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& comfortable enough, but horribly crippled & banged up—Spirit moved me to write you a line & send my
I have listen'd listened to his preaching so often when a child, and sat with my mother at social gatherings
with the portraits & the other extracts from your writings — With respect & high esteem Believe me My
theories keep favorable sufficiently markedly—pulse good—a fairly movement bowel this forenoon—& eat my
Stevens street Camden New Jersey U S America Dear Sir I send you by same mail with this the circular of my
thanks for the paper wh- comes regularly & is always interesting to me—Second, I send you a Volume of my
My dear Burritt: This article " Walt Whitman in Europe " set close, would make about two-thirds of a
I am writing this at my desk in the Attorney General's office, by a great open window, looking south,
328 Mickle Street Camden Oct: 13 My dear Williams I should like the little Presidential canvass poem
received —and I send you some thoughts of mine on Burns—(a much belabored subject—but I wanted to have my
has been & may be again—think of you every day as we all do—many inquiries ab't you—have a big Vol (my
this)—the last date fixed by Dr B starting hither was 18th (next Monday)—Ab't as usual with me—(but my
letter came—but I wish it had bro't me better news than that ab't the eyes—I still remain coop'd in my
Camden PM May 18 '88 Rose late this forenoon & very miserable—half a cup of coffee for my breakfast—but
present—I send you "Unity" and "Liberty" —I send U to Eldridge and Burroughs — Nothing markable in my
Camden Evn'g: Jan: 15 '91 Feeling fairly after two very bad days & nights—ate my supper with relish—many
The book "Holland" rec'd —thanks—have just had my supper, some stew'd mutton & rice—It is 6 but quite
My dear old friend I want to be present to congratulate you on your seventieth birthday, and to tell
the friends—to say that matters go on with me much the same—& to enclose a printed slip, "Old Poets," my
Camden, New Jersey July 7th, 1876 My dear Reid: I send a piece for the paper, on Custer's death.
I send you to-day by mail, to same address as this card, my volume, "Two Rivulets".
8 Bullfinch Place Wednesday Evening September 7th My dear Mr.
Camden May 1 My dear friend I have come up from White Horse, & think of visiting you tomorrow Wednesday—towards
friend Ch: Johnson a few evenings since on the ferry—had quite a talk about you, &c— Nothing very new in my
Philadelphia , July 6 1882 My dear friend If entirely convenient I wish you would find out whether there
Camden N J Dec 9 '83 A young workingman & engineer, Edward Doyle, (brother of my dear friend Peter D.
Bielby—will be in my room to-morrow, Wednesday, from 10 to 11 ½ forenoon—Will always be happy to have
take from my lips this kiss; Whoever you are, I give it especially to you; So long!
cheerfully accept, A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money— these, as I rendezvous with my
If in his barouche, I can see from my window he does not alight, but sits in the vehicle, and Mr.
"Shining Shores," also called "My Days are Swiftly Gliding By," was written by David Nelson in 1835,
My days are swiftly gliding by, and I a Pilgrim stranger, Would not detain them as I fly, those hours
We'll gird our loins my brethren dear, our distant home discerning.
The sounds and scene altogether had made an indelible impression on my memory.
.; "Shining Shores," also called "My Days are Swiftly Gliding By," was written by David Nelson in 1835
—not intended to be polished off—left purposely a little in the rough— I suppose you rec'd my cards—You
Johnston on September 1, 1887, "He advertises...to sell my photo, with autograph.
A glance at the Sunday Times notice recalls to my attention a sentence therein I sh.d should perhaps
30, 1868, Whitman informed Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Proud Music of the Storm" was "put in type for my
If my article on you should appear in any american magazine, I should like to have sent a copy.
Clausen, who Rudolf Schmidt called "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he
or half-bad weather here—but I go out a little in the wheel-chair —was out yesterday—have just had my
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
entitled "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" and sixty-five poems; while the second, "Good-Bye my
criticism—when it comes I shall have it carefully translated to me—if you communicate with him, please give him my
Clausen, who Rudolf Schmidt called "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he
"Walt Whitman's Last," an "explanation" of his book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), was published in the August
eternities, the one past and the one to come, and it is a delight to me to feel satisfied, and to feel in my
Noyes is in town he was on my car yesterday (sunday) & he looks first rate i told him i sent you the
In his letter to Doyle on October 2, 1868, Whitman begins: "You say it is a pleasure to get my letters—well
And after I had gone on with my description, "How much does it come to?
Said, "I will have my right hand put into the water; no matter about my left."
Said, "This is one of my weakest times."
Button would like the champagne, "Give it to him with my best love."
The questions you ask are not such as, in my opinion, it is his duty to answer.
Since my dispatch of last night, I have seen the President, who directs me to say to you that your immediate
Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith my accounts as Disbursing Clerk for the Department of Justice
meet and drawing their love in Never losing old friends, or new ones; and finding new on every day of my
I meant that you should discover me so, by my faint indirections; And I, when I meet you, mean to discover
cheerfully accept, A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money —these as I rendezvous with my
Thither every-day life, speech, utensils, politics, per- sons persons , estates, Thither we also, I with my
I meant that you should discover me so, by my faint indirections, And I, when I meet you, mean to discover
August now;) You pallid banner-staves—you pennants valueless—you over- stay'd overstay'd of time, Yet my
. * *The two songs on this page are eked out during an afternoon, June, 1888, in my seventieth year,