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you, but I have a bad habit of putting off things—as you know, & week after week slips by & accuses my

This remissness is very much of a part with the rest of my story of late.

Opposite my window the birds kick up a great row in the branches, as they discuss the delicate question

Dec. 29, 1890 My Dear Friend, Thinking of you and wondering how your Christmas was spent has tempted

Please accept my thanks for the $2 which you sent the children.

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

It was included without the note in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital

Walt Whitman, My dear Sir: I am preparing a series of letters for the above newspapers on How to Reach

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

explained that while I was away he 'got a very raspy note from Oldach practically asking that I take my

I am now quite used to my new situation, and my opinion, too, is that such a change of base will be something

I was poor, unfit for journalistic work and, nevertheless, wanted to free my intellectual life from pecuniary

In this way I secured my "bread and butter," and, now, can set to my intellectual task; I can read, write

I wish you, dear Walt, a bright and happy new year; be assured of all my love Gabriel Sarrazin see note

Noumeáa Nouvelle-Calédonie (Colonies Françaises) 3/7 1890 Dear Walt, an important event took place in my

As I have no fortune whatever, and journalism does not suit my temper, I obtained a situation in our

My opinion, too, is that Bruno is one of the martyrs of free thought, one of our martyrs, and one of

On my arrival here I suffered from this Oceanian climate, but am getting better each day and will, no

Morris by this very post; be assured, dear Walt, of all my love Gabriel Sarrazin My address is as follows

My dear Sir. There lies before me, as I write, a copy of "Brother Johnathan" Vol 1.

I go straight to my subject. Do not call me an autograph fiend.

your leisure, write me out on good paper, one side only, so that I may frame it with your portrait for my

Thursday Feby, 13 189 0 Dear Walt Whitman During my travels so far away from home; I have often thought

of writing you, just walk as once before into your grand presence & explain the interesting parts of my

occasionally (as while here) with an $800.00 order, I continue west to Denver & Leadville and upon my

long confinement which in my case & very many others was a gross injustice upon free men I enjoy the

varied & grand sight now ever so much and while Beer & music is yet one of my standards & enjoyed by

published in Have We a National Literature, (North American Review, 152, March 1891), and in Good-bye My

My friend Mr Stedman tells me that he thinks you would allow me to call on you.

Since I left England it has been my greatest wish to have the great pleasure of seeing you that I hope

On the verso is a note in Whitman's hand reading "to my 2d & last Annex for L of G."

The mere reading from some of your pages serving to open the eyes of my hearers.

I am perfectly certain that this will be my spring message as long as you stay here with us.— As for

Please give my regards to Traubel and other friends.

In talking with Thomas Sergeant Perry last night we fell to discussing your work, and to my delight I

Howells and he were two of my most honored friends. Hamlin Garland to Walt Whitman, 20 April 1890

John's Wood London N.W. 16 June 1890 My dear Walt Whitman, The second copy of "November Boughs" reached

Miss Louisa Drewry, the lady whose paper I told you of in my last, called here yesterday to see the various

London 24 Sept. 1890 Dear Walt Whitman, Accept my thanks for your "rejoinder" and the newspaper that

John's Wood London, N.W. 4 June 1890 My dear Walt Whitman, I have received from you lately "The Conservator

" with Bucke's little article, a newspaper with a review of my Keats, your letter of 22 May, and the

you wish to keep a check on the agents—it was 7s/6d (not very dear, I think)—but this is of course my

Now they have made this reissue without my knowledge, & the conclusion of the article on you has been

You might put my name in it & just send a line on a postcard to let me know the cost.

I am one of these fellows who wish to know what you think of my productions.

perhaps, you being an old veteran at it and knowing what is and what is not, you would kindly grant my

You will find on perusing the verses that I am a little melancholy in my tone, much more so than you.

Life and Death Dance on fair Life, yet a short while Will I allow thee to exist; But soon I'll cast my

that are to come Be they as pure as miry Hell is lewd, Or sunk in sin as black as God is good, Must to my

Dear Sir, I have sent you by this mail a little book of verses as a slight token of my Esteem.

Whitman— I have taken so much pleasure of late in re-reading your work that I would not render my spiritual

I have read "Pioneers, O Pioneers" over and over again to my many friends, who study not books but life

I have your picture in my room, and I never see it or take up your book without feeling what a glorious

I send you a few poems of my own. I shall be glad if they please you.

I am not a person that makes literary visits, but I wish that I could meet you this summer, on my return

My Dear Mr.

Jeff has been a very great blow to me personally, as for a good many years I looked upon him as one of my

and I have learned to lean upon him in so many ways that I feel as though a prop were taken out of my

I am sorry to have to write you a machine letter now, but my crippled arm makes this a necessity.

Still I wish to say how much I have enjoyed all things here & how much I regret to have to make my stay

I read Doctor my essay ( N.E. Mag. ) Sunday night.

He set me on my feet with certain improvements in phraseology, on the point of your Washington sickness

He thinks your & my terminology when we get off on that field lamentable if not laughable.

This is a draft of the essay Whitman later published as American National Literature in Good-Bye My Fancy

able to see you while at your house last thursday I concludet concluded to write and state to you that my

Studio 2 W. 14 th st New York Febr. 12 90 My dear sir I have delivered your book to Mr. Bancroft.

I take the pleasure to mail to you some proofs of my drawings and ask you to accept them with my kindest

Thanking you for your kindness at the occasion of my visit to you, and wishing you good health I am most

For the month of July my address is as above.

winter Were you pleased with the article and portrait of yourself which appeared in the sixth volume of my

not happen to have seen the work, I will take pleasure in sending you the sketch and illustration on my

Feb 21st 1890 To / Walt man Eq My Dear Sir I apologize heartily for my delay in replying to your kind

the page of "poemets" 'old age echoes' —which you were so good as to offer me at the price of £20— My

—& secondly my unwillingness to do the unwelcome & ungracious thing implied in my being unable to avail

I am so extremely sorry not to see my way to utilizing them for my Review & I accordingly return herewith

of four short poems, appeared in Lippincott's Magazine in March 1891 and were reprinted in Goodbye My

you will be dined and wined on your next May-day (Birthday—) We are all reasonably well save Marrie (my

Whitman found the visitor interesting but too effusive: "My main objection to him, if objection at all

My sister the wife of Rev Dr Shields of Bristol is very very ill— She is one of the noblest and best

It is my sister Sallie. W m R.

I spent 3 days in Yorkshire last week—so ending my holiday.

And so,—though I have nothing else to write about,—I want to send you a line or two again to express my

loving sympathy with you and my best wishes.

room which D J's description & photographs have made so familiar—solitary and ill—It reminds me of my

mother's condition in her last years—lame, suffering & much alone—and my heart goes out to you like

My cordial thanks to you.— D r Johnston has already told you of the open air meeting held by our friends

I am just beginning my holidays (long needed) & your book accompanies me in all my rambles.

blessed hours of sacred, vital communion with the wordless divine Spirit that informs all things and with my

Your name will be a sufficient warrant for my intruding upon his Alpine solitude and 7 months winter—in

And my interest in him was freshened only 3 months ago by an excellent article in the "Atlantic."

"Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and was reprinted in Good-Bye My

Your great kindness—most fatherly, most tender—to D r Johnston & myself stirs my heart more deeply than

Thanks to you from my heart—and God bless you!

The "Rejoinder" was later reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) (see Prose Works 1892, Volume 2: Collect

—It has " grown " upon me very much, and authenticates itself, to my mind, more and more, as a true characteristic

I have glanced them over & find much to stir my appetite. But I must not write more now.

But my debt of gratitude to you, through your writing, is so great that I could not refuse the opportunity

For you have been literally an inspiration in my life.

March 8 .90 My dear dear .

I am today sending back proof sheets of my new book " To the Czar ." I hope to tear his bowels out.

Am Hof, Davos Platz, Switzerland August 3 1890 My dear Master I received your card of July 20 in due

But it was then too late to alter the reference in my own essay on "Democratic Art" w. had been printed

I hope to have a second edition of my "Essays Speculative & Suggestive" (for only 750 copies were printed

For my own part, after mature deliberation, I hold that the present laws of France & Italy are right

It has not infrequently occurred to me among my English friends to hear your "Calamus" objected to, as

"A monument to outlast bronze," comes from the first line of Horace's Ode 3.30: My Monuument.

Sept: 5. 1890 My dear Master I am sincerely obliged to you for your letter of August 19.

With the explanation you have placed in my hands, in which you give me liberty to use, I can speak with

The conclusion reached is, to my mind, in every way satisfactory.

either by your detractors or by the partizans of some vicious crankiness—sets me quite at ease as to my

I will tell my bookseller in London to send you a copy of the "Contemporary" in which there is an essay

Whitman's "Rejoinder" was also reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (Prose Works 1892, Volume 2: Collect and

Feb. 27, 1890 Dear Walt: Here I am back from Pokeepsie Poughkeepsie in my little study to-night with

But few of my friends have visited me here, but here I sit by my open fire & have long long thoughts

How many times have I planted you there in my big chair by the window, or here in front of the open fire

Give him my love if you write him. I think I told you we were housekeeping in for the winter.

My winter has been flat stale & unprofitable.

We have moved back here from Po'keepsie Poughkeepsie & I am very busy in my farm & fairly happy.

I am glad you are pleased with my idea of Ingersoll lecturing. It will be a great event.

"Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and was reprinted in Good-Bye My

(choice persons,) one third women (Proceeds to me $869.45)—I went over, was wheeled on the stage in my

Sept 22/90 Dear Walt Reading your letter over again—let me say—There was no solicitation whatever on my

"Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and was reprinted in Good-Bye My

(choice persons,) one third women (Proceeds to me $869.45)—I went over, was wheeled on the stage in my

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

(choice persons,) one third women (Proceeds to me $869.45)—I went over, was wheeled on the stage in my

"Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and was reprinted in Good-Bye My

Nice, France, Jan. 16, 1890 My Dear Walt— I am still here an invalid—nervous prostration.— To you, far

Whitman included the poem in his late collection Good-Bye My Fancy, 1891–1892; the poems in that book

London England, May 26 / 90 My Dear Walt— I am here from Rome, and I see in the papers here your lines

. | 7 | My 27 | 90 | N.; Paid | G | All; New York | Jun 4 | ; Camden N.J. | Jun | 6 A M | 1890 | Rec'd

Edinburgh, Scotland, July 31, 1890 My Dear Walt— Again I salute you.

I wish I had been at the birth-day fest, and heard the beauteous words of my friend Bob.

"Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and was reprinted in Good-Bye My