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O Captain! my Captain! O Captain! my Captain!
my Captain!
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse
My Captain!," which was published first in 1865.
O Captain! my Captain!
This manuscript is a signed, dated, handwritten copy of "O Captain! My Captain!
of the verso of this manuscript is currently unavailable.; A signed, dated, handwritten copy of "O Captain
My Captain!," which was published first in 1865.; Transcribed from digital images of the original.
brn.00001xxx.00218Whitman, Walt to Hay, JohnO Captain! my Captain!
March 9, 1887poetry1 leafhandwritten; A signed, dated, handwritten copy of "O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! my Captain!
Dear Walt Whitman; I have received your books and MS. and send, with my hearty thanks, a New York check
My boy, ten years old, said to me this morning, "Have you got a book with a poem in it called 'O Captain
My Captain!' I want to learn it to speak in school."
its wings to you I am faithfully yours John Hay from John Hay, acknowledging & paying for MS of "Captain
, O Captain!"
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done.
Leave you not the little spot Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. II.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells! Rise up!
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse
But I, with silent tread, Walk the spot my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey March 10, '87 My dear John Hay, I send the two sets of books you
requested—Also a MS copy of "My Captain"—also a little Vol: containing my Dartmouth College Commencement-Poem-address
O'Connor is now in Southern California, sick— I send you my remembrance love & thanks— Walt Whitman the
The copy of "O Captain! My Captain!"
copy of the book for any purpose, I shall feel honored if you will allow me to send it to you with my
Mountain Side," "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," and "O Captain
My Captain!"
beautiful & interesting Bugle Echoes which has just reached me—Please send this to F F Browne with my
Mountain Side," "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," and "O Captain
My Captain!"
My dear Mr Whitman: Am glad to see by a morning journal that you are well enough to undertake a visit
If you have no better place to go, I shall be happy to give you shelter under my roof no 15, East Seventy-fourth
In any event, I hope to hear your address, and to see you at my office.
I am anxious to have one or more contributions from you for my Cyclopedia for which we pay ten dollars
Just as he was about to recite 'My Captain,' a little girl, the granddaughter of Edmund Clarence Stedman
acknowledged receipt of the books on March 12, 1887 and sent the poet $30 as thanks for a copy of "O Captain
My Captain!" that Whitman copied by hand and sent along with the books to the historian.
Whitman I intended writing to you to wish you good bye, but have just heard there is a chance of my seeing
Will there be any chance of my getting to speak to you?
Just as he was about to recite 'My Captain,' a little girl, the granddaughter of Edmund Clarence Stedman
Dillingham Co: New York), he writes of Whitman: "Whitman gave a few readings under my management during
Just as he was about to recite 'My Captain,' a little girl, the granddaughter of Edmund Clarence Stedman
It gives me quite a new conception of my own importance in the world.
(Give him my hearty greetings!)
Just as he was about to recite 'My Captain,' a little girl, the granddaughter of Edmund Clarence Stedman
Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) under the title "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher.
leafhandwrittenprinted; Clipping, with handwritten revisions, of a passage from A Backward Glance on My
This passage was incorporated into My Book and I, which was first published in the January 1887 issue
It is unclear whether this manuscript was created in the processes that produced My Book and I or if
here, but cold enough outside frozen hard— O why hast thou bleach'd these locks, old Time yet left my
1844, that is about "an aged man" who meets a young man and tells him, "I was like thee, once gay, my
son, — / Sweet pleasure filled my heart," but "conquering time / Hath bleached my locks so gray."
Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher, which was published first in The Cosmopolitan (October 1887) and reprinted in Good-Bye My
Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher, which was published first in The Cosmopolitan (October 1887) and reprinted in Good-Bye My
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.
Whitman, late in life, said to Horace Traubel: "[I] take my Ruskin with some qualifications."
30, 1868, Whitman informed Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Proud Music of the Storm" was "put in type for my
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
Those fellows have one virtue—they always use good paper: and on that I manage to do a good deal of my
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.
My friend of whom I spoke is in the cutlery trade, a razor grinder—very warmhearted free & natural.
I still keep the place going at Millthorpe, & spend part of my time there—and it is good to get out into
.], quite 'uneducated' in the ordinary sense... but well-grown and finely built" (Edward Carpenter, My
morning May 3 '87 Dear friend I got home all right Sunday afternoon—had a nice enjoyable ride—enjoyed my
visit anyhow—Yesterday I felt pretty dry, up in my room, & made a glass of drink, water, sugar & vinegar—from
that bottle you gave me—such as I remember my dear mother making sixty years ago, for my father, of
a hot day, when I was a little boy—& my drink went well too—Nothing new of any importance with me—Send
have just written him a few lines—told him ab't Harry —Warm & sunny to-day & I am sitting here with my
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to
You should see my old mother— spry today, gets about without a stick, not bowed, nor over much wrinkled
They all came down, my brothers, sister, & the three children, & didn't get back to bed again till past
I find my brother a very democratic individual—rather opinionated & too "damn sure" to get on easy with
The first my brother said when I showed him the Hicks picture was—"He's the man who said the blood of
Traubel he later said: "I can see defects; this forehead, for instance, is not quite as it should be; but my
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 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
Johnston on September 1, 1887, "He advertises . . . to sell my photo, with autograph.
I am not over my bad spell yet, but a little better perhaps—Harry is getting along very well —was up
Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to
Then he quietly chuckled: "But that's not surprising, not exceptional: my schemes never came to anything
Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to
deal of energy in starting off as he does, & as to his courage it is simply sublime , & he puts all my
I send all but had to separate the bundle, as it was too thick for my envelope.
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to
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
On this date Whitman recorded the following in his Commonplace Book: "To day I begin my 69th year—almost
Whitman is thinking here of the hymn sometimes called "Calvary," beginning "Come, O my heart," with the
Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to
19 Ap Harry has been here—is in good spirits & is surely getting along very well—I am getting over my
Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to
Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to
Dillingham Co: New York), he writes of Whitman: "Whitman gave a few readings under my management during
volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My
is at its height and bitter cold here now, the earth hard and covered with ice and snow, as I sit by my
God bless my British friends assisters—(from the first they have come in when most wanted)— Walt Whitman
Pall Mall Gazette devoted a great deal of space to Whitman in 1887: January 10, excerpts from "My Book
which it underwent various changes in content, title, and position until being joined with Now List to My
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
My situation is rather a pleasant one.
There are many peculiarities in New Orleans that I shall jot down at my leisure in these pages.
My health was most capital; I frequently thought indeed that I felt better than ever before in my life
After changing my boarding house, Jef. and I were, take it altogether, pretty comfortable.
My own pride was touched—and I met their conduct with equal haughtiness on my part.
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.
Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to
friend Yours rec'd & welcomed, as always—I send Vol. of "Specimen Days and Collect," with emendations—My
" by Walt Whitman for title page— making two books — But I leave the thing, (after having expressed my
one made there, if you prefer to have your own as you may—Write me often as you can—I am tied up in my
corner by paralysis, & welcome friends' letters—bad cold raw weather—my bird is singing furiously—I
She is an American, & my best friend— Walt Whitman to Ernest Rhys, 2 February 1887
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.