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I for my part will advise him to collect and send on the whole amount as soon as he possibly can.

I am sure we shall all be quite satisfied with yr plans, for my part I am pleased that you are going

arranged that my contribution be my expenses to Camden & board bills there helping you get domicilled

(I built my own study out in Ohio when a lad).

But I shan't impart my surmise to any one else.

I gave it draining regards that fixed it in my mind.

I regard it as a noble work, & am very glad of this rich honor done to my poet, & I want to congratulate

It is a fine, nay a great, work, in my opinion.

Fairchild & her husband are going to drive out & see my Cox photo, some time.

Advertiser Office Boston Aug. 1 1887 My dear Sir: I have lately been spending happy days with my dear

Returning home I found on my table the papers and pamphlet, and photogravure photograph of yourself,

The portrait hangs now on my wall in my little book-lined den at Waltham, where I may see it whenever

I raise my eyes from my work.

With profound gratitude for your especial notice of my faulty work, and a deep sense of obligation for

Gilchrist,and the intimacy which my brother,my friend Mr.

"My great anxiety about my wife lastsstill.

"My Dear Mrs.

"My Dear Mrs.

My Dear Mrs.

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.

for nearly a fortnight—John Burroughs has been here for a couple of days —he is well—nothing new in my

still & warm—I am still here in Mickle Street—at this moment sitting by the open window down stairs in my

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey May 25 '87 Thanks & God bless you my dear Sylvester Baxter for your

feeling pretty well as I write—Should most gratefully accept & most intensely enjoy a little spot of my

suggests to me impromptu—Yes I am making calculation on a conveniently plann'd & built house, & garden, of my

O'Reilly's, K's & your hands (& any others if any others there be)—putting it in a draught payable to my

order & send it to me here—I feel as if I could suit my wants & tastes better probably deciding & directing

know too how appreciatingly & gratefully I feel ab't their help—& that I appoint you to fully act as my

feeling it—H G. is here painting—Morse is here—I shall send you the copy of S D soon—Have just had my

M Oct: 7 '87 Dear friend Yours with the $12 has reach'd me safely—making $800 altogether sent me by my

late—was out driving yesterday, & shall probably go out for an hour this afternoon—Thanks to you & my

If convenient I sh'd like to have you send this note to E P G. with my thanks and regards— Walt Whitman

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey May 31 '87 My dear T W Will you do something for me, in the Press

Camden NJ April 8 1887 Yes—I hereby give my consent to the inclusion of the four pieces mentioned in

thing take its course—I do not expect the bill to pass—I am ab't as usual—a bodily wreck—did you get "My

from O'Connor —when I do I will tell you—I write or send papers or something every day —Have just had my

328 Mickle Street Camden N J April 19 '87 Am here in my little old shanty again, & every thing ab't as

usual —Stood it very well in N Y —it was a good break f'm my monotonous days here, but if I had stayed

22 '87 Have come over here on a few days' visit to R P Smith on Arch street—Enjoy all—Have just had my

dinner—Mr S is one of my kindest friends.

Rhys writes me that the Walter Scott, Eng[lish] pub's, will bring out my "Spec: Days" in one vol. & "

latest from our dear friend O'Connor not knowing whether you will get word directly —I am having one of my

bad spells, but it will probably pass over—I have had my breakfast, (two or three stewed oysters & a

piece of toast)—am sitting here in the little front room down stairs—the sun is shining & my bird singing—I

Saturday 3 P M Showery & coolish here the last two days—I am now sitting here by the open window—have had my

Camden May 6th 1887 Major Pond has written to me fixing dates for my proposed Boston (including I believe

Dillingham Co: New York), he writes of Whitman: "Whitman gave a few readings under my management during

I am well as usual—hot here—am sitting here by the window as I write—ate my dinner with appetite—heard

stupid, dont want to think or talk these times—shall emerge soon, & then define what I spoke of in my

last card—Do not come on personally as that would not facilitate—My Specimen Days in America (no "Collect

shape like "Fancies at Navesink"—that ("November Boughs") is the name, by the by, I think of giving my

summer cottage fund —(dear Boyle, if you see him say I sent my best love & thanks)—I wish you fellows

be put of course to that definite single purpose, & there I shall probably mainly live the rest of my

tainted here, five or six months in the year, at best —As I write Herbert Gilchrist is here sketching in my

oil painting—I hear from Dr Bucke often—nothing now of late from O'Connor , who is still in So: Cal—My

fill'd with gratitude & pleasure at the prospect of having a country or perhaps sea shore shanty of my

by it badly—feel it to-day worse than yet—have had a few mouthfuls of dinner, & am sitting here in my

your letter & O'C[onnor]'s to you —H[erbert] G[ilchrist] is here painting, & Morse sculping—I enclose 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

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."

have written an acc't to Dr B[ucke] wh' he will send you—I sh'd not wish any such item as that ab't my

alleged opinion of Stedman to be printed — I have no such opinion—My feeling toward S is one of good

Johnston on September 1, 1887, "He advertises . . . to sell my photo, with autograph.

—not intended to be polished off—left purposely a little in the rough— I suppose you rec'd my cards—You

Johnston on September 1, 1887, "He advertises...to sell my photo, with autograph.

Johnston on September 1, 1887, "He advertises...to sell my photo, with autograph.

Camden Nov. 29 [1887] latter p m As I write I am sitting in my big chair— cold to-day here—sunny however—Morse

I go over this afternoon at urgent request of my friend R. P.

I rec'd $600. for my N. Y. reading. Andrew Carnegie (thro' Gilder) paid $350 for his box. . . .

volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My

dinner, baked shad & champagne galore —jolly company —enjoy'd all with moderation —No, the Mr Smith, my

Costelloe, my staunchest living woman friend—the Librarian Logan Smith, (now dead) was his brother—Did

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) under the title "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher.

Street Camden New Jersey Feb. 17 '87 Every thing very much the same with me—quite completely disabled in 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

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

sill—every thing all right—had toast & a great mug of Whitman's chocolate & hot milk (excellent) for my

Camden Oct 26, '87 early P M —have just had my dinner, (plain boil'd beef, potatoes & a roast apple—all

relish'd well) & am now sitting here in my big chair in the little front room —Cold & cloudy out—looks

fuller details)—The Pall Mall Gaz. letter you speak of appears to have erased a sentence or two (showing my

of home helpers) —but even as it is I hope it doesn't bear the construction you speak of—I enclose my

Camden Nov. 19 '87 My dear Sir I tho't I w'd send you word that Mr Eakins the portrait painter of Phila

suppose will continue off & on all the current month (or more)—so you might tell Miss Wheeler —Also give my

& comfortable enough, but horribly crippled & banged up—Spirit moved me to write you a line & send my

rec'd—Major Pond has sent me $250—I came thro' Friday Evn'g in good order & am now here—Chewing on my

Dillingham Co: New York), he writes of Whitman: "Whitman gave a few readings under my management during

I have to say—Send them flat—if convenient— Hand this note to Mr Cox—I am all right—rec'd $600 for my

My best help however has come in my old age & paralysis from the Br: Islands.

into fiction of a very little amt of fact—in spirit it is altogether, & in letter mainly untrue (abt my

My income from my books, (royalties &c.) does not reach $100 a year.

I am now in my 69th year—living plainly but very comfortably in a little wooden cottage of my own, good

Best thanks and love to all my British helpers, readers & defenders. Walt Whitman to William T.

But I have not suggested or exprest expressed myself well in my book unless I have in a sort included

I was very happy—I don't think I was at my best with him—he always did most of the talking—I am sure

E. and all, I consider not only a victor-event in my life, but it is an after-explanation of so much

My dear friend, I think I know R.W.E. better than anybody else knows him—and loved him in proportion,

that "Emerson inspired the first poems of Whitman," and that Whitman had confided to him in 1860: "My