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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

that fills the bill)—But the volume is more helpful to me (in touches, corrections, guidance &c to my

First, I am grateful to my colleagues at Valparaiso University, who encouraged me throughout my work,

lack of the poet’s gift so acutely as when I turn to write of my family.

We closed with him . . . . the yards entangled . . . . the cannon touched, My captain lashed fast with

(For 1863 and ’64, see my Memoranda fol- lowing)” (quoted in Myerson, 191).

regularly performed there, bya substitute, during my illness.

I gave W. the cards sent from my sister: "Herbert Spencer Harned—Dec. 2d." "Ah!

It seems to me just the day—these days of days: I have never known in all my experience such a series

W. said: "I only ask you to take care of that thing for me—to supply for my shortcomings."

Then to my look of inquiry: "I don't mean anything negative by that: it 'sit's mainly the slow maturers

Walt Whitman.Your card of the 24th came two days ago, not a little to my relief.

implied: I honor them: I know they are probably working in their own way to produce what I working in my

My general position is plain: the people: all the people: not forgetting the bad with the good: they

Ain't that my program?"

"He complains of the irregularity of my letters.

I am always statistically careful about the dates of my letters.

and from the facts which I have ascertained, I do not consider that it requires any further action on my

Sir: Though your letter of the 5th instant deeply moves my sympathy, it is impossible for me to interfere

the subject of a supposed murder of two Indians, near Alexandria, Minnesota, and to enclose a copy of my