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Sir: In accordance with your request, I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of my letter of January

My dear Madam: I have received your letter of the 9th instant, and in reply beg to say that if you will

As a claim against the United States, it is clearly without my official province, & I must therefore

That he acted at the instance of the United States, however, is sufficient to authorize my consent to

the papers presented to me by Senator Dixon, copies of which are herewith transmitted, I deemed it my

No report has, within my knowledge, been made to you from this office, in relation to any violations

Sir: A few days since I gave to the Secretary of the Interior my opinion in favor of the payment of your

compensation allowed to counsel upon employment by this office, I feel that I am scarcely warranted in giving my

the suggestion that you reduce it to the sum I have indicated, which, being done, I will promptly add my

book sent March 24 Swanpool Falmouth Cornwall England— March•9•1891• Dear Sir My friend Mr Gleeson White

, (who called on you in November), I think mentioned my name to you as one fond of reading your books

My dear Whitman, The Voice of the Rain does not tempt me, and I return it herewith with thanks.

Aug, 28. 1889 My dear Whitman, I send enclosed a proof of an engraving by Closson from Innes's beautiful

May 24, 1881 My dear Mr.

I suppose I'm thin-skinned too, sometimes: I never get it quite clear in my old head that I am not popular

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

Whitman chose not to include the poem in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

My dear Whitman, I have your kind favor of the 11th with the enclosed poem—or series of poems, rather

My dear Comrade, Will you permit me to add by anticipation my warm congratulations to those of your many

Now, my dear friend, you will doubtless hear many more agreeable things than the foregoing said about

years since I had the pleasure of meeting you at your home in Camden, and I can scarcely express now my

My good friend and fellow-laborer on the Journal, James Chisholm —An American citizen born and reared

Whatever remains for us in "The great labor-house vast of being" let it be a comfort to you, my dear

I feel, however, unable to withhold my tribute–feeble as it is and I can only pray you to forgive my

Let me add to the many my respectful and sincere greetings.

Broadway" you sent me, and was so well pleased with it that I expect to order the following numbers until my

greeting: the enclosed S on have already "said give lectures or a little charity, ve out of myself." in my

This sense forbids my taking up the pen carelessly to intrude upon your attention. I. Mr. H.H.

I came to grasp it; my humility to God, my esteem to you.

to my work as a composer.

Intention must befriend me or my chance must fall.

In the first, I send you a copy of this work, I have perforce of my religious perception, vested the

It is now some two years ago since your poems were first brought under my notice (by my friend Mr A.

Ladell Balls) and their effect upon my life from that time has been most marked.

Jany 9. 1891 My dear Walt Wish you a Happy New Year, and take it in your new tomes and the "Old Gray

By the way in my file of the Sat.

I am living permanently here (that is to say in the old Phalanx near Redbank) and my brother is with

18 City Hall Octo. 3d '67 My dear Walt, I have this moment clipped the enclosed paragraphs about Garibaldi

He is not a great captain; as a tactician he is no better than JEANNE D'ARC, but like her he has a familiar

ALEXANDER DUMAS to write my memoirs from.

Saturday Press, New York, Mch March 27 18 60 My dear Walt: I am so busy that I hardly have time to breathe

This must explain my not answering yr your letter promptly.

I could if necessary give my note at three mos for the amount and it is a good note since we have never

to whom I am an entire stranger will do anything of the kind: but in suggesting it, I have done only my

Monday May 14, '60 My dear Walt : I spent much time yesterday reading your poems, and am more charmed

I want to do great things for you with the book, and as soon as I get over my immediate troubles will

My dear Walt, The books are duly delivered.

Meanwhile I am up to my eyes—and over my eyes even to blindness—in the slough of a fearful road to that

plainer English I am fighting like a thousand Humans to establish the Saturday Press, and have for my

My brother George will deliver this. He is of the right stamp. In haste Henry Clapp.

English edition of your works—verbatim, without any retrenchments; and I have gone so far as to offer my

To Walt Whitman, My dear Master, I plead no other excuse in writing to you but my great wish to thank

For you have proved to me, lovingly, as few others have done, that a poet—(my own far-off but cherished

Hoping my letter may not weary you or the reading of it try your eyes Believe me Your very grateful admirer

untitled section of the 1855 edition. of Leaves of Grass which, in the 1867 edition, became "Now List to My

Dear Sir, I have sent you by this mail a little book of verses as a slight token of my Esteem.

under the pines beside the little Ulster Co. lake— I know you love children and I wish I could show you my

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

I have loved you for years with my whole heart and soul.

I am too impetuous; I feel my subject too deeply.

And yet I am a writer and make my living by my pen.

hand your beautiful grey hair, and possibly feel your arm about my waist.

It is nothing to me who sees them; I am proud of my feeling for you.

I felt as though it was my duty to go to him for he is one of the dearest brothers ever was given to

My eyes fill with tears when I think of it.

He is truly the chief comfort of my life.

I live very quietly in my little cottage, rent the lower floor and though I feel cramped a good deal

There is a matter that has come to my notice lately that I am very anxious to get at the truth about,

The letter he published written by you to my mother about the hospitals and sacred almost to me came

sixty-five poems that had originally appeared in November Boughs (1888); while the second, "Good-Bye my

Take my hand Walt Whitman" "Lift me close to your face Till I whisper " "What you are holding is in reality

"Here take from my lips this kiss" "I give it especially to you .

Cooly, composedly, whilst the hot lava inwardly boiling, rages through my breast.

You are my child—Lord & Ideal.

I wish they could see my Soul. Would they deem it lovely. I do not bother much about the exterior.

188uva.00565xxx.00259Hear my fifeBetween 1850 and 1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf8 x 15 cm; Whitman probably

first several lines of Pictures (not including this line) were eventually revised and published as My

(uva.00260) appeared, in revised form, in the poem eventually titled The Sleepers.; uva.00260 Hear my

Hear my fife!—I am a recruiter Who Come, who will join my troop?

first several lines of "Pictures" (not including this line) were eventually revised and published as "My

Hear my fife

first several lines of "Pictures" (not including this line) were eventually revised and published as "My

of the poem (not including this line) were revised and published in The American in October 1880 as "My

Candidly let me tell you, my friends stay at home. There is no antidote to your dread disease here.

'Courage, my boy!' wrote Lord Chatham to his son, 'only the Encyclopædia to learn!'

passage used in a note (entitled "Another Note") to the poem An Ended Day published in 1891 in Good-Bye My

to one of his mystical treatises (De Cœlo et Inferno) he says:— "I was dining very late one day at my

London (this was in seventeen hundred and forty-three)—and was eating heartily.— When I was finishing my

That night the eyes of my inner man were opened, and enabled to look into heaven, the world of spirits

, and hell; and there I saw many persons of my acquaintance, some dead long before, and others recently

Instantly there was presented before my eyes a woman exactly resembling the women in that earth.— She

I am sending you a copy of my New Spirit which contains an essay that may interest you.

leafhandwritten; This manuscript bears some similarity in subject to the poem that became Who Learns My

the verso (not in Whitman's hand) makes reference to the title of this poem, as well as to Good-Bye My

The poem was retitled To the Pending Year for its inclusion in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) Have I no word

Hattie Cooper is alluding to Whitman's poem "A Christmas Greeting," which had been published in Good-Bye My

Nov 15 188 0 Walt Whitman Esq Dear Sir: Will you please send to my address by Express the two volumes

Feb. 6, 1861 My dear Sir, Please find bill enclosed of 20.24 .

Walt Whitman: I came across your, and now my, Leaves of Grass when I was eighteen, that is a year ago

I took it to my mother and "wheedled" her as she says, and got her to give the "leaves" to me.

At the page where you breathed on and pressed your hand, I also pressed my hand and so we have had a

condition of London and I am working hard to get out of it and back to America, where I shall bury my

And you have done my brothers & sisters, the race, good.

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to