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Conversations with Walt Whitman: My First Visit MY FIRST VISIT.
S ADAKICHI : "My father is a German, but my mother was a Japanese and I was born in Japan."
ONE of my first visits, after I had returned to Philadelphia from my first European trip, was to the
In my books, in my prose as well as my poetry are many knots to untie."
my captain' with which he generally concluded.
awaiting the action of the Executive upon his sentence,"— and your letter of May 4, 1869, again calling my
the important and difficult questions which may arise upon the case, I think it sufficient to express my
I tell you it's an impossibility to me; why, my whole income from my books during a recent half-year
its eight periods of growth, "hitches," he calls them, he completes them with the annex, "Good-bye my
Whispers of Heavenly Death" cannot be an irreverent person; the impassioned "prayer"— "That Thou, O God, my
For that, O God, be it my latest word, here on my knees, Old, poor, and paralyzed, I thank Thee....
When this is commented upon he laughingly says, "Oh, yes, my friends often tell me there is a book called