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short & if you can register the parcel so as to render safer its receipt by me, pray do so & increase my
farm–house—Dr Bucke is still here (he puts up at "the Aldine" Cape May city but is just now in Washington)—My
Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to
I am a native Texan, but my father belonged to the Georgia branch of the Whitman family.
get out of the house—but with Spring & good weather shall no doubt be all right again—I truly hope, my
Mary, Greenport —nothing new—it seems that George was down there, (probably a few hours) after all—my
Louis, this mn'g morning —She is well & seems to be getting along—is ab't about 5 now, & I have eaten my
From my window (4 pm.)
New York, March 14, 188 3 My Dear Mr Whitman Enclosed please find CK check for $12.
It is a most valuable item for my collection and will be valued beyond most old newspapers.
I am not sure you will remember me, or my occasional salute to you, in Washington.
My dear Whitman, I received this morning from an old friend (Mr.
431 Stevens Street Camden Sunday afternoon My Dear Herbert Though I am pretty well physically it is very
My Dear Walt Whitman, I am commissioned to ask if you can supply The Herald exclusively with a poem in
depot—it would have done me good, even to have a minute, & a good hold of you once more—Nothing new in my
Philadelphia —( Pub'r Publisher of my books) I will send you one soon as it is out—I am well, for me—have
My essay has not much translation in it, but I think of appending a complete transl. translation of some
I feel the confidence of me of those friends that you will find no presumption in my writing thus, &
& nights with me—neuralgic sick head ache in addition to other ails—Keep up & was out yesterday to my
The last edition of my poems complete I publish & sell myself.
good flesh, appetite & trim generally—Only return'd last night from a long jaunt & absence down at my
gift—for your letter with the £45 which has just reached me— We have fine weather here, & I am enjoying it—My
Camden— Feb: 16—Forenoon Had my breakfast abt 9¼—mutton-broth, (some small bits of well stew'd meat)
Camden 6 P M June 24 91 Pleasant weather—partial depression to-day—just finish'd my supper—some stew'd
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.
They were talking of Edwin Arnold on my entrance. Ingersoll hearing me sprang up with warm hand.
W. shook his head, "No, Colonel, no—my work is all done."
Brown, my daughter, and by Miss Maud, my other daughter, to say to you, that you must not leave us yet—that
He took my hand with a good sound grasp. And he is better, anyway, than I expected to find him."
And on the way out to the carriage, "Don't forget me to the wife, Traubel: give her my love.
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