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see Frank Carpenter tell him I am willing to sit for the picture, wh' is all I can do—& I send him my

Asylum for the Insane, London, Jan January 19 th 18 80 My dear Walt I am going to ask a great favor of

Jan January 24 '77 My dear Damon Kilgore | & Mrs Kilgore I will be at the Commemorative meeting.

in the London Journal and the promise of a bit of your writing for me to frame with the picture of my

Am sitting here in the big chair in my den as usual. Walt Whitman to Daniel Longaker, 10 May [1891]

the one you propose—to stereotype, advertise and push it—implies an expenditure that may be beyond my

from you quite a while ago (from Johnstown, Pa: Pennsylvania ) you mention some German translations of my

Channing forthwith—& fulfil my promised visit to them also, before I return here—which will be about

ltter letter for me when I first came to the hospital I am glad to from eny one anyone write again my

It is in the Critic of Sept. 27 —Dry and warm and often oppressive weather here—a long spell—My lameness

I remember you & y'r call & the ladies very well & send my best wishes & respects to all—I w'd be glad

w'd be best—the one in y'r little L of G is bad—I go on to New York (if I can get there) to deliver my

My Days I sing, and the Lands—with interstice I knew of hapless War.

ONCE I pass'd through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architec-

perfumes, nor the high, rain- emitting rain-emitting clouds, are borne through the open air, Any more than my

I do not know what they cost, but my impression is, that it was somewhere in the neighborhood of $800

I am still anchored here in my bed—I am sitting up now on the side—Mrs.

My dear Linton, Your kind letter came duly to hand.

put the entire essay together from segments of four previously published essays—"A Backward Glance on My

Own Road," "How 'Leaves of Grass' Was Made," "How I Made a Book," and "My Book and I"—"A Backward Glance

the essay, his approach: "I round and finish little, if anything; and could not, consistently with my

He admits: "Out-of-doors is my savior this winter."

And turning the pages of the Weekly—"This is my despair—all this sumptuousness, elegance.

Then—on my asking what he had clipped from the Tribune extract (I noticed it was cut): "There were two

And again, "That reminds me: what do you think of my new portrait?"

"Carey sent me this—sent me a number for my name.

date it is sent.I had brought in "Where Meadows Meet the Sea" and the Bucke volume he had marked for my

My dear friend:Your letters and telegram received. Mr.

Baker will go over on Wednesday, and bring you my idea as to date and subject, etc.I care nothing about

They were my special favorites. I have every cause to remember Mrs.

I know he will do it magnificently—that it will all be fine, strong—but my curiosity is for this: what

And to my affirmative he responded, "I have wished to know: it is always a curious point to me.

My own preference is for the 'Walt Whitman' in full." When he met the "M.

me pick it up inquisitively, he remarked: "It was a young fellow I met up there at the time I paid my

It confirms my own observation. And there is Kossuth, too—living still—nearly 90!

But as you say—using my old story—I suppose the whole secret is that there is no secret—that he is natural—that

account of a wondrous and important discovery, a treatise upon which would fill up the principal part of my

Some years ago, when my judgement was in the bud, I thought riches were very desirable things.

But I have altered my mind. Light has flowed in upon me. I am not quite so green as I was.

Louis— Apl 24th 1873 My dear Mother— Your letter was handed me just as I was leaving the city to go to

My health, and that of the Children continues first-rate  we get along nicely at Mrs Bulkley['s] and

I am ashamed that I have not been more thoughtful in this respect—but what with Mat's sickness and my

From my own personal observations I think that the newspapers would give one the most perverted kind

My idea is this, to make a certain portion of the city, say certain wards that make a district, not too

My theory is that before the people found out the thing drafting would be over, and like the fellow that

Dear Walt: I have been so ill, and so burdened with the office charge, being scarcely able to hold my

of Bacon's Promus —a strong anti- Shakespere Shakespeare document—which hurt the book immensely, and my

Walt Whitman (Don't forget to return my Times article sometime.) William D.

New York 7th June 1879 My recollection of what Miss — told me on the Friday evening, just one week after

well, & recollect asking Miss — at what point in it the tragedy occurred, but her answer has escaped my

part of the stories told I knew from competent & trustworthy sources & also, in a small measure, from my

"My poor Rebecca, my dear sister, I am going to see thee! I am indeed happy!"

"'Behold, Lord. the agony of Thy handmaid: pity her sufferings; shorten her pains, my God, and let those

My dear Walt: I am enraged and ashamed with myself to have never sent you a word responsive to your letters

It was such rain as we have often seen here from my windows, only this time I saw it all alone.

The rascally Congress taxes me in September fifty dollars in a lump, besides my usual income tax, so

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

I am now at work in the "Crescent" office at five dollars per week, and my work is done by three o'clock

To My Dear Mother I do want to hear from you very, very much, do write to Walter or me and tell us how

Dear Sister you must also write to me (but please pay the postage)  Among the others I must not forget my

I gave W. the cards sent from my sister: "Herbert Spencer Harned—Dec. 2d." "Ah!

It seems to me just the day—these days of days: I have never known in all my experience such a series

W. said: "I only ask you to take care of that thing for me—to supply for my shortcomings."

Then to my look of inquiry: "I don't mean anything negative by that: it 'sit's mainly the slow maturers

Walt Whitman.Your card of the 24th came two days ago, not a little to my relief.

implied: I honor them: I know they are probably working in their own way to produce what I working in my

My general position is plain: the people: all the people: not forgetting the bad with the good: they

Ain't that my program?"

"He complains of the irregularity of my letters.

I am always statistically careful about the dates of my letters.

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

to make any new case for the consideration of the Court, I do not see, as at present advised, that my

received, is one clearly within the range of the instructions given to him, and the District Attorney; and my

opinion, and should think that I ought to give it, I shall endeavor to do it at as early a date as my

My dear Sir: The case involving the naturalization question was reached to-day in the Supreme Court,

I desire, therefore, that you will prepare for my signature the proper papers withdrawing the appeal.

building of the "Grande Admiral," from the year 1853 to 1856, I regret to inform you that it is out of my

Sir: On account of my absence from Washington, yours of the 27th of December has not received an earlier

Sir: Your letter without date received in February last, requesting my opinion upon the right of Governor

My understanding of the matter is, that the case is now before the Supreme Court, on appeal from California

Brown in my letter of August 21st, as now addressed to yourself. Very respectfully, A. T.

behalf of the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at Ionia, Mich. more than the sum indicated in my

Dear Sir: On my return to Washington I find your letter of the 18th ultimo. I do not see how Mr.

"It is a persistent cold: and it leaves me very weak: I am hardly able to blow my nose."

am that foolish half grown angry boy, fallen asleep, The tears of foolish passion yet undried upon my

Cassius Clay Henry Shaw of St Louis Y et m M y 71st year has arrived and this arrives: the fifteen is my