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My city's fit and noble name resumed, Choice aboriginal name, with marvellous beauty, meaning, A rocky
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!
Barcoure was a young man—like my hero.
Indeed it may be found, before the end of my story, that the right of main personage may lie between
advance any farther, it were well for me to remind the reader that I seek to paint life and men, in my
Sir, Having added the Editorship of this Magazine to my duties on the Pall Mall Gazette my thoughts at
its want of courage Will you write on the enclosed sheet of paper a few words that I shall treasure—my
My husband ("J.C.T.
but I am surprised to see that in Lippincott's (foot-note to p 381) you quote, instead of this, from my
Harrison's letters and have been comforting my soul with the idea that you prized the one I refer to,
fanciful imagination, whistled merrily, or moaned sadly, according to my thoughts.
emboldens me to ask whether my husband and I may not call upon you some day at your convenience.
Trautwine's note" in revising the Lippincott's piece for publication in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891): see
Whitman: I have been very much interested in your hospital work, of which I have heard through my brother
Lowell was his bitterest enemy: "'Lowell never even tolerated me as a man: he not only objected to my
at this benefit Lowell is said to have exclaimed, "This has been one of the most impressive hours of my
They were also nearly exact contemporaries, and Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!"
meet and drawing their love in Never losing old friends, or new ones; and finding new on every day of my
If I am so fortunate as to regain my health I hope to weaken the force of that statement, at least in
sofar as my talent & training will permit.
My artistic enthusiasm was never so thoroughly stirred up as by the indians They certainly have more
— Bloss Branched Le Verdure , blossom branch , fruit and vine The irregular tapping of rain off the my
withthelatestincrease.Iamto-day,(May31,1861,)justforty-twoyears old—for I write this introduction on my
To the best of my knowledge, pensive has not received any consideration in Whitman criticism, and yet
New-York is my birth-place.
Of my brothers and sisters I shall introduce only one, my brother Matthew, not quite two years younger
I was intended for the profession of the law; though, being lazy in my studies, it was not until my twenty-first
The very first day of my appearance there, about the middle of the morning, there came to see my master
My eyesight seemed to waver, my head felt dizzy, and a feeling of deadly nausea came over me.
that Walt acted as a substitute father to his brothers and sisters, as he suggests in an early story, "My
"I nourish active rebellion," Whitman challenges (section 14); "Camerado, I give you my hand!
with him I love" (1860 Leaves), but even for Whitman, the decision to publicly "tell the secret of my
Perhaps he was thinking of Vaughan when he wrote, "This the far-off depth and height reflecting my own
that he would "confront peace, security, and all the settled laws, to unsettle them" ("As I Lay with My
I opened the door, and stood for a moment on the threshold before I could find my voice to speak.
What was my horror when, right in the midst of the exposure, the old bard waved his hand majestically
14 May '68 thursday Thursday My dear Walt i write to tell you that janey maquire that is nanc Nancy brothers
went up stairs and went to bed and said nothing g ot up in the morning and was busy fixing the fire in my
write doo how you are i hope you wont won't get s ick i feel quite well since i have got better of my
1863 letter to Jeff Whitman reported a "bad humming feeling and deafness, stupor-like at times, in my
1871 febuary February 9 My dear walt Walt i write a few lines to say i received your letter yesterday
Hudson River horror is awful in the extreme it is enoughf enough to make one shudder) i am better of my
cold but are quite lame it seems as if the pain and lameness is all settled in my left knee i can walk
but yesterday i was quite bad but i think it will be better in a day or two i have had a weakness in my
right hand and wrist you can see by my writing it looks some like yours when your thumb was so bad how
6 9 june 8 My dear walt i got your letter and you may expect i was glad enoughf enough to hear you was
Brooklyn 8 July 1868 July th 8th My dear Walt i have received your letter to day wensday Wednesday dident
any change in your place but we must take things as they come no more this time walter Walter dear) my
hand is letter lame that the letter is wrote quite bad give my love to an mrs Mrs. oconor O'Connor and
Walt Whitman was proud of Dutch ancestry on his mother's side: "I may say I revel, even gloat, over my
with George Washington Whitman in the Fifty-first New York Volunteers, and he rose to the rank of captain
Mason who "used to be in my party on the Water Works" in his February 10, 1863 to Walt Whitman.
8 April 1873 My dear walt Walt i got your letter of sunday Sunday and monday Monday and the papers all
fereplaces fireplaces and its much cheaper to have stove pipes than firplac es what do you think of my
For the poem that he enclosed, see "Sea Captains, Young or Old," published in the April 4, 1873 issue
confined comments on his condition to two brief remarks, that he did "not feel very well" and that "My
30 Sept 1871 Saturday morning My dear walt Walt i thought i must send you a line to tell you i have got
My dear dear Walt i sat down and let every thing go to write this it seems so long since i have written
married is certainly the last one you would think as he always was set in his way) but as you say by my
he has gone home to day today Buffalow Buffalo he is very much attached to George he said when the Captain
Made Captain Aug. 1864—got a family in Buffalo" (Manuscripts of Walt Whitman in the Collection of American
Sims, a captain in George Washington Whitman's Fifty-first New York Volunteers, had been the subject
out, George only suffered a minor injury: "I have come out safe and sound, although I had the side of my
jaw slightly scraped with a peice of shell which burst at my feet" (see George's December 16, 1862 letter
his health had improved: "it is very healthy here this summer—I havn't been troubled by the heat yet—my
December 7 My dear Walt i got your letter yesterday morning it come real quick i was quite astonished
George said he dident didn't think lane expected it but i suppose he wanted to be ready i am better of my
lameness but not entirely over it my knee is so weak but i think it will get better after a while it
institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my
impeachment of Johnson '68 april April 7 My dear walt Walt we are having an awful rain storm and george
i feel better to day than i have for some time i have been troubled with the dissiness dizziness in my
Brooklyn 27 April 1867 saturday Saturday 2 oclock o'clock my dear Walt i have just receeved received
your letter with 1 dollar in it the rain perhaps deterd deterred my getting it earlyer earlier but i
lik like a foun tain so yesterday they stopped it george was mud from head to foot) walter dea r give my
My dear darling walter Walter i got your letter yesterday and saturday Saturday i am midling middling
to day have been not very well my head has been quite bad but i hope to get better dear i am glad you
are better dont don't send any more papers as i cant can't read my head gets confused) i know its it's
my nerves has got bad but i hope to get better of it in time good bie my dear blessed son An image of
Louisa described the later episode, probably a stroke, the following week: "my head and my very brain
6 March 1868 friday Friday the 6 My dear Walt i thought i would write again this week to tell you i had
coal but it held out till after the storm got a little settled and i got some) with the 5 that came in my
do he will stay till mr Lane sends an inspector out and then he is to inspect the new main he paid my
will get a nice black silk) i gess guess mrs price is like many others short of funds sometime walter my
tuesday Tuesday My dear Walt i received your letter on monday Monday glad to hear you get along so well
weather its it's hot to be shure sure but no use fretting about it well Walt i have been to day and had my
and one for myself i shall send han one in the package so you see walt Walt i bequeath something to my
My dear walt Walt i received your letter to day its a great consolation to get your letters nearly all
the comfort i have) as i have no one to talk too to about any of my own i get letters from helen price
without hearing mine they think Lou is in the family way and therefore she has to be kept up stairs in my
since i got up this morning till i come up to writ write this letter i have had very little good of my
am not feeling very well walter Walter dear i am very nervious nervous and have such a trembling in my
whole system my appetite is very poor dont don't know what ails me i feel bad maybee maybe nothing Lou
sending the $5 is not extant, in his April 30, 1873 letter he had promised to enclose the money in "my
the shortness of this letter, the deficiency of her handwriting, and her report of "a trembling in my
Whitman in his April 30, 1873 letter to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman promised to send "the other 5 in my
Dear Walter i write quite often d nt don't i you cant can't complain of my not writing i thought i would
wouldent wouldn't know what to doo do but i got the same old retort that it was me that was stingy with my
common thing to hear if i make any remark that i would like to have any thing why dont i get it with my
and think they expect too much from me i feel pretty well since the weather is cool but i am lame in my
write on a piece of paper loo se from the letter if you say any thing you nt want all to read you got my
Louisa Van Velsor Whitman struck through the phrase "money in the" after the word "my."
was a gentleman in the cars that said he would see to getting me a carriage i was just giving the man my
check for my valice valise i thought i would take that with me when Charley came up so i got along very
Oct October 5 my dear walt i send you the receipt for the money george has sent you by addams s express
Brooklyn May th 5 1868 My dear Walt it seemed quite a treat to get your letter you are the only correspondente
to look at any more houses but was going to wait for something to turn up i am quite lame in one of my
Made Captain Aug. 1864—got a family in Buffalo" (Manuscripts of Walt Whitman in the Collection of American
5 April 1870 Brooklyn Apri l April 5 My dear Walt i have just received your letter and the order all
walter Walter dear its it's in your power to deal so generously to your mother) i am rather better of my
11 Nov. '68 wensday Wednesday my dear Walter i received your letter yesterday it is the first i believe
the 6 oclock o'clock train georgy Georgey dident didn't want to go much i dont don't think it was on my
5 Dec. 18 '63 1 friday Friday night My dear Walt i write to night some of the particulars of Andrews
that came to watch he told mary he was dying and he could not dye die with them there they insisted on my
says he had telegraph to you i wish i could know the thruth truth about her) it made me feel bad with my
1873 march March 4 5 oclock o'clock dear walt Walt i suppose you have got my letter i wrote last saturday
and mrs Mrs. buckly be a kind of mother to me and little poor hattie Hattie it made the tears come in my
hot weather i think it would us both good so we must both get so we can walk without limping good bie my
inauguration day maybee it dont don't storm in washington Washington though) i am pretty well except a pain in my
knew all about his arrival at Anapolis Annapolis i saw his name in the times with 500 others arrived) my
brother George Washington Whitman had been exchanged, at least as of his February 27, 1865 letter to Captain
Walter it is so strange you hav e not got my letter I sent one last friday Friday morning and should
and have had all you have sent and come very acceptable I had got down to 10 cents you must have got my
told him I had hired so much of the house out he would have to hire his board write Walt if you got my
institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my
children is extremely well mat has has very much to doo do she is going to have a girl to work give my