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pretty well—I am miserable—he knew me so well—we had already such good times—& I was counting so much—My
Dear Sir: I have not, as yet, received any proof of the Carol of Harvest I neglected to mention, in my
would like that I c'd get up here, you write me, & it w'd be a pleasure to me to get it—I send George my
Ontario, Canada —and one to John Burroughs, Esopus-on-Hudson, New York — I write in N Y, but the above is my
with the $10, hereby receipted — I appreciate the "Dogberry" article not only for its bearing on me & my
half-way to England—I have rec'd John Burroughs' new book —warm sunny day here—I am going out with my
AS I sit with others, at a great feast, suddenly, while the music is playing, To my mind, (whence it
.— My stories, I believe, have been pretty popular, and extracted liberally.
"The later years of the last century," he tells us, "found the Van Velsor family, my mother's side, living
My father's side—probably the fifth generation from the first English arrivals in New England—were at
"In February, 1873," he tells us, "I was stricken down by paralysis, gave up my desk, and emigrated to
And it is to my life here that I, perhaps, owe partial recovery (a sort of second wind, or semi-renewal
young hickory sapling out there—to sway and yield to its tough-limber upright stem—haply to get into my
I have never made any full statement on religion in any of my writings but I have always intended to.
W. saying of it to me: "Eddy appeals to my heart, to my two arms: I seem to want to reach out and help
But for myself I do not feel that I could be overwhelmed by any misfortune that left my mind untouched
I came across the book this last summer, and it laid hold of my mind so that I could not put it away
But I got my roots stronger in the earth—master would not do anymore: no, not then: would no longer do
I must give you a copy then: I must have several here: he is one of my old—as also new—enthusiasms.
I insist on my cheap little figure"—here he raised his right foot into view and pointed to it with his
an argument: then, beyond all that, I should say this is anyhow not a question to be argued: after my
I took the slip out of my pocket and did so.
I folded the letter and the slip together, put them back in my pocket and looked at W. "Well?"
I twice questioned my informer before I could believe it."
"He flung it down at my door, as though the fellow meant some injury: an Italian would have handled it
I remember Thoreau saying once, when walking with him in my favourite favorite Brooklyn—"What is there
My friends laugh, and say I am getting Conservative—but I am tired of mock radicalism.'
"Well, honour honor is the subject of my story," —was the commencement of a favourite speech with him
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
As every one is immortal, I know it is wonderful; but my eyesight is equally wonderful, and how I was
conceived in my mother's womb is equally wonderful.
I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy
All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own, Else it were time lost listening to me.
When I was in New York—the trip seven or eight years ago—he called on me, put a cab at my disposal: was
to take in the character of our work: they want their sonatas, songs, odes—yet I would not turn on my
I helped him across the room: very poorly on his legs: leaned heavily on my arm.
One of my chief delights in it is for this—that here is a woman who shows a capacity for diving down
I turned the bundle over in my hands. "It 'sIt's an important looking package of papers," I said.
I would come in he woke up, and I would lean down and kiss him, he would reach out his hand and pat my
he wandered a good deal of the time—I would say "Erastus, don't you remember me—don't you remember my
In my limited talks with him he told me about his brothers and sisters, and his parents, wished me to
Farewell, dear boy,—it was my opportunity to be with you in your last days,—I had no chance to do much
I send you and all Erastus' brothers and sisters my love.I live when at home in Brooklyn, New York, in
Yet said in reply to my question: "I can say I am here—little else, nothing else."
Gets great pleasure out of my recital of average experiences—particularly street incidents: likes me
He asked me about my reading.
I can't see that it leads to anything worth while: but I 'mI'm not responsible for it: I wash my hands
I drifted into fuller details of my talk with Brinton.
beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my
As I see my soul reflected in Nature, As I see through a mist, One with inexpressible completeness, sanity
For they do not conceal themselves, and cannot conceal themselves. 9 O my body!
likes of the soul, (and that they are the soul,) I believe the likes of you shall stand or fall with my
poems, and that they are my poems, Man's, woman's, child's, youth's, wife's, husband's, mother's, father's
O MY children! O mates!
beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my
As I see my Soul reflected in nature, As I see through a mist, one with inexpressible com- pleteness
O my body!
likes of the Soul, (and that they are the Soul,) I believe the likes of you shall stand or fall with my
beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my
As I see my soul reflected in Nature, As I see through a mist, One with inexpressible completeness, sanity
For they do not conceal themselves, and cannot conceal themselves. 9 O my body!
likes of the soul, (and that they are the soul,) I believe the likes of you shall stand or fall with my
poems, and that they are my poems, Man's, woman's, child's, youth's, wife's, husband's, mother's, father's
Whitman inscribed this photograph: "My 71st year arrives: the fifteen past months nearly all illness
work—smoothing out the irregularities, wrinkles, and what they consider defects in a person's face—but, at my
.; uva.00601 My hand will not hurt what
Sir: A few days since I gave to the Secretary of the Interior my opinion in favor of the payment of your
Gomez, omitted in my communication of the 13th inst. I have the honor to be, &c. &c. &c. Wm. M.
It was the purpose of my letter of the 13th inst. to inform you politely of a result, and I did not then
Tracy, which you refer to me, relates to a matter over which my Department has no control.
Sir: Referring to my letter to you under date of the 24th ult. relative to the escape from jail of the
Sir: I think it my duty to transmit for your information the copy of an unofficial letter which I have
It is therefore not in my power to furnish you with any information upon the subject of the missing contents
I am sure that if no unexpected business comes to this office, and my health holds out in this hot weather
Sir: The case of John Pierce, brought to my notice by your letter of the 23d inst. shall receive immediate
on margin how many copies he wished if any, and have paper downstairs, so I could get in morning on my
voice speaking, As to you Rebellious, (I seemed to hear her say,) why strive against me, and why seek my
AS I sit with others, at a great feast, suddenly, while the music is playing, To my mind, (whence it
thee, Thy smile, eyes, face, calm, silent, loving as ever: So let the wreath hang still awhile within my
voice speaking, As to you Rebellious, (I seemed to hear her say,) why strive against me, and why seek my
New York, Feby 6/92 My dear Mr.
Monthly Magazine"—containing an article which I humbly beg you may accept as a feeble expression of my
I am not at all afraid of my handwriting appearing on the printer's copy— Walt Whitman to William Sloane
Enclosed two copies my latest f'm Lippincott's Dec —Nothing very new—Cold weather grip & bladder bother
Aug, 28. 1889 My dear Whitman, I send enclosed a proof of an engraving by Closson from Innes's beautiful
Sunday My dear Mr. Whitman I enclose the only one of the Herald contributions I have recently seen.
—A pressure of business, only, has pre evented my coming out among the "friends of yore," and the familiar
I received your book some three weeks ago when I was preparing for my half yearly examinations and as
Camden Aug: 28 '89 y'rs of yesterday has come & welcome—I am feeling fairly enough to-day, after one of my
know you want to hear—Pretty much "the same subject continued" yet with me—I am still imprisoned in my
No. 39 PARK ROW, New York, Aug 8 186 7 My dear Sir: I was very much gratified to receive your fine Harvest
In my opinion, it marks a new era in American Literature; and is to stand out more and more prominently
My dear Sir: Your esteemed favor containing poems submitted for the Arena received;—and in reply would
Burlington Vermont—— allmost almost begging for victuals—or provisions at times—Yet hope to surpass my
Pennsylvania , Dec. 29 th 188 4 Walt Whitman Esq Camden, New Jersey Dear Sir: My friend Col.