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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
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.
Indeed, had there been a little hurrahing, we might (my companion and I,) have fancied ourselves some
Lighting his pipe very deliberately, he proceeded to catechise me as to my name, birth-place, and lineage—where
I was from last, where I was staying, what my occupation was, and so on.
He volunteered the information that he was a Universalist in his religious belief, and asked my opinion
now pretty far advanced, Aunt Rebby wended on her way towards the east; and the old man, with I and my
Features of my equals, would you trick me with your creas'd and cadaverous march?
I saw the face of the most smear'd and slobbering idiot they had at the asylum; And I knew for my consolation
what they knew not; I knew of the agents that emptied and broke my brother, The same wait to clear the
pickets, Come here, she blushingly cries—Come nigh to me, lim-ber-hipp'dlimber-hipp'd man, Stand at my
upon you, Fill me with albescent honey, bend down to me, Rub to me with your chafing beard, rub to my
In the afterlife, the soul's immaterial body, "transcending my senses and flesh . . . finally loves,
the third (1860) edition, "Starting from Paumanok," announced Whitman's intention to "make poems of my
body and of mortality . . . of my soul and of immortality" (section 6).
In "Scented Herbage of My Breast" and "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" the poet searches for words
with minor masterpieces of affecting readiness for death: "After the Supper and Talk" and "Good-Bye my
There was no hurry in his manner; having found me a seat, and then only leaving hold of my hand, he sad
had thought before (and I do not know that I had) that Whitman was eccentric, unbalanced, violent, my
Putting on his grey slouch hat he sallied forth with evident pleasure, and taking my arm as a support
My original idea was that if I could bring men together by putting before them the heart of man, with
As to my own opinion, why", said Holmes, "I have already given you that.
.; 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.
have—shall send you some more as I shall have some more in a day or two—(S[arrazin] takes 'em all down in my