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here is this old Africa & very unhappy send a message to you in America who are helping me to bear my

They were among the last things we ever read together but a few weeks ago in England when my life seemed

I am reading your poems now again alone & in the bitterness of my heart in this place to which I have

come to struggle with my sorrow.

dead love & my living grief.

London Saturday 23 Sept. 1876 Dear Walt Whitman I have received your volume and thank you heartily My

Also included in this manuscript is a draft of That Shadow My Likeness, first published in New-York Saturday

This poem later appeared as Calamus No. 40, Leaves of Grass (1860); as That Shadow My Likeness, Leaves

.00986My Native Sand and Salt Once MoreJuly 25 '81—Far Rockaway LI1881prose4 leaveshandwritten; A draft of My

City Point Va Feby 16th 1865 My Dear Friend, The Box for your brother, Captain Whitman, was sent on the

My Dear Poet: I would be very glad to go to Philadelphia to take part in the testimonial in your honor

My Dear, "Good, Gray Poet.

I thank you, my dear sir, for your remembrance, and shall cherish it as long as I shall live.

The Herald, New York, Sept 23, 188 8 My Dear Whitman: How can I tell whether this brings pleasant or

251 F 30th Thursday Evening Jan 21 '69 My dear Mr Whitman, I thank you for your thoughtfulness in sending

Whitman, Dear Friend I received your kind and ever welcome letter from you and glad to hear that my brother

Flat bush L I Nov 12 th From time of your health I will surety to my Ch arles Hine ) til form how he

I have two of your books, Leaves of Grass, and Two Rivulets ; they have been a light to my steps, these

My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years. Ed. Richard Ellmann. New York: Viking, 1958.

(Pleas'd to my soul at death I cry,) Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we

(Pleas'd to my soul at death I cry,) Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we

My ties and ballasts leave me . . ." ("Song of Myself," section 33).

. . and I split off with the radicals, which led to rows with the boss and 'the party,' and I lost my

My dear Walt Whitman I send you on behalf of Trübner & Co a draft for $14.43 for 39 copies of "Democratic

I remain my dear Walt Yours Sincerely Josiah Child Josiah Child to Walt Whitman, 20 October 1888

July 10 th 1880 My dear Walt Whitman.

I remain My dear Walt Whitman Yours Faithfully Josiah Child Josiah Child to Walt Whitman, 10 July 1880

My Dear Walt Whitman: I thank you more than I can say for your autograph in my book, and also for the

With every felicitation, and with all my heart, I am sincerely and gratefully yours Josephine Webling

My dear Walt Whitman: I am writing to you reverently and humbly and yet with a feeling that I may do

the practice to cheer them up with presents—and, as I believed that your "Leaves of Grass" would give my

I have lately abandoned my intention—half-formed—of trying to earn my living at the bar—and I am uncertain

Amongst other things, if it is not done before I can put my hand to it, I will, if you will give me leave

knowledge as the digesting by time can alone give—of your poems, and I need not add that if it came in my

I am afraid that my letter is growing to a much-too-great size, but there is one more topic.

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

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

Whitman:— During my absence your note of the 4th, inst was left here by Mr. Traubel.

The bearer of this is my son —who inherits his father's admiration for you.

Lippincott's Monthly Magazine Philadelphia, Oct. 10— 18 90 My Dear Mr. Whitman.

writing to you, and I take the opportunity of sending a few lines in his letter , as a slight token of my

My dear Poet: I spent last evening in fighting for you, in reading you, and, in a feeble way, expounding

up the balance, and that moreover, adulation would as soon turn the head of Moosilanke Moosilauke , my

My friend Baxter sent us his copy of your big book with notes, one or two, from you, pasted in.

I send you my heartiest wishes for the prolongation of your noble life in content and in as great a measure

I dont don't suppose there Has a day past over my Head without me thinking of you.

Poor Jo Adams Im I'm sorry he is a fine fellow tell him I send him my pies pious regards and hope he

Well Walt I will endevor endeavor to give you a rugh rough scetch sketch of my wanderings since I seen

You know I could not content my self in Phila.

money from the Centennial went down to my sister's she was not at home but Annie, Johnny's Wife was

will find you the same Business is very dull Here now and crops is ruined for the want of rain. all of my

worment torment of of mind and toil of body is of no avil avail feafuly fearfully in want now and when my

future looks dark But may come out Better than I amagn imagine I will Buy some Hogs on a credit and feed my

Feb. 16th '87 My Dear Walt. This morning I had occasion to call at the house of a Mr.

So I defer my visit to you.

My wife and I Earnestly hope we may see you at our house soon.

All my Thought of late, Walt, is of you, and your great work.

All other books seem to me weak and unworthy my attention.

My wife appreciated the difference greatly .

Pallid Wreath" was published in the Critic on January 10, 1891; the poem was also reprinted in Good-Bye My

Commemoration Ode," which has often, since its publication, been contrasted with Whitman's own tribute, "O Captain

My Captain!" For further information on Whitman's views of Lowell, see William A.

man for his autograph, but if I could see your name, written by yourself, on the fly leaf it would be my

sixty-five poems that had originally appeared in November Boughs (1888); while the second, "Good-Bye my

Hda de El Rosario Jesus Maria Chihuahua Mex October 27 de/89 My dear Mr Whitman Your kind package of

a long time on road I was delighted I assure you to get them and they occupy the foremost place in my

of the old familiar faces—but I seem to be hoping against fate—as the manager here will not accept my

While I appreciate his valuation of my services I would prefer to go East—but have been treated too kindly

My Dear Mr Whitman It seems to be but yesterday that I saw you riding on the cars talking to the driver

again, it seems ten years, since I felt the old home Your photograph greets me every time I go into my

One of my friends came in the other day & said, "you have still got his picture hung up," & I said "yes

New Mexico, has changed me so My Dear Mr Whitman that you would not recognize me.

on the prairie with no house or food in sight when night came & had nothing to do but to roll up in my

My dear Mr.

year the weather being really too hot in the middle of the day I will not make this letter any longer my

New Year's Day 1891 My Dear Mr Whitman I can not let the New Year go by, without wishing you "A Happy

March 24/88 Dear Mr Whitman My father and other members of the "Society of Old Brooklynites" are anxious

May 21 - 87 My dear Mr.

delighted to have been the means of giving to future generations a portrait of you that is certainly one of my

My Dear Friend, I think I have all of your books (2 or 3 Editions of some) except the last, —specified

in my former note, —which alone I intended to ask for.

My Dear Friend, W.H.

Piper , using my name.

My love to the O'Connors.

1870, letter to Trowbridge, Whitman announced that he had "engaged in electrotyping a new edition of my

year or more ago of some Boston publisher, or bookseller, who was willing (or perhaps wished) to sell my

See John Townsend Trowbridge, My Own Story (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903), 265–67.

A happy New Year, my dear friend!—And here is a lot of luck for your new vol. of "Leaves."

Somerville Mass Jan 6th, 1865 My Dear Friend, I have been thinking much of you lately & wondering where

A great change has taken place in my life since I saw you.

My dearest friend has left me, leaving in her place a little boy, now eleven months old.

LeBarren LeBaron Russell, with your note in my hand, but failing each time, I gave him up .

I feel that, if I live frugally ' sincerely, and do not use up my mental energies in rapid writing I

biography, The Ferry Boy and the Financier (Boston: Walker and Wise, 1864); he described their meetings in My

Though Trowbridge was not an idolator of Whitman, he wrote to O'Connor in 1867: "Every year confirms my

My dear Walt.

from the booksellers for the present, so I sent you today a package of such books as I could pick from my

Good-bye, my dear friend, and may the good angels help you in your good work. J. T. Trowbridge.

biography, The Ferry Boy and the Financier (Boston: Walker and Wise, 1864); he described their meetings in My

Though Trowbridge was not an idolator of Whitman, he wrote to O'Connor in 1867: "Every year confirms my

See Trowbridge, My Own Story, with recollections of noted persons (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903), 179

Walt Whitman— My Dear Friend: I enclose a P.O. order for $10, in payment for a copy of your last book

biography, The Ferry Boy and the Financier (Boston: Walker and Wise, 1864); he described their meetings in My

Though Trowbridge was not an idolator of Whitman, he wrote to O'Connor in 1867: "Every year confirms my

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.

Somerville February 12, 1864 My dear Walt Whitman.

I have seen the new moon over my right shoulder to some purpose lately.

Give my love to the O'Connors. Good bye. Your friend, J. T. Trowbridge John T.

biography, The Ferry Boy and the Financier (Boston: Walker and Wise, 1864); he described their meetings in My

Though Trowbridge was not an idolator of Whitman, he wrote to O'Connor in 1867: "Every year confirms my

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.

Of the O'Connors, Thomas Jefferson Whitman wrote on June 13, 1863: "I am real glad, my dear Walt, that