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I have it in my memorandum book here—the date: can get it if we need to.

I guess I made it evident I wouldn't turn a damned inch on my heel for any of them."

that's my method: I rarely write on the reverse side of the sheet.

"I see you know without my telling you. Well, do it that way.

In reply to my expressed suspicion that there was someone on the Christian Union interested in ignoring

The Emerson letters were brought out (I had them in my pocket) and read aloud—Frank Williams the 1855

On my way to Camden we debated whether to go to W.'s at all.

I am here with most of my duds off—have been taking a wash, bath. Now must take care myself."

Then suddenly looking over my way (I was hid by the round table, piled full, that was between us, and

I would like to look at it at my leisure and long." After which our good-byes.

Aroused by my entrance he was at once cordial and inquisitive. Talked well. Looked well.

Yet I have made up my mind to be cheerful: to sustain myself by what philosophy I can."

"Yes, I often think of it, especially of late days—how fortunate I have been in my friends: I doubt if

This is the very centre, circumference, umbillicus, of my whole career.

So it was with me: I had to cut up my capers.

My dear mother knew it well—warned me of it, counselled me. And it was not without effect.

And after a pause, with a quiet smile, "He calls me master—opens the letter 'My dear Master'"—and then

from it, when domestic troubles, very sad and serious to me, set me back, so that I never fully got on my

My legs are completely gone—but the paralysis hardly touched my speech, and, as far as I know, did not

He went away from here, expecting to stop with my friends—the Romes—to see them—in Brooklyn—then set

Williams in to see me about birthday—anxious lest it might be passed over, but agreeable in face of my

O'Donovan spoke of my New England Magazine article. Had he seen the Lippincott's article?

of its mass yet also of its thinness (for it is quite thin now)—Eakins interposed, "That was one of my

At one moment he leaned impulsively forward, "Do you know, dear, you remind me of my dear dear friend

And they are evils, too—I know it—but like evils, prove the good—just as I said to my doctor yesterday

keep, if not fairly, at least not markedly worse and I hope to find you "right side up with care" on my

But the main thing I want to talk about to you today is my visit yesterday to Lord Tennyson.

But after all I fear I can give you but a faint notion of the pleasure my visit was to me.

Give Horace my love and show him this letter, tell him to keep it.

oblivious to my presence.

My head especially—filled me with whirlings, whizzings, spiralings—seeming to send every effervescence

to my poor brain.

I had caught a glimpse of them on Chestnut St. in one of my hurried runs out.

W. suddenly started to get up—asked me for my hand—came to table (east).

He seemed to seal my identity. All great teachers given this power.

You objects that call from diffusion my meanings and give them shape!

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me, the sun-light expands my blood?

Why, when they leave me, do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

It is safe—I have tried it—my own feet have tried it well. Allons! Be not detained!

I give you my hand!

You objects that call from diffusion my meanings and give them shape!

Why, when they leave me, do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

My call is the call of battle—I nourish active re- bellion rebellion ?

It is safe—I have tried it—my own feet have tried it well. Allons! Be not detain'd!

I give you my hand!

friend, my lover, was coming, then o I was happy; each breath tasted sweeter—and all that day my food

The poet’s fluid movement between the singular “my friend, my lover” and the more indefinite “a friend

“I know my words are weapons, full of danger, full of death,” the poet declares in “as I lay with my

“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, / Be not afraid of my body,” says the naked

legs and his tongue was in my bellybutton. and then when he was tickling my fundament just behind the

My city's fit and noble name resumed, Choice aboriginal name, with marvellous beauty, meaning, A rocky

Camden May 23d My dear Reid Couldn't you feel to print the above say for instance in the Bits of Criticism

My Dear Bolger Here is an article I have reeled off for you if you want it your telegram recd recieved

Camden Aug. 11, 1887 Davis's report of me and my talk, in re the Swinburne article, is very cute and

Received from David McKay, 18th December, 1886, One Hundred and Twenty 01 | 100 Dollars, for royalties on my

SCOVEL, 113 Arch Street, Camden, N.J., Feby 23, 1878 Walt Whitman Esq My Dear "Old Boy" James M.

Camden New Jersey Sept. 8 noon Thanks, my friend, for your kind invitation—but am not able to accept

May 5, '91 Was taken out to the cemetery (Harleigh) to see if I was satisfied with the work on my burial

Camden New Jersey December 18 '83 Yours of 17th with the pay ($10) for my piece has come safely to hand

Walt Whitman Esq Dear Sir I will Sell My Lot on Royden St—for $450—all clear of incumbrance.

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Dec 12 My dear friend As the holidays come on I would like to make

My dear friend O'Connor is dead. Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman to Thomas B. Harned, 10 May 1889

prove this puzzle, the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy; Therefore I send you my

prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I send you my

prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I send you my

My dear Mr. Editor, Would this piece be available for the Magazine?—The price is $100.

Private 328 Mickle st Camden May 27 My dear friend If convenient & you can print the following, just

He does not answer my letter directed to him at Salem, and I do not know where he is to be found.

I shall send all the evidence in my power, if any more is found.

The furnishing of professional defence went to the very verge of what I understand to be my authority

To go further, and pay costs out of any funds under my control, seems to me unauthorized.

"I suppose I'll see some of the posters in my wanderings," he said.

I received following letter from Baker today:New York, Oct. 9, 1890 My dear Traubel:Enclosed find proof

All my boyhood dreams seemed to rise in reproach to the fact.

The water "falling like a veil before my (his) face," etc.I wrote W. in early morning, but no time or

My father had asked for the latter but I would not leave it with him, regardful of my promise to W.

I got a Lippincott, and was a little dismayed to find my rather disparaging remarks quoted, until I noticed

It confirms my own and Williams' idea of the footnote. Mrs.

As to "formalistic literariness," as W. terms it (in reply to my remark, "It has not all died out yet

After further talk W. said, "The sculptor was here today—took a cast of my hand." Which one?

COURAGE yet, my brother or my sister!

COURAGE yet, my brother or my sister!

I are very thick—then there are two grown daughters—the eldest one is a first class trump , she is my

so that we can have some good times together on land or water—I used to think of having a shanty of my

Ah dear old friend as I hear from her young lips those soul stirring words of yours my heart strings

My children join me in love and good wishes. Sincerely yours Mrs Anna M Kerr P.S.

guarantee that at the business meeting at 8 o'clock you would be elected & at nine you could come in, as my

I want your name to head the list, not merely because of my esteem for you personally, but because of

50 Wellington Road Dublin, Oct 15, 1871 My dear Sir, I ought before now to have thanked you for the poem

Much work lying before me on my return here prevented me from thanking you sooner.

feeling quite an improvement, or let up, the last two days & nights on the bad spell I spoke of in my

think if I was fixed so that I had you with me every day, I should get well—good bye for this week, my

a bad place, armory building, where the worst wounds were, & have absorbed too much of the virus in my

ambulances—tell Jeff the $10 from Mr Lane for the soldiers came safe—I shall write to Jeff right away—I send my

I returned to-day from a three days visit to my Quaker friends at Germantown—they have tip top horses

—Sometimes I think you must be sick— —I am about as usual—I am writing this after 9 at night up in my

I quite enjoyed my short interview with him. Looks well & in good spirits.

Nothing could be more quietly & genuinely homely , more considerate & gentle in its kindness than my

The Herald, Boston, Aug. 2, 188 7 My dear Friend: I enclose for the cottage $285 in two checks of $50

If the idea pleases you, my friend, Jack Law, the Chelsea tile-maker, would like to send you a handsome

1870 June 1 My dear Walter i did feel so ansious anxious to hear from you and i cant can't help but feel

for a letter so bad thinking you will be better the next one but i hope you will not get discourage d my

We could have a good time here in my bark-covered shanty & in knocking about the country.

For the past two weeks my head has been ground between the upper & nether millstone of bank ledgers &

22 Oct. 1867 22 October Well Walter my dear i have just received your welcome letter with the 10 dollers

says if this medicine dont don't help me he know as any thing will sometimes i think it will help me my

Y., on a visit to my mother."

I told her I would mark passages for her in the copy I meant to send on my own book, but didn't send

How shall I thank our poet for the beautiful book, and for my name written in it by his own hand so near

three fourths of the rest of the trilogy ditto—it is fished out of one of Dante's hells, considering my

Independent for Nov: with notice of L of G, wh' I mail you—send me the synopsis when you have an opportunity—my