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upon his sentence,"— and your letter of May 4, 1869, again calling my attention to the same case, were
The dingy little two-storied domicile is so disappointingly different from what we were expecting to
was the dearest of the friendships lost to him by the publication of "Leaves of Grass;" "but there were
"Yes, it made an old man of me; but I would like to do it all again if there were need."
which we have been secretly coveting, he says, "You know I have never been the fashion; publishers were
Wolfe, Literary Shrines: The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors (Philadelphia: J. B.
Wolfe, Literary Shrines: The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors (Philadelphia: J. B.
It seemed to me a spiritually deepened image of contemporary Americans: an ideal laborer, as the Americans
He had a smack of Americanism, American individuality, smack of outdoor life, the wash of the sea, the
W HITMAN : "Americans are allowed to be different.
These men were really worthy of his friendship.
These were the last words Walt Whitman spoke to me.