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Studio 2 W. 14 th st New York Febr. 12 90 My dear sir I have delivered your book to Mr. Bancroft.
I take the pleasure to mail to you some proofs of my drawings and ask you to accept them with my kindest
Thanking you for your kindness at the occasion of my visit to you, and wishing you good health I am most
My Dear Sir On the 3d of Dec '81 I wrote you a letter kindly asking if you would not oblige me with your
"There spake my brother; (Lord Bacon) There my father's grave Did utter forth a voice!"
chase them round the school till they leave go or else tumble off i have not got a tumble yet thanks to my
are right at home i think you better settle down in canada in this letter isend i send you you one of my
boats with the man of war out at the zulu war and fetched always to england now i hope you will excuse my
bad writing and spelling for my sister give me a tallking talking to for my spelling the last time she
wrote i got a letter from mother to day and she told me that my brother had broke his arm but it is
Sir: Referring to my letter of the 3rd instant, enclosing a telegram from the United States Marshal for
were obstructed on the occasion mentioned, which give full particulars of the occurrences mentioned in my
Sir: My attention has been called by the Secretary of the Treasury to the probable fact of the custody
Acting Assistant Secretary of State: My dear sir: I have received and read the letter of Mr.
for naval purposes, I have to inform you that, the title to this property having been passed upon by my
Camden N.J My dear Sir As all has been completed about the vault and all works first class in every respect
you also will bring all the particulars of its constructing &c. wich which you have asked me for at my
able to see you while at your house last thursday I concludet concluded to write and state to you that 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.
to the oppressive factory conditions created by the capitalist factory owners that he called "The Captains
to the oppressive factory conditions created by the capitalist factory owners that he called "The Captains
Antonio Troiano, O capitano mio capitano (Crocetti 1990), betrays the influence had on this volume ("O Captain
My Captain!"
"It is wicked," says she, "to run the cars on Sunday, and I don't want anybody in my class that will
The clearest relation is to the line: "A minute and a drop of me settle my brain" (1855, p. 33), but
Henceforth After this day, A touch shall henceforth be small Little things is shall be are henceforth my
my tongue proof and argument It They shall tell s for me that people In them, the smallest least of
over all, and what we thought death is but life brought to a finer parturition.— An inch's contact My
The clearest relation is to the line: "A minute and a drop of me settle my brain" (1855, p. 33), but
Two of his poems ("O Captain! My Captain!"
Finally, the newspaper Ha'arets (11 October 95) printed Whitman's poem on Lincoln's assassination, "O Captain
My Captain!," as a tribute to Yitzhak Rabin's memory after his assassination.
"What is Yours is Mine, My Father: On One Poem by Walt Whitman."
Whitman My sister Bessie & I both thank you very warmly for the present you sent us of your book.
It is postmarked: Sheffield | 14 6 | MY 14 | 91; PAID | K | ; New York | May | ; Camden, N.J. | May |
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
things that troubled me formerly will have power to vex me no longer, I will be at ease, with you for my
Dear Father, As I always wish to fulfill my promises I will enjoy this afternoon in writing a letter
in order to let you know how I got home and how my health is So I left Washington that evening at 5 Oc
I went to the Soldiers Home and got my supper and took a good sleep I left Pittsburg a little after 2
to the door whar I had a grand interunion with my friends I found all of them in good health they were
If my friend is in the Hospital yet tell him I got home all right I guess I will close by biding you
Whitman asks Brown to allow Livensparger to read his letter and to tell him "that I sent him my love.
duk.00703xxx.01114Isaac Joseph Stephen JesseIsaac Joseph Stephen Jesse (my grandfather)...Between 1850
Isaac v Joseph Stephen & Jesse (my grandfather) sons of Nehemiah Whitman Phebe daughters Hannah Brush
"Revenge and Requital," the narrator concludes of the redeemed main character Philip that "Some of my
where the narrator reflects on his own death: "There is many a time when I could lay down, and pass my
In one scene where Whitman describes the death of a child, in the autobiographical "My Boys and Girls
fiercely, and rack my soul with great pain."
A Fact," a reader denoted solely as "R" explained in the letter: "My feelings were very much excited
[Oh captain! My captain!] O Captain! My Captain! Allá á lo lejos... [Far off...]
, turning sweetly towards me, You half-opened my shirt, plunging your tongue inside my chest unto my
dog and my gun by my side.
We came alongside at once, the ships' yards entangled, the cannons touched, My captain took part in the
I let forth a laugh as I hear the voice of my captain answer loudly: No! We do not lower it!
said in an 1888 conversation about the first edition that "I set up some of it myself: some call it my
tread scares the wood-drake and wood-duck on my distant and daylong ramble" ( [1855], 20).
good will, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering it freely forever.— Scattering
in a penciled revision into the single line "Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns,"
Good-Bye My Fancy: 2D Annex to Leaves of Grass. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891. .
might, in part, explain Whitman’s protest later in life to Horace Traubel that the pamphlet was “not my
the stories he had written approximately fifty years earlier, when, according to the poet, "I tried my
Wisdom" as Captain William A.
upon them without any of the bitterness and mortification which they might be supposed to arouse in my
The formal narration of them, to be sure, is far from agreeable to me—but in my own self-communion upon
Michael Winship has written in response to an email inquiry that: My working hypothesis is that there
He was a very handsome, healthy, affectionate, smart child, and would sit on my lap or hang on my neck
As his brief sketch "My Boys and Girls" indicates, he considered as his "children" sisters Mary and Hannah
in their midst....Who of my family has gone along with me?
the older brother had assumed: "he learn'd printing, and work'd awhile at it; but eventually (with my
soldiers: he found them "appealing to me most profoundly....Often they seem very near to me, even as my
first "cluster" of pieces in the definitive Osgood edition of Leaves of Grass (1881) he declared: "my
Walt Whitman later confided to Horace Traubel: "No one of my people—the people near to me—ever had any
found dear brother George, and found that he was alive and well, O you may imagine how trifling all my
One of the first things that met my eyes in camp, was a heap of feet, arms, legs, &c. under a tree in
"You don't know what it is, do you, my dear?" said he, adding, "We don't either."
When Whitman egged him to comment on “My Captain” (a poem Whitman himself several times ridiculed in
“O Captain! My Captain!”
Whitmanletsfly:“I’mhonestwhenIsay,damn‘MyCaptain’andallthe ‘My Captains’ in my book!
”thatturnedthepoetagainstit:“In some cases, as in Whitman’s ‘O Captain, My Captain,’ the high-water mark
My Captain!
My observations appear as footnotes.
That is not my goal; nor is it my goal to deal with, for example, the historical issues of Whitman’s,
Also, he is overly fond of O Captain! My Captain!
“O Captain! My Captain!” (Vol.
My Captain!”
It was publised with the revised title in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). Interpolation Sounds
It was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy in 1891, with the additional note: "General Sheridan was buried
One consideration rising out of the now dead soldier's example as it passes my mind, is worth taking
If the war had continued any long time these States, in my opinion, would have shown and proved the most
his introduction to the first German edition of Leaves in 1889, he claimed that "I did not only have my
own country in mind when composing my work.
of the lines only to reintroduce them in Sands at Seventy (1888), under the title Small the Theme of My
Both One's-self I Sing and Small the Theme of My Chant appeared in the 1891-92 edition of Leaves of Grass
of the lines only to reintroduce them in Sands at Seventy (1888), under the title Small the Theme of My
Both One's-self I Sing and Small the Theme of My Chant appeared in the 1892 edition of Leaves of Grass
In the 1888 November Boughs, however, Whitman reprinted the 1867 version as Small the Theme of my Chant
manuscript draft may have been written before the Civil War, since it does not include the 1867 line "My
Grass (1891–92), lines from this manuscript appear in both One's-Self I Sing and Small the Theme of My
original "Inscription" to the 1867 edition, ultimately appearing under the title "Small the Theme of My
My Days I sing, and the Lands—with interstice I knew of hapless War.
Ma y Mr Walt Whitman My dear Sir: In the July issue of the Bookmaker of which I send you two copies,
My heart bleeds for him—he feels terribly his situation; and to save such a man as—,is worth more than
encompass wider and wider realms of experience: "And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my
own, / And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own" (section 5).These mythic progenitors
you seem to look for something at my hands, / Say, old top-knot, what do you want?"
In Captain Church's history of Philip's war, there are innumerable incidents for the painter.
Towards the close of the war, when Philip's followers were nearly all slain, and his ruin near, the captain
Tho generous old captain, touched by the picture of the chief's distress, allowed him to seize his gun
loc.04741xxx.00946In writing my history of Brooklynabout 1862prose1 leafhandwritten; Brief note regarding
In writing my history of Brooklyn
Finally he hitched a little closer and leaned forward to look in my face.
But he nodded, and grinned and hitched again, bringing his face close to my ear, then in a voice husky
he finally yelled right in my ear.
1891prose1 leafhandwritten; Draft fragment of American National Literature, first published in Good-Bye My
first several lines of Pictures (not including these lines) were eventually revised and published as My
first several lines of "Pictures" (not including these lines) were eventually revised and published as "My
first several lines of "Pictures" (not including these lines) were eventually revised and published as "My
The first several lines of "Pictures" (not including this line) were revised and published as "My Picture-Gallery