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My dear Walt, I introduce to you Mr.

My motive was the necessity of saving you & your relatives from the degradation implied in Mr.

You may remember that I talked to you in my bedroom about your circumstances, after I had conversed with

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

My dear Whitman, I have been voyaging amid the Hebrides,—strolling amid the Highlands,—loafing by the

Sea,—trying to extract from two or three weeks' vacation some vigour vigor and virtue for my work, which

(If you see him tell him that his accompanying letter got lost in my absence or it shd should have been

await us—you must (letting me know beforehand the Ship by which you sail from America) come straight to my

My dear friend, I regret to say that our hopes of getting out the complete and arranged edition of your

My first feeling at hearing of this arrangement was one of regret.

In the next place it is far better, in my opinion and that of your real friends here, that the introduction

facts together with the assured social and literary position of Rossetti make him of all persons of my

Conway Observe my change of address Moncure D. Conway to Walt Whitman, 12 October 1867

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

editorial decisions, which included editing potentially objectionable content and removing entire poems: "My

My dear friend, It gave me much pleasure to hear from you; and now I am quite full of gratitude for the

I shall keep my eyes wide open; and the volume with O'C's introduction shall come out just as it is.

Feb. 1, 68 My dear friend, I have but a moment in which to write to you, if I save the mail.

My object is to ask you, in behalf of Hotten, whether it is consistent with your will that the selection

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

editorial decisions, which included editing potentially objectionable content and removing entire poems: "My

propose would of course be adopted by me with thanks & without a moment's debate, were it not that my

Before the window where I do my morning work, there is an old lilac tree, dating from my grandmother's

Forgive my assurance, and, if possible give me that pleasure of that great recompense for being so unknown

I have foreknown Clearly all things that should be; nothing done Comes sudden to my soul; and I must

He delighted in making "acquaintances among the captains, boatmen, or other characters" (Complete 1201

of cities and the shop- fronts shopfronts , (Account for it or not—credit or not—it is all true, And my

As to me I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight

As to me I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight

and which are my miracles?

Realism is mine—my miracles—Take freely, Take without end—I offer them to you wherever your feet can

As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight

any one I love—or sleep in the bed at night with any one I love, Or sit at the table at dinner with my

perfect old man, or the perfect old woman, Or the sick in hospitals, or the dead carried to burial, Or my

volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My

Oberlin Ohio Aug 9th 1867 Mr Whitman Dr Dear sir I take this opportunity to inform you that I have made my

trip to Wisconsin and returned here yesterday, and will soon be in Washington and hope my orders will

"Millet is my painter," Whitman said; "he belongs to me: I have written Walt Whitman all over him" (With

connections between literature and psychology, as do his two biographies: Melville (1975) and Salem Is My

I was in Washington the 2nd and I went to No 34 4 ½ Street and pawned my Watch a good American Lever,

for $22.07 which I was to pay within a month but I was robbed of my pocket Book which contained a receipt

M Chicago, June 1 st 18 89 My Dear Old Friend The enclosed I clipped from the Inter Ocean today, and

as this is my 48 th birthday, I am prompted by old recolections recollections to write you a few lines

liked it, and on 20 April 1884 he wrote to Anne Gilchrist, "I have moved into a little old shanty of my

Fittingly, 1892, the year of Whitman's death, witnessed the poem "Good-Bye my Fancy!

Against a backdrop of fluctuation, a continuity in Whitman's thought emerges, and with "Good-Bye my Fancy

Aug. 31/69 My dear Walt Whitman, I have the advantage of you—I know you well—"My soul embraces you this

Last Summer, and this I have been living in the woods, with "Leaves of Grass" beside me, one of my rustic

know him well—I hope some of these days I may have the pleasure of a visit from him— I am spending my

change—but will be at home in a few weeks—and will be pleased to see you at any time— Hope you will pardon my

Brookfield is quoting from from Whitman's poem ultimately titled "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

"My eyes are feeling pretty badly, and yesterday and to-day I consulted Dr.

I have lost my poise in walking and cannot promenade at all.

I go out every day in my carriage, and a friend of mine, Willie Duckett, a neighbor's little boy, always

I still retain my hopeful, bouyant spirits. I feel better to-night than I have for several days."

Among my earliest indiscretions was Walt Whitman.

fame and no peril to my immortal soul, not to speak of my standing in society?

Whitman was the author of the lines, and my quoting them among my earliest indiscretions.

No one can read "My Captain" or "Pioneers" without seeing that there was capacity for music in the man

Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.

and who are forever enshrined in his—and civic—memory and as a significant theme of the dirge.In "O Captain

My Captain!"

The president is described as the fallen captain of the ship of state he had steered to victory.

Within a short time, my Cincinnati accent in English and my relatively (for an American) voluble Russian

But what he opened up for my eyes and my heart was the genuine Russia that lay behind, and sometimes

voice approach Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.

with your hand,/Don't be afraid of my body").

("Don't be afraid, it is not fearful/my body!").

Robert LeighDavisMemoranda During the War [1875–1876]Memoranda During the War [1875–1876]"My idea is

(I think I see my friends smiling at this confession, but I was never more in earnest in my life.)

The rebel Captain then shot him—but at the same instant he shot the Captain.

I can say that in my ministerings I comprehended all, whoever came in my way, Northern or Southern, and

Also, same Reg't., my brother, Geo. W.

Let me try to give my view.

Philadelphia, May 21 st 189 1 My dear Mr. Whitman: Thanks.

I am reminded of the matter now by a note from my friend Nugent Robinson of Once a Week .

My original intention was to create a comprehensive edition of Whitman interviews, an ambition that seemed

My research into the development of the interview genre made it clear that conceiving interviews as necessarily

the CBS series Northern Exposure featured disc jockey Chris Stevens reading passages and discussing "my

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

In the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass , Whitman included the lines: "Who learns my lesson complete?

My Lesson Have you learned my lesson complete: It is well—it is but the gate to a larger lesson—and And

mother generations guided me, / My embryo has never been torpid . . . . nothing could overlay it; /

All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me, / Now I stand on this spot with my

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

all—aplomb in the midst of irrational things, Imbued as they—passive, receptive, silent as they, Finding my

woods, or of any farm-life of These States, or of the coast, or the lakes, or Kanada, Me, wherever my

aplomb in the midst of irrational things, Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they, Finding my

woods or of any farm-life of these States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada Canada , Me wherever my

aplomb in the midst of irrational things, Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they, Finding my

woods or of any farm-life of these States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada Canada , Me wherever my

all—aplomb in the midst of irrational things, Imbued as they—passive, receptive, silent as they, Finding my

of any farm- life farm-life of These States, or of the coast, or the lakes, or Kanada, Me, wherever my

& Collect from Rees Welsh after one printing, and later published November Boughs (1888), Good-Bye My

wish I might myself give you the special hand grasp which he gave me for you, but I can only send you my

Dillingham Co: New York), he writes of Whitman: "Whitman gave a few readings under my management during

Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Friday, September 13, 1889 and Saturday, September 14, 1889: "My

as one who values your writings more than I can ever attempt to express, please allow me to express my

Your teachings rest always in my mind like gleams of sunlight upon the pathway of the future, & I may

write a leading article without trying, as much as lies within me, to hold your "Democratic Vistas" in my

In respect to the interest of Captain Goodwin, no difficulty is perceived.

It is not perceived that Captain Goodwin is to blame for this, but it is equally difficult to see how

the 6th inst. relative to proceedings pending in your District "to confiscate the property of the Captain

Miller, who has been appointed as my successor, has not yet qualified, and I have been informed that

Overman Captain Corps of Engineers, Austin, Texas.

little son, Prince Arthur, who was taken prisoner by his usurping uncle: "Grief fills the room up of my

had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.— I will not keep this form upon my

head, When there is such disorder in my wit.

My boy, my Arthur, my fair son!

My life, my joy, my food, my all in the world, My widow–comfort, and my sorrow's cure!"

In his 1936 autobiography, Masters wrote, "What had enthralled me with Whitman from my days with Anne

But I must not make my letter longer—I shall look forward to seeing you soon, and I hope you will be

Rukh–mabai, my Indian friend was with us—her first visit to Oxford, and she was tremendously interested

This is a most unsatisfactory letter—but I feel as if the fog had got into my head.

It is not so unhappy for me, because for several years all my work has been given to what seems to me