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1873 Saturday Afternoon June 7 My dear Brother I wish I had written to you before, but first I could

here as anywhere and I will like to have you here, it wont won't make a straws straw's difference in my

Camden, 14 th Aug. '89 My dear Walt Whitman, Your welcome p'card of July 23 rd reminds me how the time

has slipped away since my last letter to you.

being quite crushed with the dead heat we have been having, and sick with obstinate bowel trouble and my

My belief in your getting better is invincible, for your stamina is indomitable.

I believe I even blushed a little to find my lines so bravely in evidence.

For my own part, I feel now that concentration is the one thing that I lack.

I took out an agreement for Mothers and my names at $19 33 per month Did you get my letter enclosing

seems such A short time since last winter but time wont won't wait for us well Walt i dident didn't get my

fool as to use all the money i had in the bank and save the other now i want it and wish i had saved my

consist of Washington Georgetown & Alexandria it is supposed that Mr Colfax will address the meeting In my

other letter i wrote you that my mother was sick i am happy to state that she has got entirely well.

employment for you—now I am here, crippled, laid up for God knows how long, unable to help myself, or my

about 3½ squares the other way, has I believe 6 or 7 cars—I get out & take a ride in them sometimes—my

M Chicago, June 1 st 18 89 My Dear Old Friend The enclosed I clipped from the Inter Ocean today, and

as this is my 48 th birthday, I am prompted by old recolections recollections to write you a few lines

we are now "on the eve of an important election," such meetings as I have attempted to describe in my

My belief is that New York and New Orleans have more identity of character and interest than any other

My last visit to Camden was early in October, before I went abroad.

An autograph letter of Walt's was sold in this city last Spring for $80 to my knowledge."

greater heroes and bards, They refuse to awake at the touch of any man but me: It is I, you women—I make my

babes I beget upon you are to beget babes in their turn, I shall demand perfect men and women out of my

suspend the case of Christian Priesendantz for a few days—but enclose for your information a copy of my

entries of certain lands at East Laginaw, Mich., by Charles Rodd and Henry Peter, which has received my

Sir: The Senate having requested the President to return to that body its resolution transmitted in my

Sir: Referring to my letter addressed to you under date of the 3d instant, relative to the case of Charles

Dear Sir: Your letter of the 16th ult. came in my absence.

But it is just to him to declare that, according to all my information, he is a zealous and faithful

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith, with my approval, the account of Albert H.

In reply I have to say that I do not feel at liberty to permit the use of my official title for the purpose

I regret that they were received too late for my Annual Report, which the law requires to be made in

I regret that it is not in my power to comply with your request. Very respectfully, A. J.

group of little children, and their ways and chatter, flow in, upon me Like welcome rippling water o'er my

Do you ask me what are my own particular dangers and complaints—what is taken that belongs to me—I complain

have communed together, Mine too such wild arrays, for reasons of their own; Was't charged against my

AS at thy portals also death, Entering thy sovereign, dim, illimitable grounds, To memories of my mother

over waves, toward the house of maternity, the land of migrations, look afar, Look off the shores of my

have communed together, Mine too such wild arrays, for reasons of their own; Was't charged against my

AS at thy portals also death, Entering thy sovereign, dim, illimitable grounds, To memories of my mother

for nearly a fortnight—John Burroughs has been here for a couple of days —he is well—nothing new in my

431 Stevens st cor West Camden N Jersey U S America April 4 '76 Robert Buchanan— My dear friend— I merely

Night before last I hardly slept any, & as a consequence am not able to use my eyes next day.

Bluebirds (a pair) building in my box. Also robin & golden woodpecker nesting in lane.

I shall go & show myself & say publicly a word or so, (as I wish to definitely show my identification

328 Mickle Street Camden Oct 12 pm My dear Williams After I sent your note in answer yesterday—& reading

howsoe'er, the hearts of toilers struggling here," would perhaps be a better idea than the one suggested in my

Grand Pacific Hotel Honoured Sir— & Dear Poet— I beg you to accept my appreciative thanks for your great

Dear Sir Will you be kind enough to send me your autograph for my private collection.

OFFICE OF Special Agent Treasury Department, Camden NJ 5.7., 1885. 10 am My Dear Walt.

Published Monthly OFFICE OF THE GALAXY No. 39 Park Row, New York , Sept 4 186 7 My dear Sir: I spoke

greeting to you, & to Mr C —also to Dr Bucke Best love to your father, mother & Logan I to-day enter on my

here several days, & now—So-so with me—nothing I suppose very bad, but bad enough—am sitting here in my

send you by him a parcel of portraits—tell me if they reach you in good order —Am feeling in one of my

L C Moulton is coming here this afternoon —I am reading Boswell's Johnson —My Elias Hicks plaster bust

My Dear Sir On the 3d of Dec '81 I wrote you a letter kindly asking if you would not oblige me with your

Sir: Would like to have say a four or five column article for the paper embodying the poems, &c. of my

I have not lately made any requests of my friends for more thinking you perhaps were well supplied for

Dear Sir: I have been badly pulled by the heat—am sick—(home here with my mother)—& would respectfully

this mn'g—seems to me a good piece of typographic work, type, paper, press work, & binding—pleases my

suppose you have rec'd received the "Specimen Days" I sent a while since —I am well as usual—reeling out my