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February 15, 1889]), and claimed "it is me, me, unformed, undeveloped—hits off phases not common in my
Is this my sorry face? I am not sorry—I am glad—for the world."
photo in 1889 that Whitman explained what he saw to be the difficulty of photographing him properly: "my
red, florid, blooded complexion—my gray dull eyes—don't consort well together: they require different
Startle, strikingness, brilliancy, are not factors in my appearance—not a touch of them.
As for me I think the greatest aid is in my insouciance—my utter indifference: my going as if it meant
He called my attention to the dent in the hat.
It reads:328 Mickle StreetCamden New Jersey Sept. 13 Evn’gCox’s photos: came today & I have written my
is a head with hat on, the photo marked No 3—the pictures with the children come out first-rate—Give my
mouldering.When a friend asked about the poem, shortly after its publication, Whitman admitted: “That’s me—that’s my
It reads:328 Mickle StreetCamden New Jersey Sept. 13 Evn’gCox’s photos: came today & I have written my
is a head with hat on, the photo marked No 3—the pictures with the children come out first-rate—Give my
mouldering.When a friend asked about the poem, shortly after its publication, Whitman admitted: “That’s me—that’s my
It reads:328 Mickle StreetCamden New Jersey Sept. 13 Evn’gCox’s photos: came today & I have written my
is a head with hat on, the photo marked No 3—the pictures with the children come out first-rate—Give my
mouldering.When a friend asked about the poem, shortly after its publication, Whitman admitted: “That’s me—that’s my
It reads:328 Mickle StreetCamden New Jersey Sept. 13 Evn’gCox’s photos: came today & I have written my
is a head with hat on, the photo marked No 3—the pictures with the children come out first-rate—Give my
mouldering.When a friend asked about the poem, shortly after its publication, Whitman admitted: “That’s me—that’s my
he wrote: "O I must not close without telling you the highly important intelligence that I have cut my
hair & beard—since the event, Rosecrans, Charleston, &c &c have among my acquaintances been hardly mentioned
Similarly, he wrote to Hugo Fritsch: "I have cut my beard short, & hair ditto: (all my acquaintances
In general, attire became more formal and tended toward dark, somber colors (see Reynolds, "'My Book
(See Ted Genoways, "'Scented herbage of my breast': Whitman's Chest Hair and the Frontispiece to the
stove—an edge suspicioning itself out—was one of the Fredricks (N.Y.) portraits of which—W. seeing it in my
Whitman went on to guess that the photograph “must be 12 or 15 years old—yes, taken after my sickness
, on one of my trips to New York.”
Whitman said this photo was "one of the best . . . my mother's favorite picture of me" (Horace Traubel
Looking at it another time, Whitman mused, "That was my prime—that was the period of my power—of endurance
Indeed, all through those years—that period—I was at my best—physically at my best, mentally, every way
labeled it "Walt Whitman in his 70th year," and claimed "the picture is in the nature of a surprise: my
Whitman inscribed this photograph: "My 71st year arrives: the fifteen past months nearly all illness
work—smoothing out the irregularities, wrinkles, and what they consider defects in a person's face—but, at my
(See Ted Genoways, "'Scented herbage of my breast': Whitman's Chest Hair and the Frontispiece to the
little Harry . . . is a fine, good bright child, not very rugged, but gets along very well—I take him in my
"Uncle Walt," and he found them "model children lively & free & children" who "form a great part of my
little Harry . . . is a fine, good bright child, not very rugged, but gets along very well—I take him in my
"Uncle Walt," and he found them "model children lively & free & children" who "form a great part of my
two or three days—so on: we were quite thick then: thick: when I had money it was as freely Bill's as my
two or three days—so on: we were quite thick then: thick: when I had money it was as freely Bill's as my
Dear son, how I wish you could come in now, even if but for an hour & take off your coat, & sit on my
driver and met Whitman one stormy night in 1865 when Whitman, looking (as Doyle said) "like an old sea-captain
W. laughed heartily the instant I put my hands on it (I had seen it often before)—Harned mimicked Doyle
, W. retorting: 'Never mind, the expression on my face atones for all that is lacking in his.
Doyle should be a girl'—but W. shook his head, laughing again: 'No—don't be too hard on it: that is my
establishment" that he "had a real pleasant time" (nyp.00407).Of this photo, Whitman said, "It is one of my
by Henry Ulke and Brothers, 1871 Whitman spoke of people's reaction to this photo, "Some of them say my
O'Connor called it my sea-captain face.
I want to have it done for my own purposes" (Friday, October 16, 1891).For more information on W.