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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.
I wish to see my benefactor, and have felt much like striking my tasks and visiting New York to pay you
my respects.
The air tastes good to my palate.
Was't charged against my chants they had forgotten art?
Another song on the death of Lincoln, "Oh Captain! My Captain!"
invitation to write an article on Longfellow for the World —but I shall have to decline—I cannot get my
forthcoming number of the N A North American Review for February, in which I have ventilated some of my
Camden N J Dec. 18 '81 My dear Ben: Ticknor Thank you for your (& O'Reilley's O'Reilly's ) suggestion
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Feb: 22 '81 My dear Eustace Conway I am sorry I was out when you
BOSTON,__________188 Monday noon Oct: October 10 '81 My dear friend Yours rec'd received , & thanks—I
still linger along here—the printing of my book is finished—but one or two little things I want to see
word a day beforehand—I am well as usual—Have had a very pleasant time here, & the book printed &c. to my
things & times—this beautiful day among the rest—(now toward sundown, & I am writing this alone up in my
Rand & Avery's Monday noon Sept: September 5 '81 My dear friend Although it is abominable for me to back
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Feb: 20 '81 My dear Mr Longfellow A friend in Canada—to whom I am
compliance with your request in letter of 28th I this day send you by mail to same address as this card my
silent thoughts of God, & death—& not at all in what he says , nor in Sunday or prayer meeting gas —My
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey May 8 '81 My dear Mr Osgood I write in answer to the note on the
other side from my dear friend O'Reilly —My plan is to have all my poems, down to date, comprised in
My satisfaction with your proposed German trans[lation] increases the more you unfold it, and I think
In the whole matter I freely trust to your intuitions and 'cuteness as to meanings, my dear friend—you
My letter to Mr Lee was also as a preface to the Russian translation.
much of the internationality element (sentiment) which I have intended as one of the leading fibres of my
am always glad to get any letters from you dear boy)—Harry, you certainly know well enough you have my
it all—I go back to the times at Timber Creek beginning most five years ago, & the banks & spring, & my
should not be a living man to-day —I think & remember deeply these things & they comfort me— & you my
—Of the occasional ridiculous little storms & squalls of the past I have quite discarded them from my
you will too—the other recollections overtop them altogether, & occupy the only permanent place in my
once or twice, you find it is nothing to be afraid of— I have been busy all the forenoon fixing one of my
Y New York paper, the Critic —they give me $10 a piece for them, & want several more—I make use of my
time this reaches you—It is now noon & I must get out a bit —I went out & took a short stroll, but my
last July & August and then for the last two months have been in Boston, seeing to the printing of my
complete poems "Leaves of Grass" in one volume—which is all done to my satisfaction, & the book will
did have some jolly times I tell you— The Saturday evening before I came away I gave a reception to my
all right—I should be real glad to see them & Deb too—When Harry comes home Sunday tell him I sent my
—Well it is growing twilight & I must stop— Walt Whitman my address here for ten days will be Mott av
visit from 4 to 6½—But today it is raining & blowing at a great rate, & I am staying in writing,—give my
Give my love to your father & mother, & to Harry, Ed & all.
very anxious I should know of the bad illness of a particular friend of mine, & so wrote to Kirkwood—My
Dear Hank I am here seeing to the setting up & stereotyping of my book in a big printing office, (Rand
I sent—they will give you some acc't account of two or three little happenings in my jaunt—I was down
on Long Island at the spot where I was born & where I had spent my summers in youth from time to time—went
fine very old trees)—I am now writing this in Osgood's place in Boston (they are the publishers of my
—I wish you to give my love to your father & mother—Debbie & Jo Ed, Mont, & Van—Ruth & little George—
get out of the house—but with Spring & good weather shall no doubt be all right again—I truly hope, my
Camden Sunday afternoon Jan: 30— My dear friend, I rec'd received your good letter some days since, &
write you—it is now ½ past 2, after dinner, & I have been writing & fixing up a composition alone in my
had a strange chill, rattled me for two hours lively—one or two since but milder—the doctor thinks my
Sir Yours of yesterday rec'd received —in response to which—without further ceremony—I forward you my
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Dec: 3, '81 Dear Sir I send you a fair proof of my Emerson article
No, I have had no call to deliver my Lincoln lecture in New York or Brooklyn this Spring—& no arrangements
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America Dec: 8 '81 First, thanks, heartfelt thanks, my friend
Rand & Avery's 117 Franklin st: street Please send my mail, by bearer, & please send the same down to
My copy will come in about 400 pages of it—perhaps a trifle more.
My dear Mr Mr.
Spofford If convenient won't you inform me soon as possible by letter here, of the dates of my copyrights
who have set up & electrotyped a new, complete & markedly fuller edition (with several new pieces) of my
at once, with the request that you will immediately have the book entered for copyright & secured in my
I am under many obligations in the past to my friend your Josiah Child, & should like to have this matter
Camden Thursday Evening June 2 My dear friend I suppose it must look fine down there after the heavy
fruit & grain— Nothing very new with me—the big Boston house has sent me word that they will publish my
stands now—I find I can have them publish it, if I choose, but I suppose I am getting pretty lofty in my
old days & must have my own terms, & pretty good ones too— I am feeling pretty well—I think my last
, & a prospect of some pleasant days, sufficiently cool— I am alone in the house, have been all day—My
I send my two Vols: Volumes Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets , by mail same address as this note.
here for a few days, after spending a week down on Long Island, mostly at West Hills and Cold Spring, my
parents' places of nativity—& my own place.
431 Stevens Street Camden Jan: 26 '81 My dear friend I am sorry to have to send you word that I am not
unable to meet you & the other friends at dinner—I send you herewith a couple of pictures (I call it my
Quaker picture) —one is for your father —also the books herewith—also my love to you— Walt Whitman Walt
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Jan: January 8 My dear Miss G Yours of yesterday rec'd received
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey April 9 '81 My Dear Miss Gilder Thanks for the slips of No: Number
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Jan: 15 '81 My dear friend As I have not rec'd received the proof
In the Feb: February N A North American Review there is a piece of mine about Poetry (a good many of my
send to Mr Rice, the editor, or Mr Metcalf the business manager, & I think get the sheets—you can use my
name— Walt Whitman Should you notice, send to me In my last I addressed you at 757 Broadway—is either
Camden Wednesday noon April 27 My dear Jeannie Yours just rec'd received here sent on from Boston—Yes
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Dec 21 '81 My dear W S K Yours rec'd received & glad to hear from
L of G—have just sent you a package by express of the late & other editions & Vols. of poems &c. as my
when we meet, Tom—but some six weeks ago was careless enough to get badly chill'd chilled all through my
My great loafing place out there is a big old woods, mostly pine & oak, but lots of laurel & holly, old
Broadway New York from the top of an omnibus—at other times along the seashore at Coney Island)— Tom, my
filled & I must close—I wanted to write something about the running & matches, but must postpone it—Give my
love to all my friends there & you yourself, dear boy— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Thomas Nicholson
in the Feinberg Collection, Whitman wrote in 1886 or 1888: "Have had this little Vol. at hand or in my
16 '81 Dear Sirs I have been down in the Jersey woods the last ten days—just returned —have finished my
be new or substantially new long primer —I sent on the proof page for a little change, last night on my
It will be the whole expression of the design which I had in my mind When I Began to Write.
Now, that is the way it has been with my book. It has been twenty-five years building.
"My poetry," continued Mr.
But I have accepted it all as a part of my work.
Many of my friends have no patience with my opinion on this matter.
suppose you know all about it & have had the same—I still keep well & in good trim, thank the Lord—eat my
—Mrs G appears to be about well again— It is now 12½ Sunday—it is moderated, & the sun has come out—my
Camden Friday afternoon May 6 My dear friend I am sorry to hear of your feeling so unwell, & have thought
while I was there)—I had a lively time in Boston—Susan I wish you could have been there the evening of my
such a collection of people as would have suited you, & been a study—different from any I ever saw in my
them from the usual crowd—about 300—(I will tell you more when I see you)— As I write this part of my
supper, & here I am in perfect quiet up in my room, finishing my letter—Susan my dear friend I hope
March 6 Dear friend The days go along with me pretty much after the old sort, though I dont don't get my
did in the fall & early winter—I busy myself writing some & reading a little—am doing quite well with my
books, & have been all winter—when the weather permits I try to get out, but my strength soon fails
think of coming down next Friday to stay two or three days at any rate—a friend of mine here about my
a long letter from her last week—Susan I am afraid this is not a very lively letter—I have just had my
431 Stevens Street Camden Sunday afternoon Jan: 16 My dear friends You havn't haven't sent for the two
I was out once or twice sleighing—my brother took me—his mare Nelly is in fine condition—pretty lively—makes
things fly sometimes I have been in all day reading & writing—I have put up two sets of my books, to
farmer—well if he is satisfied, it is about as good as anything, I don't know but better— There comes my
call to dinner, & I shall go for it without delay & finish my helter-skelter letter afterwards.
Camden Feb: 22 Evening My dear friend I still keep around & have been over to Philadelphia this afternoon
Mott avenue & 149th Street Station L New York City Aug: August 8 '81 1881 My dear Baxter Yours rec'd
Osgood & Co: are going to publish a complete & new volume of my poems, & I am coming on to see to & oversee