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328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey April 24 '90 My dear Stoddart Can you use this in the magazine?

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

all in the wheel chair, or any other way—not once in a month—In other respects somewhat the same—eat my

Doughty & Maggie well—Warry still my nurse & satisfactory—Horace Traubel married & well—faithful as ever—So

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

Whitman's housekeeper, took care of both Harry and Warren after the death of their father, the sea captain

Monthly rejected four poems that Whitman had submitted ("Old Chants," "Grand Is the Seen," "Death dogs my

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

Camden April 16 '89 Nothing very different or new in my affairs—the past ten days bad rather—sort of

last rec'd—have no opinion or comment or suggestion to make —did you receive (& send on to O'C[onnor]) my

89 Y'r card just rec'd —papers come regularly—thanks—Nothing very different with me—Still imprison'd—my

dilapidation not mending (slowly gradually worse if any thing, but not much change)—am preparing my

35 quai des grandes Augustine"—279 pp. handy beautiful French style, paper—Nothing very different in my

affairs—the N Y Literary News for May has a notice —did you see that infernal farrago of my opinions

Jan 10 '88 Am sitting here by the fire alone early afternoon & will write you a few lines—have had my

machine—After a dark storm, (with snow,) nearly a week, the sun is out this afternoon & there is a half-thaw—My

Nothing delights me more—my limitations are so many.

was better three days ago, but weak & in bed—Dr B[ucke] here yet— I sit here alone same as ever, in my

thanked Walt Whitman for the copy of Complete Poems & Prose, and expressed his "admiration . . . with all my

love for one I considered, from my first reading of him, as one of the best and the greatest men of

Camden May 8 '89 Y'rs of 6th rec'd—thanks—yes, I am agreeable to your sending S[tedman] my former letter

O'C[onnor] (f'm the wife ) to day, & I am gloomy—Dr B[ucke] writes me every day & cheerily—Horace & my

13 P M '89 Nothing important—y'rs rec'd & welcomed—Dr B[ucke] writes me frequently—still anchor'd in my

Bucke's letter to me, mentioning y'r last wh' I lent him)—Nothing specially new or significant with my

Camden New Jersey Oct: 17 '89 Thanks for the nice currants (I have had some for my breakfast) & the good

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

your proposals—I have had several—For one point I should like some publishing & radiating spot near my

own locality—for another to retain control of my book & personally advise in selling & publishing it—Will

I want to publish my Prose writings in a companion volume to L of G—Then there is a Canada man who has

—I think profoundly of my friends—though I cannot write to them by the post office.

—I write to them more to my satisfaction, through my poems.— Tell Hector I thank him heartily for his

—I am so non–polite—so habitually wanting in my responses and ceremonies.

—I not only assured him of my retaining faith in that sect, but that I had perfect faith in all sects

—They retard my book very much.—It is worse than ever.

volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My

Camden Thursday Evn'g Oct: 4 '88 Still here in my sick room—everything much the same—Book printing &c

dinner, baked shad & champagne galore —jolly company —enjoy'd all with moderation —No, the Mr Smith, my

Costelloe, my staunchest living woman friend—the Librarian Logan Smith, (now dead) was his brother—Did

Louis where I remain'd nearly three months with my brother T.J.W.

(Thomas Jefferson Whitman), and my dear nieces" (Specimen Days, ed.

My dear Mr. Alden: Would the enclosed be considered opportune—& of use to you for The Citizen ?

Should you print the piece, I wish you to do me the favor to send ten copies by mail to my address here

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

Rand & Avery's Monday noon Sept: September 5 '81 My dear friend Although it is abominable for me to back

Camden Tuesday noon Jan 2 The snow is so heavy & the ferry obstructed so by ice I defer my coming for

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Feb: 20 '81 My dear Mr Longfellow A friend in Canada—to whom I am

am well as usual—always glad to hear from you—hope we shall be together again one of these days—give my

Camden New Jersey April 3, '91 Yes there were certainly 100 sets—I see by my memoranda book—50 to yr

My dear friend, I have just received your note.

, that whatever pieces are printed, I reserve the right to include them in any future collection of my

Private My dear Sir: I send herewith a proof of my poem, for convenience for use in your paper, should

I fear his hearers hardly comprehended his lines, or dreamed at what he was driving, and some in my immediate

Dear friend, Breaking up a few weeks since, and for good, my New York stagnation—wandering since through

camp and battle scenes—I fetch up here in harsh and superb plight—wretchedly poor, excellent well, (my

matters,)—realizing at last that it is necessary for me to fall for the time in the wise old way, to push my

wish you would write for me something like the enclosed form of letter, that I can present, opening my

It is pretty certain that, armed in that way, I shall conquer my object.

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America March 21 '80 I send today same address as this card, my

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

I thank you, dear sir, in their name, and in my own, as the organ of your charity.

My friend, I must meet you soon again.

you the Graphic, with piece by me, about the Capitol, which I suppose you rec'd—also same paper with my

& criticism by "Matador" —I have rec'd a letter lately from Eldridge—nothing new at Washington, in my

—Love to both of you—I am writing this up in my room—it is growing dark—I am going out to tea, to an

Freiligrath: I have sent you to-day by ocean mail, a copy of my latest printed Leaves of Grass —not knowing

My address is, Walt Whitman, Washington, D. C. U. S.

Dear friend, I suppose you got my postal card.

try to get around—have better spirits than I could expect—but on trial, the least exertion confuses my

But I am sitting here at present in my room, comparatively comfortable—& feel every hope that I shall

Lane and Probasco, a pretty plain schedule of the manner of my outlays of the sums sent by them to the

Nothing definite appears to-day about the status or movements of the Army of the Potomac, but my guess

one of the putty nosed scoundrel's temporary fits of ugliness, but a deliberate thing meant for good, my

About my own concerns here—I must tell you dear brother, my general idea was, (and is) to make application

, one letter to Seward, and one to Chase, which I hope, (and though I have well learnt not to count my

good outdoor days there—Have had a pretty severe attack of what appears to be (mostly) rheumatism in my

right shoulder—more pain to me last night than I have before felt any time, I think, in my whole life—besides

Ed, Harry & Debby, &c. well—Mr S. pretty well— Saturday & Sunday lots of Company —Am writing this in my

compliance with your request in letter of 28th I this day send you by mail to same address as this card my

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Nov: November 26 '80, p m My dear Gilder I wonder if you can help

about a year ago bo't bought at auction the electrotype plates (456 pages) of the 1860–'61 edition of my

book Leaves of Grass —plates originally made by a young firm Thayer & Eldridge under my supervision

Second I want my royalty for all he has sold, (though I have no idea of ever getting a cent.)

I am the sole owner of the copyright—& I think my copyright papers are all complete—I publish & sell

I would be willing to make you an immediate payment of $250.00 on account and will do everything in my

my book Leaves of Grass W. Whitman" (Whitman's Commonplace Book).

me—I am only middling well, but go about—rheumatism not yet subdued—threatens to partially disable my

United States, in their present devouring relations, controlling and belittling everything else, are, in my

March 13, 18 68 My dear Doctor, Your note has just come to hand, stating that you intend a visit to Washington

My friend, if that is your sole object here, & you depend upon any thing of that kind, (unless you have

In my condition they are trebly welcome.

My tedious prostration continues—primarily and mainly an obstinate & baffling cerebral affection, on

Yes, I shall, unless prevented, bring out a volume this summer, partly as my contribution to our National

Camden New Jersey US America Evn'g Sept 8 '89— Here I sit toward sunset in my big old chair in the 2d

story room in Mickle street wafting affectionate wishes over to you— Nothing new or notable in my affairs

I have to-day forwarded by Adams' Express prepaid to same address as this card— one set, Two Vols. my

I shall keep them carefully in my own hands until I see "Father Taylor" printed in the Magazine —If I

—I have recd a photo proof of my phiz I suppose from the flash light—I don't like it—I send you herewith