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Give my love to Dr. B.
My Dear W Whitman, Yr letter & papers both rec'd with thanks.
My article is scientific , I even reverently analyze Shakespeare's technique & prove that he inclined
I had been reserving this piece of work until I moved into my new house.
I sent my article on poetry to the Century. They ordered an article on E.E. Hale, wh.
Dont get down-hearted, my boy, say I! We read yr strong verse in November Century.
Whitman's poem "My 71st Year" was published in the November 1889 issue of Century Illustrated Monthly
My Whittier is in Funk & Wagnall's safe & is highly complimented by the editor of the series.
volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My
Just as my MS pkg was consigned to steamer Roman of the Warren Line, comes crawling along—like a fly
Commemoration Ode," which has often, since its publication, been contrasted with Whitman's own tribute, "O Captain
My Captain!"
That wonderful title page I look at & look at, & can't seem to get dovetailed into my mind.
My day had a sad ending.
Please give my very special congratulations to Traubel anent this big volume (for I suppose he helped
And give my regards to your Canadian nurse-friend.
I was quite amused to see my letter about the G.A.R. in the Camden paper —not amused I mean but willing
Whitman, late in life, said to Horace Traubel: "[I] take my Ruskin with some qualifications."
The "Rejoinder" was later reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) (see Prose Works 1892, Volume 2: Collect
Near the end of the essay, Whitman writes: "My own opinion has long been, that for New World service
Tenn was the bright particular star of my youth & early manhood—is a man who makes this dull earth godlike
Eve (I free from the gnarring of the finite at my heels).
Kennedy is referring to the proofs for Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was Whitman's last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short prose works
Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy 2d Annex" to Leaves of Grass
For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman
Sunset Breeze," which was first published in Lippincott's in December 1890 and reprinted in Good-Bye My
I always forget to say that while several times in my MS I seem to have ignored yr notes, in reality
Dear Poet: I hope you dont think my love and thought of W. W the less for my not writing oftener.
But never mind, each stage of life has its glories) My sister from Ohio is with us today.
Accept my hearty love & affectionate good wishes.
Commemoration Ode," which has often, since its publication, been contrasted with Whitman's own tribute, "O Captain
My Captain!" For further information on Whitman's views of Lowell, see William A.
Belmont Mass Oct 20 '88 My dear W.W.
Mrs K. is in Boston at a Symphony Concert and a precious ½ hour for my soul being at my disposal I feel
We are rolling out 90–100 books at once, & every page must pass under my eye twice & receive my fecit
before it goes out,—my guarantee.
I must stop & copy a page or so (my daily stint) of my Whitman bibliography (sawdusty job rather, but
It tickles my diaphragm to see you run huge subsoil prairie plough so deep down under the feet of the
My heart, at least, swells with gladness & pride on account of honors this winter.
I can't for my poor self at any rate.
Wilson of Glasgow, encouraging me to go on & get subscribers for my "Walt Whitman,"— saying that I may
you be willing (I hardly dare to ask it) to send me for two yr book of addresses (sent by Express at my
(I keep up my bibliogr. record always (in the "Whitman")] I made a trip to the art museum recently to
Baxter has gone to Arizona, & left bust in my care.
Kennedy My idea is to charge $5. or a guinea for the vol. & print it in good style.
My Dear Friend: I get a few good letters on my little essay on the poets.
Belmont Mass Dec 2 '85 My Dear Whitman— Maugre yr your wholesome advice, (exc. that I put in a page on
you & Hugo—parallelism of poetic-technique en-avant freshness &c) I have done gone & published my essay
I set up every stick of it mesilf indade , & corrected my proofs ( wh. which I'll have you know) were
Well, I have learned just enough to set up this & my poems (Heaven bless the mark—"poems" quotha,—I wd'nt
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
Return at my expense by ditto. Take yr your time. I am dissatisfied with the thing.
But in this case I feel particularly blue—after all my rooster-crowing—for anything put beside writing
This is one of the pleasant evenings when my good mother used to say "How good the dear Father is to
My mind is fallow now, but I suppose it is for the best.
I hardly know my old self as seen in my old Index articles. However, Sursum! Resurgam! Forward!
Belmont Mass April 19. '86 My Dear Poet: Your postal rec'd. received I have completed (rough finish)
my seven chapters on you.
It is the most scholarly, fiery, and heavy-artillery piece of work I have yet done; took all my strength
I have got in my cellar, Walt, about 50 bottles of elderberry cordial—fine, smacky, made by myself last
My grand poet, my friend Yours as ever W.S. Kennedy How's the pony? Paper also!! good!
I go now & get a wrap up: I have not given up, & never shall the pub. of my apotheosis of W.W.
It just meets my ideal. A book is doubled in value by pocket-form. My cousin has gone.
I send you the Transcript with my notice of November Boughs —hastily pencil-scrawled bet between jobs
on my proof desk.
I asked Traubel to tell you that Wilson (Glaswegian) had written me my book. cordially yrs yours W.S.Kennedy
You dear (young) old F'ellow: — I was just feeling to-day a lack in my soul—a gap—an idea that you had
I continue at my typographical business Hope I hear from Paisley in a fortnight goodnight & love—gloomy
Robert Browning (1812–1889), known for his dramatic monologues, including "Porphyria's Lover" and "My
30, 1868, Whitman informed Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Proud Music of the Storm" was "put in type for my
My Dear Whitman,— Don't you thik think it would be well for you to give me a line to Prof.
Dowden, telling him that you have read the bibliography of my forthcoming book, and that you think you
I am afraid they will be but dilatory in taking hold of the matter on my request alone,.
For my part, I dislike to ask anyone for to serve as go-between, but you seemed to think it would be
My roses are superb; have pitched a tent in my yard. Aff. Affectionately W. S. Kennedy.
I mean give him my regards. & to Dr. B. whose last I shall answer soon W. S. K.
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 send you by this mail my paper—"The New Ars Poetica" I want you to read it, &, if you think best, ask
strange feeling of the educative and epoch-making nature of your style (poetical); & I am confident that my
What do you think of my performance? I wish the libret might even be bound.
84 My Dear Mr.
that—well, it is no blemish of course in magnificent strain of elemental music, But you might consider my
The "Rejoinder" was later reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) (see Prose Works 1892, Volume 2: Collect
Near the end of the essay, Whitman writes: "My own opinion has long been, that for New World service
Belmont Sept 15 '89 (Sunday afternoon) Dear Walt:— I never meant my last poor postal to be the answer
to write the bk I told you of, I must bore you with a letter—just to say how'd'e, & to tell you that my
staunch little dame, my brave frau kin is going to make a little visiting tour, & will some day make
for my freedom! [Here I cut a caper] Now for six weeks of thought . I wrote to F.
My gloire di Dijon rose has grown 12 feet high in many rigorous shoots.
It is worth all of my book put together.
I also send you per express paid a couple of jars of my nice currant jam put up by myself fr fruit raised
Grant, the General's father, addressed to my great uncle Granger, (Judge William G. of Ohio very wealthy
Jesse came very near marrying my uncle's sister he says. I may publish the letter. So keep mum .
volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My
Whitman has written at the bottom of the page in blue pencil: "I rec'd the currants—wh' I eat with my
My imagination is too vivid. I have to throw him aside. W. S. K.
In his letter to me I alluded to in my letter of this date to you, O'C says, "I sincerely hope no memoir
As I sit here looking up Brattle Square Cambridge from my proof-room window, the gay elastic children
He asked what had become of my article. Paper (Camden) Thanks aff affectionately W.S. Kennedy.
It is firstrate I did make that condition in my letters to Gardner —i.e. that my corrections on proofs
O'C in my hand at arm's length for several minutes trying to realize its import.
My regret is keen that I did not meet our noble & brilliant friend.
I wish you know the depth of my own feeling the tumultuous emotional depths—sort of despair—stirred up
My days are passed in the harrowing uproar of a great printing estab. & it is hard for me to find a soul-hour
O'C dead—if one rightly regarded it—just as much in harmony with the scene as my part of the life-throbbing
By coming on I could bring my MS with me, & stay three days at least.
I have already made out a long one—going over all my scraps & records for the purpose Our brilliant young
Will send you my Herald article on him when it appears.
This will excuse my dilatoriness as a correspondent) Rhys & I go up to lunch with Sanborn Friday—Rhys
Nothing delights me more & my limitations are so many.
But my chief reliance is on my pen at present.
In the mean time, calmly, toilingly, ohne hast, ohne rast, working away on my literary chef-d-oeuvre,
"Whitman, the Poet of Humanity,"—here in my idyllic, noiseless home-cottage.
Wish I cd could send you some of the pinks, accept my love instead in return for yours, as something
You renovate & cheerify my ethical nature every time I visit you. WS Kennedy.
Your other touches give accuracy to my over-statements.
Did you see my snow study "Tumultuous Privacy, last monday in Transcript p. 6?
LIPPINCOTT'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE Philadelphia, Sept 16th. 188 6 My dear Sir: Your article, "My Book and
I have been purposing to call over to see you, but my days are pretty well engaged and I am afraid of
thought of your cordial invitation to me to write to you, but I have waited until I have got settled into my
Without much trouble I found a sunny room in Cambridge and having at last got my books within reach I
It is pleasant to be my own master again, and to be able, for the present at least, to follow my inclinations
—But I must stop, first, because you may find my garrulity tedious, and second, because the clocks have
Commemoration Ode," which has often, since its publication, been contrasted with Whitman's own tribute, "O Captain
My Captain!" For further information on Whitman's views of Lowell, see William A.
I have lent my copy to others.
Now you may call me a fool for my request, but if you will comply with it, I shall be just as well satisfied
I wish to frame it, to hang in my room, in company with a autograph of Charles Mackay, another of my
short & if you can register the parcel so as to render safer its receipt by me, pray do so & increase my
10 th 89 O Good Gray Poet, When I read the notes on your life made by Ernest Rhys the tears came to my
feeling of the boundlessness of the universe, of the greatness of a man—perhaps, only perhaps, it may be my
glory to help others to "justify" your work; it surely is my heart's desire.
My excuse for writing you is the sending of a book; a first utterance, called "Voices & Undertones"—it
"Walt Whitman" My dear Sir On Oct 12th (Discovery day falls this year on Sunday) our Pan Republic Congress
have just returned home last eve[ning] from Washington, being there to see about getting the body of 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
I received your book some three weeks ago when I was preparing for my half yearly examinations and as