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Though W. was on his bed, he was not asleep—got up instantly on my entrance, and after he had shaken

But I have not half examined it yet and must put off for another letter my dicta upon it.I am well but

Buxton Forman And W. volunteered his Forman note, which had to do with the dinner, and was in reply to my

"Just now it is my main labor simply to hold my head up. As for moving? No! No!"

Air, soil, water, fire—those are words, I myself am a word with them—my qualities interpenetrate with

theirs—my name is nothing to them, Though it were told in the three thousand languages, what would air

, soil, water, fire, know of my name?

When I undertake to tell the best I find I cannot, My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath

Air, soil, water, fire—those are words, I myself am a word with them—my qualities interpenetrate with

theirs—my name is nothing to them, Though it were told in the three thousand languages, what would air

, soil, water, fire, know of my name?

When I undertake to tell the best I find I cannot, My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath

Garaphelia Howard, | My dear friend: Accept the thanks of many sick & wounded soldiers, for the $10,

Street Camden New Jersey US America Dec. 21 '86 Thanks for the six copies of your beautiful Edition of my

As I write the mocking-bird is singing over the way, & my canary—Love to A and L — Walt Whitman Walt

Camden New Jersey April 2 '82 My dear Dana Yes I am willing you should make extracts—Enclosed (suggestions

#15 J.B Gilder '85 Camden Feb. 18 My dear J B G I have no feeling of objection to your substituting a

My friends Can you use this in the Critic ?

[Camden, Feb. 1889] [McKay] Dave I see according to my tally & memoranda book I have furnish'd you eight

New Jersey Dec: December 28 '80 Dear Sir I shall be glad to supply you with a set (Two Volumes) of my

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey March 26 1886 Dear Sir Yours of 26th rec'd—I send my heartiest thanks

who should serve the good old cause, the prog- ress progress and freedom of the race, the cause of my

Camden N J — Nov: 24 '91 Best thanks my friend for y'r kind invitation, but I am in an almost entirely

Camden New Jersey May 27 —I have to-day sent by mail, same address as this card, my Volume Leaves of

Please accept my sincere thanks for your favor. Very gratefully yours Hannah L.

Church, My friends, If convenient, please remit to me, here, a check for $25 in pay for "O Star of France

Evn'g Evening Dear neices nieces I have received the beautiful book-knife—Just the thing, & will be in my

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey June 14 '87 Dear S E C I wish to send you my special deep-felt personal

should then visit you (sending you word beforehand)—I am writing this in the winter sunshine and send my

My companion, the moment he saw her, directed my attention to her by a peculiar movement of the head.

female—though I could hardly divine what or who she had been—and when we left the place, I reminded my

He then went on to give me the particulars of this celebrated mutiny, which I had read in my own country

when a boy, but which had nearly escaped my memory.

intentions, and that G OD will receive me into favor: and I sincerely hope that my death will be the

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Nov 27 My dear Reid If convenient please send me the pay for the

No, I have had no call to deliver my Lincoln lecture in New York or Brooklyn this Spring—& no arrangements

My dear Whitman, The Voice of the Rain does not tempt me, and I return it herewith with thanks.

Can you kindly aid me in increasing my collection of autographs by sending yours on the enclosed cards

Camden Wednesday Evn'g Aug: 22 '88 Am still keeping my room—Sunny & cool day very fine—the booklet slowly

Camden New Jersey U S America Oct 24 — I send you to-day, to same address as this card, my Two Volumes

Send me a line acknowledging them, as I have a little uncertainty ab't my P.O. messenger.

If in his barouche, I can see from my window he does not alight, but sits in the vehicle, and Mr.

"Shining Shores," also called "My Days are Swiftly Gliding By," was written by David Nelson in 1835,

My days are swiftly gliding by, and I a Pilgrim stranger, Would not detain them as I fly, those hours

We'll gird our loins my brethren dear, our distant home discerning.

The sounds and scene altogether had made an indelible impression on my memory.

.; "Shining Shores," also called "My Days are Swiftly Gliding By," was written by David Nelson in 1835

My plan is, & do you like it?

My plan is to put the six published stories, & the new one, "The Brazen Android" in one volume,—with

The preface was included in Good-Bye My Fancy (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891), 51–53.

—not intended to be polished off—left purposely a little in the rough— I suppose you rec'd my cards—You

Johnston on September 1, 1887, "He advertises...to sell my photo, with autograph.

A glance at the Sunday Times notice recalls to my attention a sentence therein I sh.d should perhaps

30, 1868, Whitman informed Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Proud Music of the Storm" was "put in type for my

If my article on you should appear in any american magazine, I should like to have sent a copy.

Clausen, who Rudolf Schmidt called "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he

or half-bad weather here—but I go out a little in the wheel-chair —was out yesterday—have just had my

Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my

entitled "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" and sixty-five poems; while the second, "Good-Bye my

criticism—when it comes I shall have it carefully translated to me—if you communicate with him, please give him my

Clausen, who Rudolf Schmidt called "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he

"Walt Whitman's Last," an "explanation" of his book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), was published in the August

eternities, the one past and the one to come, and it is a delight to me to feel satisfied, and to feel in my

Noyes is in town  he was on my car yesterday (sunday) & he looks first rate  i told him i sent you the

In his letter to Doyle on October 2, 1868, Whitman begins: "You say it is a pleasure to get my letters—well

Feb. 6, 1861 My dear Sir, Please find bill enclosed of 20.24 .

EDITORIAL•DEPARTMENT THE CENTURY•MAGAZINE UNION•SQUARE•NEW•YORK 25 July 1888 My dear Mr Whitman: I hope

Camden New Jersey U S America July 26 I have to-day today sent, same address as this card, my Two Volumes—Please

I am about the same as to my sickness—no worse. Walt. Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 31 May [1873]

My father has been yachting in the Sunbeam. He thanks you for your letter: he is not up to writing.

Camden Jan. 8, 1889 Tom, if you have it and you can, I wish you w'd fill my bottle again with that Sherry

me of the 1st November 1867,— whereupon the whole matter was treated as having been withdrawn from my

consideration, and all the papers relating to it, were, with my letter of 5th Nov. 1867, transmitted

in this office, is one in which the importance of the questions involved makes it proper to embody my

United States, in conformity to the provisions of the Civil Rights Act, it would be expedient, and in my

been both pertinent & important if I had occasion to dispose of the case of Davis as presented for my

By a perusal of my letter to Mr.

You desire such instructions in the premises as in my judgment shall best comport with the interests

Schley, to whom the interests of the Government in the matter were confided by my predecessor, Mr.

regulations, to the beach, where the speaker bathes in the sea and watches the sun rise and thinks how "my

dear friend my lover was on his way coming."