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evening and he and Baynton his partner in Jersey is to come here this afternoon that is the cause of my
but there is so many things to be considered) i sent and got the sun Sun to see how the election went my
1873 12th of January My dear walt Walt it seems like an age till i got your letter to day i was glad
well my dear walt Walt how are you this morning i would very much like to come in and see you and get
Jeff on February 8, 1873 that he was unable "to move from one room to the other" and so "can but send my
11 Nov. 1868 My dear Walter i got both of your letters one the last of last week and the other on monday
1868 march 11 evening My dear Walt i have nothing to write this week i have got all out of news) but
wensday Wednesday afternoon my dear walt i have got your letter with the 5 dollars and am oblige obliged
with much pleasure i make no doubt as the evening is so tedious as i cant can't work much if i doo do my
12 April 1873 My dear walt Walt i have just receeved received your letter this stormy morning with the
sombody somebody to talk a little with i should feel releeved relieved so i have to bother you with my
10 Oct '71 tuesday Tuesday morning O c 10 My dear walt Walt i had company yesterday so i dident didn't
daughters has their own to attend to which is perfectly natural) george George and loo and Jeff insists on my
but houseroo m at any rate i shant shan't break up as long as i can get around if i lo s e the use of my
suppose they do it for the best they think i live so lonesome) but worry about me breaking up i have had my
Tuesday 1868 November 10 My dear Walter i have received your letter to day although it was short it was
suffered very much so pressed for breath poor little boy it made me feel real sad he and Janey was up in my
you will send me ten dolls dollars not all at one time but if you can send me 5 at the next writing my
difference but i doo do feel sometimes if i could have something except the regular fare i should like it as my
28 Feb. 1873 Saturday noon My dear dear walt Walt i have just got your letter the money came all safe
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
—1868 July 1 My dear Walt i got your letter yesterday and the money order and magazine and two papers
well if not better than i was last summer i dont don't take any kind of medicine now only bath bathe my
1867 August 1 my dear Walt i will try once more to write A line to say we are all about the same only
not, but if not, it is to be hoped you will now seek that Saviour who stands waiting to receive you— "My
All my sceptical rejection of creeds and dogmas is giving place to a sense of the eternal fitness of
In my blind unreasoning egotism I mistook the shadow for the substance, and thought that "religion" was
Forgive my illogical desultory manner of writing. I think you will understand all I would convey.
I found your letter and Mrs Gilchrists and Mr Carpenters on my return, and we were much alarmed at first
I can hardly tell about my trip, but when you return, it will be as well, and you have passed over so
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
was sick, and when I was taken sick, she very kindly stayed with us, and has taken all the care off my
Dear Sir:— I would be highly pleased to receive your autograph to place in my collection, and hope you
Room 56 Borden Block, Chicago, Feby 3d 188 7 My dear and honoured Walt Whitman:— It is less than a year
I was attracted by the curious title "Leaves of Grass", opened the book at random, and my eyes met the
In the "Spring Song" and the "Song of the Depths" my orbit responded to the new attracting sun.
Imagine that I have expressed to you my sincere conviction of what I owe.
The essay is my "first effort," at the age of 30.
Walt Whitman Esteemed Sir, Will you permit me to offer you, as emphasizing my appreciation of the melodies
its every drop distills something of the warm appreciation your exceptional creations have kindled in my
My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse, and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!
O dear to me my birth-things—All moving things, and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers
; Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands, or through
the Tombigbee, the Santee, the Coosa, and the Sabine; O pensive, far away wandering, I return with my
the graceful palmetto; I pass rude sea-headlands and enter Pamlico Sound through an inlet, and dart my
My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse, and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!
O dear to me my birth-things—All moving things, and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers
; Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands, or through
the Tombigbee, the Santee, the Coosa, and the Sabine; O pensive, far away wandering, I return with my
the graceful palmetto; I pass rude sea-headlands and enter Pamlico Sound through an inlet, and dart my
My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse, and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!
O dear to me my birth-things—All moving things, and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers
; Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of silvery sands, or through
the Tombigbee, the Santee, the Coosa, and the Sabine; O pensive, far away wandering, I return with my
the graceful palmetto; I pass rude sea-headlands and enter Pamlico Sound through an inlet, and dart my
fond thoughts my soul beguiled;— It was herself!
I've set my heart upon nothing, you see; Hurrah! And so the world goes well with me.
I set my heart at first upon wealth; And bartered away my peace and health; But, ah!
I set my heart upon sounding fame; And, lo! I'm eclipsed by some upstart's And, ah!
And then I set my heart upon war. We gained some battles with eclat.
visit was an important acknowledgment of his work, Whitman in turn publicly acknowledged Longfellow in "My
Specimen Days (1882) Whitman says of the region where he was born, "the successive growth-stages of my
The voyage itself appears again and again, in the narrative style of "Old Salt Kossabone" and "O Captain
My Captain!
notice, you Kanuck woods") became verses 6-10; and the lines on the half-page ("I am indifferent to my
Whitman's interaction with the children at a picnic for London's poor: "During the day I lost sight of my
I am taking this summer as a rest, I have finished my work at Oxford, and in the autumn I shall begin
I am paying a visit—it is a vacation—to Benjamin Jowett, the Head of my college, a venerable and dreadful
It makes one realize how much your generation—my father's generation—has done for progress, I only hope
My father is extremely well, and enjoying life. Mrs.
You must pardon my type writer & my gossiping letter, but I wanted you to know tha that I & all of us
It was very amusing—my part was to dance a ballet, which I did, in full ballet costume.
In a week now I go back to Oxford—to Balliol College, for my last year. It is a dear place.
My family live happily in London, though it is always fog there when there is frost—I should think they
But I don't, so I packed up my books and came here.
Alys is going to stay on a month & learn Italian & then in February she is going to Sicily with my mother
All my American friends—young men who have gone in for politics—are working with the Democratic party
I wish I had got this letter off in time to wish you a happy Christmas—but you must accept my somewhat
Crisis" refers to the public scandal that occurred when the Irish soldier and Member of Parliament Captain
Our delightful Summer is over, my people are in London, and I am back here in Oxford again.
They are all well in England I think—my mother is paying a short Temperance visit to N.Y.
This is my last term at Oxford—that dear place—after that I shall be free, and may turn up in America
I am anxious to try my hand in a modest way at it.
.— I assume this day, the whole debt of all I take my place by right among the sudorous or sweaty men
a handsomer man with be has better finer health and cleaner shaped limbs than I, who do business in my
This naval Captain has not been identified.
.; This naval Captain has not been identified.; Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm
The following officers were then unanimously elected for the ensuing year: Captain —WILLIAM H.
I think never since that hour can I read my well-worn "Leaves of Grass," without that vague imagined
request, I shall have the name of the man whose writings I most admire, in his own hand, and it will be my
Watersboro Sept 17th Mr Whitman I take the liberty of addressing you at the request of my cousin Milton
among our sick & wounded soldiers, who indeed must feel very grateful to meet with such a friend as my
My cousin seems to be gaining slowly, & his friends does not think him strong enough to return for two
dont know as she remember me but I do her how could I forget her if you see her pleas tell her I send my
last night we got payed off and to day it is rainey and wet so it quite uncomfortable you must excuse my
have been moving about so I aint had time well no more this time pleas answer this soon as you can my
The first several lines of the poem were published in 1880 as "My Picture-Gallery.
though shining out very brightly by fits and starts, seemed incapable of conveying any warmth, I took my
hat, which I was able to keep on my head not without considerable effort.
My flesh quivered with the bitter coldness of the air. My breath appeared steam. Qu-foo-o!
I gave an extra pull of my hat over my brows—a closer adjustment of my collar around my shoulders, and
way homeward, imbue my fancy with a kindred glee and joyousness!
Like the bachelor-speaker of "My Boys and Girls," the speaker here knows that the way to keep his heart
Childhood here, as in "My Boys and Girls," calls up other reminders of the sorrows of the world and especially
"My child!" she cried, in uncontrollable agony, "O! my child!"
This sentence and the preceding one, beginning "My child," first appeared, with minor differences, in
first sentence was revised further for publication as "Little Jane:" in "The Reformed," it reads "'My
she cried, in uncontrollable agony, 'my child! you die!'" Then there was silence awhile.
.; This sentence and the preceding one, beginning "My child," first appeared, with minor differences,
first sentence was revised further for publication as "Little Jane:" in "The Reformed," it reads "'My
she cried, in uncontrollable agony, 'my child! you die!'"
the best society of the civilized world all over, are to be only reached and spinally nourish'd (in my