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Camden N Jersey July 22 '76 A R Spofford Dear Sir The editions of my Leaves of Grass , as within specified
Stevens street Camden, N Jersey—U S A I have to-day forwarded by mail, to same address as this card, my
I wont weary you by saying more than to express my heartfelt sympathy & thankfulness & good wishes .
—Glad to hear from you, & would send you my writings, gladly.
As I sit here looking up Brattle Square Cambridge from my proof-room window, the gay elastic children
328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey May 31 '87 My dear T W Will you do something for me, in the Press
Camden NJ America Thursday Evn'g Oct 4 '88— Still keeping my sick room but fair spirits & no worse—great
My address is Attorney Gen's office, this city.
thing take its course—I do not expect the bill to pass—I am ab't as usual—a bodily wreck—did you get "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
with any thing else, or any information I shall be happy to do so— Walt Whitman the best likeness in my
I am pretty well—& all goes well enough to be thankful for in my affairs.
My Dear Sir: In Baldwin's Monthly for July there was quite a long article relating to yourself, written
going for two weeks to write special letters of thanks &c to you & T D for your kindness & labors in my
Street Camden New Jersey Feb. 17 '87 Every thing very much the same with me—quite completely disabled in my
Published Monthly OFFICE OF THE GALAXY No. 39 Park Row, New York , Aug 13 186 7 My dear Sir: I send the
Published Monthly OFFICE OF THE GALAXY No. 39 Park Row, New York , May 2 186 8 My dear Sir: To be in
condition a point of honor —If used please send me the pay here, also the paper, as this place will be my
Apl 13 th 18 70 My dear sir, I fear that the "Passage to India" is a poem too long and too abstract for
My address is at this office.
Whitman:— I send you a little token of my esteem as a birthday present.
hot spell here —It is clouded over a little to day—, —some relief—I have no news to write you ab't my
chair —was out yesterday—feeling dull & leaden four or five days—nothing very new—some oysters for my
3d day—havn't taken any medicine in a long time—(no doctors here 3 or 4 months)—sent the big b'k to my
am trying to get the E[lias] H[icks] paper presentable—but hard work—but I keep at it obstinately (my
out clear & inspiriting—y'r letter comes—Ed has been down to the bank to deposit some cheques for me —My
Clark Dear Sir, In answer to your note I send enclosed a copy of my poem for Tuft's College on the 17th—which
condition being a point of honor —If used, please send me the pay by mail here, as this place will be my
are at Northampton, Mass:—all well—(B[eatrice] is at the Woman's Hospital Boston)—This place is still my
letter from T B Aldrich Boston—he buys the big book (sending $25 for it) —Am feeling well (for me)—pass my
I have had it put in type for my own convenience, & to insure greater correctness.
the stock names on the womens' (Williams') side was Kossabone (doubtless Causabone) (Jenny Kossabone my
I have been prostrated by the heat into even more than my usual disability, but trust I am getting around—Respects
street June 14—11 a m Dear friend I am afraid to venture out much in the heat of the day (as part of my
New Jersey—U S America Evn'g M'ch 3 '91 Snow storm & east wind the last twenty hours—have just eaten my
My reading for the last two or three days (limited) of the articles in Century about Kearsarge and Alabama
America Sept. 5th I send today, same address as this card my two volumes.
continuous subscription, safely rec'd —I am in good heart & still writing a little but near the end of my
evening from a week's stay at White Horse —am feeling pretty well for me—heard of your call during my
Please give me, (as under Section 6 of your Copyright Directions of 1882), the 14 years renewal of my
My dear Mr.
25 Dear John Burroughs I havn't been able to think of any thing worth while in the way of a name—to my
Camden N J June 2 '82 Dear Baxter My friend John Sands, a veteran magazine & newspaper writer, has just
Philadelphia by cars & ferry—but bad, very bad spell all night—Eat my breakfast this morning, & here
the Bolton friends —am sitting here as usual— aff: regards to Mrs & Mr C[ostelloe] & the Smiths —took my
I hear—All well as usual with me—hot weather—light eating—frequent bathing—the bladder botheration my
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
The States—but I cannot tell whither or how long; Perhaps soon, some day or night while I am singing, my
; And it seems to me if I could know those men, I should become attached to them, as I do to men in my
you read these, I, that was visible, am become invisible; Now it is you, compact, visible, realizing my