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loc.04657xxx.00948[To-day completes my three-score-and]1889prosepoetry1 leafprintedhandwritten; Printer's
[To-day completes my three-score-and]
Echoes cluster, first published in Lippincott's Magazine 47 (March 1891) and then reprinted in Good-bye My
The writing on the verso (not in Whitman's hand) makes reference to Good-Bye My Fancy and to Sounds of
the verso (not in Whitman's hand) makes reference to the title of this poem, as well as to Good-Bye My
The poem was retitled To the Pending Year for its inclusion in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) Have I no word
22tex.00036xxx.00384MY 71st YEARMY 71st YEAR1889poetry1 leafproof with revisions; Corrected proof of My
MY 71st YEAR
It later appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and, as part of the Good-Bye my Fancy annex, in the so-called
which was published in Lippincott's Magazine as To the Sunset Breeze in December 1890, in Good-Bye My
Fancy (1891) and, as part of the Good-Bye my Fancy annex, in the so-called deathbed edition of Leaves
Retitled To the Pending Year, it was included in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and, as part of the Good-Bye
my Fancy annex, in the so-called deathbed edition of Leaves of Grass (1891–92).
ihm.00002xxx.00218O Captain! My Captain!
1889-1890poetry1 leafhandwritten; A manuscript copy of O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! My Captain!
O Captain! My Captain!
I trace my highest and best thoughts and feelings to your poems.
Camden Evn'g: Jan: 1 '89 My best loving wishes for the New Year to you and William —O if deepest wishes
, though slowly—I & many are looking more than he knows toward W's propects—Best love & sympathy to my
Whitman originally included the poem in his 1891 manuscript for the Good-Bye My Fancy annex to Leaves
"After completing my poems," then, writes Mr.
"That I have not gain'd the acceptance of my own time; that from a worldly and business point of view
I had my choice when I commenced.
"The best comfort of the whole business is that I have had my say entirely my own way—the value thereof
No one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance."
furnished me by the printer after all, & I will send you 15 copies —The cards in the little envelope are my
Tom H. comes every day—my brother George also—my sister Lou has just visited me this mn'g—Y'r letter
treatment applied to himself—it is autobiographic of course—pathologic— It grows cloudy & cooler—have had my
And in my own day and maturity, my eyes have seen and ears heard, Lincoln, Grant and Emerson, and my
I have put my name with pen and ink with my own hand in the present volume.
I felt it all as positively then in my young days as I do now in my old ones: to formulate a poem whose
, and has been the comfort of my life since it was originally commenced.
Then the simile of my friend, John Burroughs, is entirely true.
Walt Whitman: My dear Sir, I take the liberty of sending you in the same mail with this, a little pamphlet
Should it prove so, my object will then be attained.
Reprinted under the new title "To the Pending Year" in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is
Camden New Jersey Evn'g Jan: 5 '89 I want to send at once my brief thanks & appreciation of y'r notice
I am paying a visit—it is a vacation—to Benjamin Jowett, the Head of my college, a venerable and dreadful
It makes one realize how much your generation—my father's generation—has done for progress, I only hope
My father is extremely well, and enjoying life. Mrs.
Your card of the 24th came two days ago, not a little to my relief.
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
periodicals, and I would not myself encroach on the space devoted to the work of other contributors; but my
Wicklow My dear Walt I have to tell you that towards the end of December I sent back to the German publisher
Democracy To a Boy of the West Doubt of Appearances Give me the Sun To one about to die (KK) That Shadow My
Who Learns my Lesson complete What am I— Square Deific. O Poverty, wincings—.
Please accept my best wishes that the year we have entered upon may bring to you much calm peacefulness
I am, my dear sir, yours very truly and gratefully, Mary Ashley Mary Ashley to Walt Whitman, 7 January
These days I seem to need something: seem to be looking for something—feeling towards it: something my
Camden Jan. 8, 1889 Tom, if you have it and you can, I wish you w'd fill my bottle again with that Sherry
trust you are (even if "very very slowly") gaining and am glad to have you say that you believe in my
sketch of Elias Hicks is very pleasant to see, as like yourself I am proud of having Friends among my
I am going to send you a pamphlet which has in it a sketch of William Grimm by my best friend and fellow-worker
for I should like to see you in the flesh, but that is in the hands of the powers, I do not know how my
But I have no right to trouble you with myself or my concerns and I will stop here wishing you the best
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
to see them—I wrote to you to write & confer with him (R) —but have no word f'm you—Did you receive my
this time—I have nothing from R. now for a long, long while (with that exception)— I am laid up in my
sick room—essentially the sixth recurrence of my war paralysis—& have been (two or three spells serious
feeble, cannot get across the room without assistance—have a nurse, a good, strong Canadian young man—my
the same as hitherto—have mean time bro't out "November Boughs," 140 pages, & a big Vol. 900 pages, my
Whitman's poem "My 71st Year" was published in Century Illustrated Magazine in November 1889.
I am wanting to envelope up & send some copies by Oceanic Express of my "Complete Works," a big 900 page
(one copy for you), all directed to my friend R.
, London—will send you word when I do so—also wish you to give me address of Misses Ford (give them my
love) to whom I send a copy in same package—As I finish I am comfortable—sitting in my big chair here
length (with many interpolations) in The Commonplace-Book: "A very bad (never so bad before) lapse of my
payment (to J M Shoemaker & Co. bankers) they spoke of the paid original draft, & I gave the Camden bank my
It forms the staple for a number of my lectures on the literature of Democracy.
Dear Walt— Just a line as you have been much in my thoughts lately.
Sharpe, my old harper friend that I told you of, died a few days ago—"very quiet & gentle" says his son
The Money Order is sent in my name. Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 13 January [1889]
Received from Thomas Donaldson Ten Dollars for books— Walt Whitman Dear TD I am here imprison'd yet in my
I have a copy of my big 900 Vol.
way: but as to writing about novelists, novels, English, American, any other—God help me: I can't see my
way to it . . . what he proposes is out of my line . . .
its Dantesque horror, and then, brooding over brotherhood, union, democracy, sang 'Leaves of Grass,' 'My
Captain,' 'Calamus,' and all that me quoque which forms the essential germ of the Whitman gospel: egotism
I always forget to say that while several times in my MS I seem to have ignored yr notes, in reality
Camden Jan: 22 '89 Still keep up & read & write ab't the same—but remain cribb'd in my room.
So you see 'tout va bien" with my collection which bids fair to be one day the envy of millionaires.
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
has been & may be again—think of you every day as we all do—many inquiries ab't you—have a big Vol (my
. * "No one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance, or as aiming
Leaves of Grass has been chiefly the outcropping of my own emotional and other personal nature—an attempt
day, there can be no such thing as a long poem, fascinated him: "The same thought had been haunting my
flashes of lightning, with the emotional depths it sounded and arous'd (of course, I don't mean in my
"I round and finish little, if anything; and could not, consistently with my scheme.
length (with many interpolations) in The Commonplace-Book: "A very bad (never so bad before) lapse of my
payment (to J M Shoemaker & Co. bankers) they spoke of the paid original draft, & I gave the Camden bank my
the pressure is so great that I can't get the moment to sit down, for as yet I am the only nurse, & my
I try to keep my courage up, & not to look ahead more than I must.
Your "November Boughs" has been my companion during the last week.
I shall try to obtain it through my London bookseller.
Each time I have attempted to do so, I have quailed before my own inadequacy to grapple with the theme
It took me several days to absorb it and make my extracts &c.
(I fear my digestion must be poor to-night judging from the tone of the foregoing!)
I keep toiling away kicking my MS into shape, adding touches &c &c W S Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy
but must send it sure before long—he has made & sent me a fragmentary trans: of part that I have had my
is Edw'd Carpenter's, as you will see —( Nov: B is more likely to be read and take than any other of my
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
Camden Evn'g Jan 31 '89 Have had a favorable day in my condition—fine sunny pleasantly cool weather—hope
Nor for myself—my own rebellious self in thee?
Had my breakfast & relish'd it—three or four hot stew'd oysters, a stout slice of toasted Graham bread
, & a mug of coffee— My housekeeper Mrs: Davis is compell'd to be temporarily absent these two days &
Ed my nurse gets my breakfast & gets it very well.
often bless the Lord & congratulate myself that things are as well with me as they are—that I retain my
mentality intact—that I have put my literary stuff in final form—that I have a few (but sufficient)
import of his first book ("without yielding an inch, the working-man and working-woman were to be in my
substantial volume—not that I am overwhelmed or even entirely satisfied by it, but as I had not put my
"The sea-wind & the sea Made all my soul in me A song for ever!"
by the way, to say that a note has come to say a package (of portraits presumably) from you, awaits my
I shall be able now to get on with my article for the 'Scottish Art Review' as soon as I am back in town
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my