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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

February 15, 1889]), and claimed "it is me, me, unformed, undeveloped—hits off phases not common in my

The tones still linger in my ear, and I can scarecely persuade myself that it is eight days since I heard

To the Editor of the Times— My attention has just been called to an article in your Saturday's issue,

My object in addressing you this note, is not to enter into an argument with him upon the propriety of

the costumes worn on the occasion alluded to; as that would be entirely out of my line, but merely to

Although it is not my province to notice his personal allusion, I cannot but think that sympathy might

Give it space enough, and the vox populi my be relied upon to the fullest extent.

Williamsburghers, that he who runs may read, and that all may recognize the subjects depicted, without my

My effort shall be to describe the lineaments of each so faithfully, that all who have seen the men shall

The subject of my next sketch is middle sized, with a good humored face, and an utterance so rapid as

One sketch more, and my chapter is done.

My heart bleeds for him—he feels terribly his situation; and to save such a man as—,is worth more than

Do you know, whether the ice is broken or not, into my bath I go every day of my life?’

I am rather gratified to find that my first sketches were generally recognized, and their fidelity admitted

My subject is wealthy, and a bachelor—and I need hardly add, therefore, that he likes fun, amusement,

—My subject never runs for office, seldom or never attends a public meeting; and, we verily believe never

But I ought not to call my subject “a little man,” after all—for is he not a great man?

I hear that some of my former portraits have not been high colored and flattering enough to suit the

My subject is a tall sedate man, whose grey hair and invariable spectacles make him seem older at first

The impression which his speeches always leave on my mind is—"This was not a first class speech, but

I almost fear that my present subject is one of the former description—yet as my series of sketches would

And there is no more hard-working man in the city than my subject, who labors unceasingly for the good

I commence my fourth series by PORTRAIT No. 10.

I approach the next picture in my gallery of portraits with no little anxiety.

For my own part, I am not blind to the fact that my subject is a better friend to himself than to anybody

man is richer than you, and from this, no doubt, a good deal of envy and enmity has been excited by my

PORTRAIT No. 11 A certain antagonism between the men leads my ideas from the above to my present subject

My subject is in prosperous circumstances, and is one of the few men of that class who have become prominent

So far the good qualities of my subject in public life.

My subject is sometimes too fast. His energy sometimes goes ahead of his prudence.

In truth there is too much progression about him to always suit my conservative ideas.

Some time ago my subject was inducted into a post of considerable political importance in another part

My school boy reminiscences are not of the brightest—in fact I look on the guides of the rising generation

enlarge, as orators often do, on the dignity and responsibility of the educational vocation; but for my

part I would prefer to see my subject in a wider and more public sphere of usefulness than that afforded

have to picture a man for whom I entertain a sincere respect, though I am not blind to his faults, as my

In order to place his personality before my readers without mistake, I will apply to him an epithet by

To drop the simile, however, I may describe my subject as a tall, muscular, robust man, with a voice

, so that I cannot, in justice to the district, omit adding so honorable and excellent a citizen to my

I may say, without fear of contradiction, that though my subject has not long resided in the 19th ward

My subject has filled other prominent positions before his present one.

With some of his kinsmen, my subject is engaged just now in developing the resources and augmenting the

But this is not the case with my present subject.

—My subject deserves a very favorable notice.

The further development of these ideas, as soon to be tested, will no doubt confer on my subject the

My subject is a jovial, good humored man (who indeed ever knew a big stout man that wasn’t?

The real aristocrat is not you, but my subject.

.— The New York Times pretends that there is yellow fever in this city, because the Captain of the Brig

The facts seem to be that, on last Wednesday it was reported to Health officer Boyd, that the captain

Some of my readers doubtless imagine that my series of sketches had come to an end, as they have not

from the city, and a multiplicity of other engagements, have hitherto prevented me from continuing my

Tall, portly, good-humored in feature as in fact, my subject is known, admired, and respected by all

In a word, he is my model of what an intelligent citizen’s conduct should be, in matters political.

Perrin never equaled my subject as a manager and facilitator of legislative business.

'Courage, my boy!' wrote Lord Chatham to his son, 'only the Encyclopædia to learn!'

he screams to a gaping universe: "I, Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a Cosmos; I shout my

voice high and clear over the waves; I send my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

From those beginning notes of sickness and love, there in the mist, From the thousand responses in my

O what is my destination? O I fear it is henceforth chaos!"

.— When my little friend Tom Thumb, travelled with the circus he stood behind the stand, in a Missouri