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is important, I will put down the lap tablet on which I am writing—& finish afterwards— Well I had my
& performance—was used tip top—Mrs Davis went with me—got back here ab't sunset thro' a snow storm—My
Milwaukee, Dec 11th 1887 My dear Walt I received your letter the other day—also the papers with the enclosures—and
you again Probably as Jess has told you I am poking around from place to place spending about 1/3 of my
best of it" I hope, dear Walt, that you will keep in good spirits during the bad weather—I find in my
at this point, there has been so much disaster— Could you help me ever so little—send it to Han for my
My sister has assisted me the same—to keep out of debt.
money for it, (& great good it does me, coming now)—Herbert Gilchrist is here—he is drawing & painting my
perhaps the best thing yet—Love to your father, yourself & Alys, the baby dear, & all—as I end, after my
may say that at this meeting I had the pleasure of hearing several warm admirers of yourself discuss my
Perhaps in its printed form my article may stimulate others to enquire.
gets a chance of seeing him in the seething side of affairs in this great city, but I am going to make my
I should have been glad to die before I had left such a message as my last utterance, the final outcome
But I am disobeying my doctor, who has forbidden long letters for the present.
Me, ruthless and devilish as any, that my wrists are not chain'd with iron or my ankles with iron?
do I exclude you, Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my
"The chief end I purpose to myself in all my labours," wrote Dean Swift, "is to vex the world rather
and flows": "This day, before dawn, I ascended a hill and look'd at the crowded heaven, And I said to my
And my spirit said ' No .'"
suddenly,—reservedly, with a beautiful paucity of communication, even silently, such was its effect on my
Ah dear old friend as I hear from her young lips those soul stirring words of yours my heart strings
My children join me in love and good wishes. Sincerely yours Mrs Anna M Kerr P.S.
The Herald, Boston, Aug. 2, 188 7 My dear Friend: I enclose for the cottage $285 in two checks of $50
If the idea pleases you, my friend, Jack Law, the Chelsea tile-maker, would like to send you a handsome
328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey For the present send Ernest Rhys's letters addressed here to my care
As I write, the sun is out, & my bird singing—I have had my dinner, mutton-stew, onions, & greens—(I
Camden NJ April 8 1887 Yes—I hereby give my consent to the inclusion of the four pieces mentioned in
Camden Aug. 11, 1887 Davis's report of me and my talk, in re the Swinburne article, is very cute and
328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey Dec. 28 '87 Thanks, my dear friend, for your kind letter & (Christmas
As I write the mocking-bird is singing over the way, & my canary—Love to A and L — Walt Whitman Walt
328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey June 14 '87 Dear S E C I wish to send you my special deep-felt personal
328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey May 11 '87 I send today by mail—same address as this—my Volume 'Leaves
Aug 30 '87 I remain anchor'd here in my big chair—Have you read the Bacon-Shakspere résumé in the last
328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey April 18 1887> Dear Sir Yours of 16th with $250 (for my lecture of
Camden Wednesday 12:40 pm Go to New York this afternoon to deliver my lecture commemorative of "Death
Y. to speak my piece [Lincoln Lecture] April 14.
328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey Sept: 14 '87 I am ab't as usual—have just had my dinner, a slice
Whitman, late in life, said to Horace Traubel: "[I] take my Ruskin with some qualifications."
Camden April 16 '87 By oversight I left a book "Poets of America," by E C Stedman —in my room in the
Camden April 13 12:40 P M Am middling well—go this afternoon to New York, to deliver my lecture commemorative
I look back upon my visit to the States with great pleasure—it is a lovely country—and I remember the
Please give my very kind regards to Mrs. Davis & With love to Walt. Herbert H.
Camden June 13 '87 Am pretty well to-day (after being under the weather the past week)—Nothing new in my
July 11, '87 I went off yesterday on a ten-mile drive to Glendale, to my friends the Staffords' house
Dr Johnston's letter & the pictures & birthday gift have safely reach'd me, & thank you indeed from my
two "Leaves" in public —pleasant ride there & back in carriage—was paid—Love to dear J[essie] —O how my
Y. to deliver my piece April 14th. Dr. and Mrs.
you—but I am disabled & unwell more than half the time & cannot be relied on—Do not for the present put my
I am well as usual—hot here—am sitting here by the window as I write—ate my dinner with appetite—heard
& comfortable enough, but horribly crippled & banged up—Spirit moved me to write you a line & send my
receipt—I continue ab't half and half in feeling & health —Mrs: G. says Ed is well—I rec'd a note from my
& comfortable enough, but horribly crippled & banged up—Spirit moved me to write you a line & send my
I twice questioned my informer before I could believe it."
"He flung it down at my door, as though the fellow meant some injury: an Italian would have handled it
I remember Thoreau saying once, when walking with him in my favourite favorite Brooklyn—"What is there
My friends laugh, and say I am getting Conservative—but I am tired of mock radicalism.'
"Well, honour honor is the subject of my story," —was the commencement of a favourite speech with him
If convenient I sh'd like to have you send this note to E P G. with my thanks and regards— Walt Whitman
fill'd with gratitude & pleasure at the prospect of having a country or perhaps sea shore shanty of my
My dear Whitman, I am delighted that you liked Miss Phelps's story so well.
I have to say—Send them flat—if convenient— Hand this note to Mr Cox—I am all right—rec'd $600 for my
evening's readings, skeletonized in the enclosed slip, were given by an ardent lover of both of us—my
May 21 - 87 My dear Mr.
sincerely—I am living here comfortably enough, but a paralytic bodily—As I write I sit by the open window of my
morning (through Gilder ) a check from Andrew Carnegie for $350 for his box last Thursday night—making my
Saturday 3 P M Showery & coolish here the last two days—I am now sitting here by the open window—have had my
O'C[onnor] is in Wash'n, very poorly, but have not got word thence of his arrival —I am just going to my
June 21 —and now a second copy same—write me a line please to say whether they reach you safely—I send my
over, in a very kind & good letter—enclosing some printed slips from paper—one written by you ab't my
relics I think may be worth while—for you —Fine sunny weather here to day, & I have been out in it with my
spell—Ab't as usual with me—No sight of Rhys yet—the artist Eakin of Phila: comes off & on painting my