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Whitman I think it must have been my guardian angel that gave thee the "impalpable nudge" to write to
I am worse & not better, & now I have to go off for I don't know how long to the Pyrennees, leaving my
My road has seemed so shut up—I am laid aside in the midst of all the work I care for—fit for nothing—and
I am so grateful to thee for seeing him—I suppose it was my letter he presented?
He has been a very intimate friend of my husband's since their College days, but I do not know him very
I have an accumulation of 20 letters to write today—so I must make my first one short.
gets a chance of seeing him in the seething side of affairs in this great city, but I am going to make my
I should have been glad to die before I had left such a message as my last utterance, the final outcome
But I am disobeying my doctor, who has forbidden long letters for the present.
I am on the Free Trade side, in spite of my American upbringing.
Whitman, Thy welcome card came just as we were leaving London last week, after a very sad week with my
I am using these days of leisure to mature a scheme of education for Ray, & enlarge my list of books
Greenport Dec 23 Dear Brother Walter I received a letter from you last night and an order for my annual
thing about it in your letter I am not feeling well at all this winter not sick abed but a pain in my
expect pains and aches as we are growing old but I am thankful I am no worse can get around and do my
sometimes nips ahead and sometimees sometimes tuck but in the main we are all right as long as I only have my
will and would like very much to see you whenever you feel as if you could come or any of the rest of my
I feel myself growing old and failing every day but my health has been better this winter than usual
This has been my life:— From early morn till evening, I've labored here for naught, And others coming
"And some other coming after—," When I've fallen by the way— With a touch completes my life work— And
turn, suffered leaf-flight and twig-flight, and with a fair enough outside, shall fall, at last, with my
My dear Mr Whitman, I send you Alys' circular letter and will you please mail it to Miss Nicholson after
I am spending my summer among the Blue Ridge mountains in a place that belongs jointly to my mother and
my aunt Mrs Pearsall Smith.
I don't know whether you remember a young man whom you met at my Uncles several times Tom Worthington
I still intend to continue my course at Bryn Mawr College which will be three years longer and then I
No 109 North Carolina Av Atlantic City September 3d 1888 My Dear Mr Whitman Frank and I read your "Old
I think you will be interested to know that my cousin, of whom I have made mention to you as being intimate
your life, and found myself weeping at the close—for it brought back as plainly as if but yesterday my
earliest recollections of yourself in connection with my father, and "dear Old Brooklyn."
You I think, fully understand my Father—the American people have yet to learn his real merit I have deeply
Please accept my best wishes that the year we have entered upon may bring to you much calm peacefulness
I am, my dear sir, yours very truly and gratefully, Mary Ashley Mary Ashley to Walt Whitman, 7 January
These days I seem to need something: seem to be looking for something—feeling towards it: something my
16 New King Street Bath England December 17. 1891 My dear sir, Having seen by a paragraph in the Pall
First I wish to have the new one, Goodbye, My Fancy.
My edition of Specimen Days is 1883 by Wilson Glasgow, with a photograph.
Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short
Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892
For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman
It happens that I was one of these children—my Father was Solicitor of the Treasury, Edward Jordan.
My vacation, between these dates will be spent in Elizabeth New Jersey, so that we can come down to Camden
Dear Sir I feel that as my brothers friend you have been neglecred but owing to sickness in the family
On October 18, 1863, Babbitt was depressed—"dark clouds seem to be lying in my pathway and I can not
remove them nor hide them from my mind"—until he mentioned his beloved, Nellie F.
Dear Sir, My brother wishes me to inform you of the state of his health, also of his journey home he
On October 18, 1863, Babbitt was depressed—"dark clouds seem to be lying in my pathway and I can not
remove them nor hide them from my mind"—until he mentioned his beloved, Nellie F.
L OUIS March 30th, 18 70 My dear Walt I suppose you think strange that I hav'nt written you before but
work goes on well we have delightful weather here everything looks like Spring I am glad I put off my
been ample and I should have enjoyed a visit with Mrs O Conner very much indeed Please convey to them my
love and express to them my hearty thanks for their kindness—also say to Mrs O C and family that we
her out a great deal and it improves her much Jessie is not behind her they both study hard and it is my
for St Louis this afternoon he was very sorry that he could not see you. but I am certainly coming on my
aweful awful scene and I do not want to witness another for I must say I never was so frightened in my
when he flew at me again and said he did not mean to hurt me but now he Be D_ if he would'nt knock my
Jeff would do a rash act any quicker than I or you would he is naturrally naturally so good and kind my
back achued ached two or three days and it made Jeff very angry I do not have Jess up in my room any
have so much trouble she feels it more now than ever before but I can never consent to have him in my
Sunday, August 11th/67 My dear Walt I received your letter and was right glad to get it I am in rather
fashionable calls but of course I must submit to it. but what I enjoy most of any thing else is sitting in my
that I will get there in the evening and I have no doubt when I call on Masons they will insist on my
volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My
Dec 6th 188 5 Mr Walt Whitman My Dear Old Friend.
Dear Walt Whitman, "That my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing
Yes, and how "utterly quelled and defeated" too I have felt to find my strength so much less than my
each one the core of life, namely happiness, is full of the rotten excrement of maggots," and so in my
Leaves of Grass laid on my lightstand, and I opened to "Song of the Universe."
fast the world moves to me when I read such thoughts, and how slow when I carry them with me among my
Minchen is quoting from Whitman's poem "Who Learns My Lesson Complete."
It brings peace to my soul to know that I can read and understand Leaves of Grass.
"My Spirit to Yours" Dear Brother, Marilla B Minchen. Carroll. Iowa. MB Minchen Marilla B.
I should have replied immediately but for expecting my own picture from Boston a copy of which I have
My love to Mrs Benedict! Yours Sincerely Marie Blood.
eachother each other yet our Children are anxious to see you the picture you sent Bethuel looks some like my
grandfather Deen that is my fathers father's father if Harvy Allen and Sally should go to philadelphia
about two miles from glensfalls Glens Falls iwent I went to meeting one Sunday evening and enjoyed my
fashioned hymns and old tunes it seemed like old times when young idont I dont now know as you can read my
riting writing but we feel anxious to hear from you and how you get along god bless you with my best
afew a few lines that you may now know i I have you in rememberance remembrance yet you were kin to my
hospital afriend a friend in need is a friend indeed Bethuels father has gone to his home to rest and my
all right it has allways always seemed to me since our Son came home that some of us should to you my
hard place indeed you have seen some of the hardship of it perhaps all you wish to see or even hear of my
and stay with me this winter they are with me this winter Joseph is in the lumberwoods this winter my
health is very good iwas I was not well for about one year after my husbands husband's death almost
to see you wemay we may see eachother each other yet sometime if you Canot Cannot read this send you my
As my great aims in life are PRO BONO PUBLICO, you may find it in your heart to say a POTENT thing or
two in my behalf.
TAYLOR 1193 Broadway New York has doubtlessly received 12 of my books within the last few days to "PLACE
called up on us with her Sister. she said was acquainted with your brothers family. her Sister lived in my
I got your Picture on Broadway near 28 st for my Friend Mrs Edward Smith the head of the C lothing Firm
can tell you but little of the feelings of our hearts towards you for the intrest you have taken in My
we come Die both parents and children brothers and Sisters but i Shall tire your patience i was to My
very thankful to you for the kindness you have shown and Still Show to our poor boy i cant express My
from Culpeper William Did not think of asking what it would cost to Send him on to his frinds the captain
a Coffin they buryed him as Decently as they could by pining him up in a thick woolen blanket the captain
Russell, which came to us through my sister Miss Stevenson.
is pleasant to know where one has excited an interest, & in asking you to acknowledge its receipt, my
My direction is to care of Charles P. Curtis, Boston. With regard, I am, Margaret S.
smoke; By these, crowds, groups of forms, vaguely I see, on the floor, some in the pews laid down; At my
staunch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white as a lily;) Then before I depart I sweep my
resume as I chant—I see again the forms, I smell the odor; Then hear outside the orders given, Fall in, my
smoke, By these, crowds, groups of forms vaguely I see on the floor, some in the pews laid down, At my
stanch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white as a lily,) Then before I depart I sweep my
resume as I chant, I see again the forms, I smell the odor, Then hear outside the orders given, Fall in, my
smoke; By these, crowds, groups of forms, vaguely I see, on the floor, some in the pews laid down; At my
staunch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white as a lily;) Then before I depart I sweep my
resume as I chant—I see again the forms, I smell the odor; Then hear outside the orders given, Fall in, my
smoke, By these, crowds, groups of forms vaguely I see on the floor, some in the pews laid down, At my
stanch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white as a lily,) Then before I depart I sweep my
resume as I chant, I see again the forms, I smell the odor, Then hear outside the orders given, Fall in, my
appeared uncorrected in the 5 January 1884 issue of the Critic with the title, A Backward Glance on My
combined with two other pieces of journalism (How I Made a Book, Philadelphia Press, 11 July 1886; My
others . . . want but I am glad to get along and be most well I can allways always find work again My
friendly gifts in time of need may god help you throu through this world of trouble I had bad luck with my
ltter letter for me when I first came to the hospital I am glad to from eny one anyone write again my
Now wait till I get my dress fixed and Papa waited and then she fell over & never spoke another word
Mannahatta [My city's fit and noble]
(1871 Leaves).In the opening line of the poem Whitman asks for "something specific and perfect for my
I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon, lo!
there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient; I see that the word of my
my city! The city of such women, I am mad to be with them!
I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city, and behold!
there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient, I see that the word of my
my city! The city of such women, I am mad to be with them!
I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon lo!
there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient, I see that the word of my
my city!
I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon lo!
there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient, I see that the word of my
my city!