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and bring the Irving money along with him—not that I am in any way troubled about the money, but for my

W. received what he calls "one of my funny notes" a while ago.

W. was not at home on my first arrival. Had gone out, they told me, full two hours before.

I said, "They have more grit than stuff"—and both at once took in my idea.

But had received slips, reprint of my third Post piece, from Johnston.

It was a holy peace—a quiet passing understanding—my memory meanwhile drowsily playing with all the events

My early round not so early as through the week. Ed Stafford in parlor chatting with Warrie.

Several times in my stay of half an hour he called Warrie by ringing the bell.

then, "Walt, it's necessary for you to say that in so many words: you must say, I declare this to be my

last will and testament," and then with a very strong, clear voice he said, "I declare this to be my

He commended my statement to Baker that W. took no part in the details.

and as you say I am most generally alluded to as 'Walt Whitman,' probably from the long insistence of my

Bring him over, of course only for my usual few minutes—but I will be glad to see him."

He spoke of Parnell, but I in fact take so little interest it all went by my ear.

Whether in my first moody, demoniac criticality I do them injustice, that remains to be seen.

He laughed at my excuses.

W. in his room writing what I found to be some more notes for my use in magazine article.He returned

The book startles me into my old fear that someday perhaps the whole country will groan to Emersonism

—as it had—though now, as he said, "there is a sweet breeze—I feel it on my head as I sit here"—gently

take it so near a neighbor has sure access to him), you would kindly inquire whether or no he received my

s essays, and it is my opinion that we should rattle it up. If W.'

I send you a suggestion for a title-leaf, and my idea would be to number the essays and not name them

And to my affirmative (entered in with explanations, etc.), "Well, try for it—see somebody at once about

Asked me if I had given my father Black and White? "I thought it a strong array of pictures.

Says, "I continue to read my own book with the greatest admiration"—the press-work and paper so good

Told W. of it now, W. saying, "He was one of my earliest friends—a true one, too—a sweet attractive fellow—gemmie—I

escaped, though I never like to be baffled in a question of that kind—like to have paraphernalia—words—at my

pain (bad cold "profusely illustrated" with facial neuralgia) yesterday morning and am again over at my

Rukh–mabai, my Indian friend was with us—her first visit to Oxford, and she was tremendously interested

This is a most unsatisfactory letter—but I feel as if the fog had got into my head.

But in my little intellectual life "Leaves of Grass" had been so much to me that I could not meet and

The circumstance passed from my mind but a few days since one of the gentlemen referred to the occurrence

My friend Fred Wild thinks a lot of him & has kept up a steady correspondence with him for the last 17

—And as I have heard so much of him for so many years, it was like meeting an old friend of my own.

June 1891 My dear Walt Whitman, Your letter of May 28 th received yesterday morning.

And cordial thanks to you not only for the letter, which I deeply prize, but for its address to my old

Wallace is quoting from Section 47 of Whitman's "Song of Myself," in which the poet writes, "My words

I should like for Jeff (some time when he is over in New York) to stop at the place where I had my pictures

I believe I have written all that I can think at present so good bye Mamy,  give my love to Mattie, Jeff

I know I am glad that your selections were put into my hands first, so that I was lifted up by them to

As he told you, there is a chance—not as yet more than a chance—that I may make my way over the Atlantic

My Dear Walt.

All of us well—especially my two little boys, who enjoy the country life very much.

You must pardon my type writer & my gossiping letter, but I wanted you to know tha that I & all of us

Some sofas and a magnificent Gothic bookcase, attracted my attention; and a splendid display, too, of

The balloon ascension, mentioned in my last, came off according to promise, at Niblo's, yesterday afternoon

," Whitman writes in "Song of Myself"; "Your facts are useful, and yet they are not my dwelling, / I

but enter by them to an area of my dwelling" (section 23).BibliographyLindfors, Bernth.

I wrote in my last letter that I had met her son Willy in the street, Monday Jan. 7, & he told me she

Well good bye, dear mother—& give my love to George, & Jeff, & Matty, & all. Walt.

got lost I am more on the alert and mention them)— The poor Frenchman d'Almeida I told you about in my

Mother, my heart bleeds at all sorts of such damnable things of one kind or another I meet with every

I could not shut my eyes to their wild, rough beauty nor close my soul to the truths they expressed.

I write simply to express my unqualified disgust with the portions I have read.

O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul!

Softly I lay my right hand upon you—you just feel it; I do not argue—I bend my head close, and half-

Jennie Gilder was "more disposed our way, but she is making money—at least that is my supposition (there

no money in the Critic) and has more or less resigned her place on the Critic: that, at any rate, is my

And so would say at my mention of feudalism—'does it do feudalism any good to have it presented in such

Gave me a copy of the Lear for Aggie, who projected having a big charcoal copy made by my father.

My advice would be in the words of Punch in its picture—the little word of four letters, printed as big

this earth, head-up, sorto"'—and he laughingly spelled "sorto" saying—"It is a word I often use—one of my

free and winged words—words that have thundered and ennobled the hearts and lives of millions—that my

As she fixed the bed, she mentioned my name, "Mr. Traubel is here."

Also Bucke—24th—calling my attention to "Death's Valley," not knowing I know too that it was not unchangedly

This with reference to my promise yesterday (my suggestion, too) to see Wilson Eyre—have him go to Camden

I informed W. of my idea to buy the 328 house, to preserve and guard.

John's Wood, N.W., London24 Sept. 1890Dear Walt Whitman,Accept my thanks for your "rejoinder" and the

Buxton FormanThis is the first day of my vacation.I referred to yesterday's paragraph in Post as "skimpy

Spoke of reading my piece, also editorial note on "The Kreutzer Sonata" in which he was mentioned.At

Thereupon exhibited him my Johnston letter of 8th. W. said, "Good! the leaves are there!"

"The fellow always warms my heart. Will he come?

Indeed, there was our difference, besides my admiration—though no serious difference either.

This doctor gave my eyes an extended, elaborate examination.

This called out by my quote from Burroughs, that W.'

Though for my taste I should have thought it good enough purple.

Ginnaty was not to be my neighbor.

My love to your mother, & very much to you, always, dear Walt, from Your friend Nelly O'Connor.

Then lift your white hands, and my arms From harms And troubles the baby will keep.

Ellen O'Connor related in a letter on November 24, 1863, that the Count had said to her recently: "My

—of the poet that is to me more attractive than his writings, and my earliest recollections of poetry

I never saw my grey haired friend in such royal spirits.

short collar, open and fine beard, frosted poll, but not with age, till I could compare him only to my

Testament Christ; he sees himself "[w]alking the old hills of Judæa with the beautiful gentle God by my

shown, Whitman's language echoes that of biblical writing: creeds and petitions ("I believe in you my

to the Bible can best be summed up in his own expectation of the disciple he seeks: "He most honors my

This leads in particular to cosmic visions in which dimensions have no value: "My ties and ballasts leave

me, my elbows rest in sea-gaps, / I skirt sierras, my palms cover continents . . ."

he screams to a gaping universe: "I, Walt Whitman, an American, one of the roughs, a Cosmos; I shout my

voice high and clear over the waves; I send my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

From those beginning notes of sickness and love, there in the mist, From the thousand responses in my

O what is my destination? O I fear it is henceforth chaos!"

knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my

own And I know that the Spirit of God is the brother of my own And that all the men ever born are also

my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers And that a kelson of the creation is love." . . . .

Give me a day or two more: I will do my best to be good.

very sick—and sore: tell them I feel as if the whole ground had been swept from under my feet—as if I

of a socialist than I thought I was: maybe not technically, politically, so, but intrinsically, in my

When I go to my tailor I lay down a law to him: that among the prime requisites of a suit of clothes

She is a friend of my Quaker friend, Mary Costelloe: it was no doubt through Mary that we came together

W. said: "My attention was first called to him by William O'Connor, who may have met him personally—I

My taste has been modelled on another theory—in the school of Scott, of Cooper, of some others of the

I remember the Tales of my Landlord, Ivanhoe, The Fortunes of Nigel— yes, and Kenilworth—its great pageantry—then

Congress this time.The money I'm sending in this letter (about 15 dollars) is chiefly for "Good-Bye, My

Lastly, my youngest son, Maurice Buxton Forman, is likely to go out into the world soon—most probably

It ought to have been clearly understood by my letter and by Doctor's itself that there was to be no

Long had curiously said, "One of my doubts of Shakespeare is in the fact that no two men seem to agree

"I have started here a list of a few of the books I have here about me—say a dozen or 20 of them—my entourage

All my talk was low key—all of it: for instance, take that passage he gives about Blaine.

I said only that Blaine's recent actions had placed him in better light than ever before in my mind—or

I confess when he told me this many of my first impressions were sent flying or at least thrown into

Kissed him—entered at once into recital of my trip.

Probably reference to my piece.Asked me if I had a set of Lippincott's proofs to "swop-off for the set

After leaving W. now found the whole order home, and on my way to Philadelphia took 20 to him.

memorandum written on a slip of colored paper: "Get me some paper like this—I prefer it to white to write my

How perfect is my soul! How perfect the earth, and the minutest thing upon it!

O my soul! if I realize you I have satisfaction, Animals and vegetables!

I cannot define my satisfaction . . yet it is so, I cannot define my life . . yet it is so.

How perfect is my Soul! How perfect the earth, and the minutest thing upon it!

My Soul! if I realize you, I have satisfaction, Animals and vegetables!

I cannot define my satisfaction, yet it is so, I cannot define my life, yet it is so.

How perfect is my soul! How perfect the earth, and the minutest thing upon it!

My soul! if I realize you, I have satisfaction, Animals and vegetables!

I cannot define my satisfaction, yet it is so, I cannot define my life, yet it is so.

How perfect is my Soul! How perfect the earth, and the minutest thing upon it!

My Soul! if I realize you, I have satisfaction, Animals and vegetables!

I cannot define my satisfaction, yet it is so, I cannot define my life, yet it is so. 11 It comes to