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I mean give him my regards. & to Dr. B. whose last I shall answer soon W. S. K.
James Gray, Bookbinder 16 Spruce st. 4th floor, is the custodian of the sheets of my Leaves of Grass,
My dear Mr. McGuire, The money you gave me for Mr.
In reply to your note of some days since, in reference to acting as my agent, for sale of "Leaves of
My dear Sir;— Will you kindly favor me with your autograph, to go in company with others famous in word
My continued love & sympathy to you. God bless you & yours.
am well as usual—always glad to hear from you—hope we shall be together again one of these days—give my
Alvord's receipt for my plates, in his vault. Walt Whitman to Peter Eckler, 3 May 1865
The contributions of Willie Durkee and my little girl are rather small but it takes all their spare funds
the other was lost in the mail | JR # 3 447-1928 328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey Dec: 15 '85—noon My
I find on carefully reading the "Quarterly," that I should greatly qualify my first impression of its
My dear Mr.
so-so—Nothing very different—get along fairly, considering—have buckwheat cakes for b'kfast breakfast —relish my
bro't brought me a nice basket of rasp raspberries & blackberries—I had some & a little oatmeal for my
quite a feat—sold a big book —rice pudding in old yellow earthen dish (& brot brought up in same) for my
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America Dec: 8 '81 First, thanks, heartfelt thanks, my friend
My Dear Sir Your proof came to too late for us to make the corrections & I return it so that you can
Dear Sir: I received your letter of the 11 inst. instant to-day and take pleasure to enclose herewith my
London Saturday 23 Sept. 1876 Dear Walt Whitman I have received your volume and thank you heartily My
My dear Mr.
Coan's letter books sent $10 due from Century Club THE CENTURY 109 EAST 15TH STREET November 22 d 1880 My
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America Dec 10 '78 My dear Josiah Child Yours of Nov: 23d duly
April 23d /76 140 East 38th st New York My dear Mr Whitman: Your note was received and I am only waiting
As a further clue to my identity, I may tell you that I am editor of this paper and English correspondent
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey April 9 '81 My Dear Miss Gilder Thanks for the slips of No: Number
My dear Walt Miss Annie T.
nap of say four hours f'm 12 to 4 nearly every night)—an egg (fried very rare) with Graham br'd for my
Camden noon Jan: 7 '90 Close to my den the last two or three days—pretty dull every thing—alone nearly
Camden New Jersey America March 15 1887 My dear Ernest Rhys Here is for your edition, a special concluding
It is a very warm Sunday afternoon—as I write up in my third story south room— W W Walt Whitman to Anne
)— I leave mainly the carrying it out to your aformentioned taste & judgment—you can confer &c with my
Matters are ab't as usual—had my 2d meal for the day at 4, a bit of broiled chicken, some bread & prunes
Camden noon Nov: 28 '90 Gloomy & depressed enough these two or three days—My brother Jeff died Tuesday
delighted to have been the means of giving to future generations a portrait of you that is certainly one of my
news here we had a good dinner here to day father yo must excuse me for not writing a long letter for my
J., Fey February 7 18 79 My Dear Walt Friday has come & gone —& no report as the dinner with the author
—in good spirits, & excellent well, and have had a jolly good visit both to you & yours & over here—My
I believe I mentioned in my note at the time that it had also been sent to the London Times and Chicago
about ten minutes ago cant Explain explain the Pleasure pleasure experience from your letters Farewell my
impressions (proofs) & send me—direct to me, care of J H Johnston Jeweler, 150 Bowery —that will be my
Understand that, like the new year's Bible, the Photo is a gift, with my best love, to you & William—to
Camden Dec: December 21 '82 My dear friends Yes I will give you the autograph name & perhaps a sentiment
, with check for Twenty Dollars, ($20) (herewith returned) was duly rec'd—Thank you most fervently, my
over waves, towards the house of maternity, the land of migrations, look afar, Look off the shores of my
glance upward out of this page, studying you, dear friend, whoever you are;) How solemn the thought of my
selected—all very good & generous I say—and deserved—O'Connor is also in the book— Nothing very new in my
Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America Nov. 10 '81 I send you same mail with this the circular of my
with the money—& yesterday I sent you by Adams' express, paid, to same address as this letter a set of my
Sept 14 My dear Linton, I rec'd a letter to–day from Moncure Conway (just arr'd arrived here from England
In this affair of the clerkship, my friend Mr. Stedman has already printed his disclaimer.
Three months later, in a pamphlet, I did my best to secure for the infamy of Mr.
But it is not my fault if the last fortnight's journals reaching Mr.
My regard for the work antedates by several years my acquaintance with the author, and no one can justly
It was morning in the world with me when I first read those mighty pages, and felt to my imnest soul