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Search : of captain, my captain!

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William Payne to Walt Whitman, 16 July 1890

  • Date: July 16, 1890
  • Creator(s): William Payne
Text:

short & if you can register the parcel so as to render safer its receipt by me, pray do so & increase my

Walt Whitman to George and Susan Stafford, 28 May 1890

  • Date: May 28, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

farm–house—Dr Bucke is still here (he puts up at "the Aldine" Cape May city but is just now in Washington)—My

Annotations Text:

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

Walter B. Whitman to Walt Whitman, 3 August 1889

  • Date: August 3, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walter B. Whitman
Text:

I am a native Texan, but my father belonged to the Georgia branch of the Whitman family.

Walt Whitman to Louise Chandler Moulton, 2 February 1881

  • Date: February 2, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

get out of the house—but with Spring & good weather shall no doubt be all right again—I truly hope, my

Walt Whitman to Hannah Whitman Heyde, 1 November 1891

  • Date: November 1, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Mary, Greenport —nothing new—it seems that George was down there, (probably a few hours) after all—my

Walt Whitman to Hannah Whitman Heyde, 11 March 1891

  • Date: March 11, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Louis, this mn'g morning —She is well & seems to be getting along—is ab't about 5 now, & I have eaten my

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 12 March 1892

  • Date: March 12, 1892
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

From my window (4 pm.)

D. L. Proudfit to Walt Whitman, 14 March 1883

  • Date: March 14, 1883
  • Creator(s): D. L. Proudfit
Text:

New York, March 14, 188 3 My Dear Mr Whitman Enclosed please find CK check for $12.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 18 November 1890

  • Date: November 18, 1890
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

It is a most valuable item for my collection and will be valued beyond most old newspapers.

Walt Whitman to Ulysses S. Grant, 27 February 1874

  • Date: February 27, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I am not sure you will remember me, or my occasional salute to you, in Washington.

Alexander Gardner to Walt Whitman, 26 November 1866

  • Date: November 26, 1866
  • Creator(s): Alexander Gardner | Horace Traubel
Text:

My dear Whitman, I received this morning from an old friend (Mr.

Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, [1877]

  • Date: early 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

431 Stevens Street Camden Sunday afternoon My Dear Herbert Though I am pretty well physically it is very

George Horton to Walt Whitman, 5 August 1891

  • Date: August 5, 1891
  • Creator(s): George Horton
Text:

My Dear Walt Whitman, I am commissioned to ask if you can supply The Herald exclusively with a poem in

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 20 December [1876?]

  • Date: December 20, [1876]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

depot—it would have done me good, even to have a minute, & a good hold of you once more—Nothing new in my

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 13 April [1883]

  • Date: April 13, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Philadelphia —( Pub'r Publisher of my books) I will send you one soon as it is out—I am well, for me—have

Thomas W. H. Rolleston to Walt Whitman, 30 September [1883]

  • Date: September 30, 1883
  • Creator(s): Thomas W. H. Rolleston
Text:

My essay has not much translation in it, but I think of appending a complete transl. translation of some

Emma Riley to Walt Whitman, 23 November [1883]

  • Date: November 23, 1883
  • Creator(s): Emma Riley
Text:

I feel the confidence of me of those friends that you will find no presumption in my writing thus, &

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 18 July 1891

  • Date: July 18, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

& nights with me—neuralgic sick head ache in addition to other ails—Keep up & was out yesterday to my

Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Correspondent, 17 October 1871

  • Date: October 17, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The last edition of my poems complete I publish & sell myself.

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 24 February 1878

  • Date: February 24, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

good flesh, appetite & trim generally—Only return'd last night from a long jaunt & absence down at my

Walt Whitman to Edward Carpenter, 29 May 1886

  • Date: May 29, 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

gift—for your letter with the £45 which has just reached me— We have fine weather here, & I am enjoying it—My

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 16–17 February [1889]

  • Date: February 16–17, [1889]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Camden— Feb: 16—Forenoon Had my breakfast abt 9¼—mutton-broth, (some small bits of well stew'd meat)

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 24 June 1891

  • Date: June 24, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Camden 6 P M June 24 91 Pleasant weather—partial depression to-day—just finish'd my supper—some stew'd

Walt Whitman to John Russell Young, 24 October 1891

  • Date: October 24, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 19 January 1880

  • Date: January 19, 1880
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Mr. and Mrs. Damon Y. Kilgore, 24 January 1877

  • Date: January 24, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Charles Warren Stoddard to Walt Whitman, 7 July 1880

  • Date: July 7, 1880
  • Creator(s): Charles Warren Stoddard
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Daniel Longaker, 10 May [1891]

  • Date: May 10, [1891]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

James Redpath to Walt Whitman, 28 October 1863

  • Date: October 28, 1863
  • Creator(s): James Redpath | Horace Traubel
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Karl Knortz, 11 September 1883

  • Date: September 11, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 14 October 1868

  • Date: October 14, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Manville Wintersteen to Walt Whitman, 1 March 1875

  • Date: March 1, 1875
  • Creator(s): Manvill Wintersteen | Manville Wintersteen
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 29 September 1884

  • Date: September 29, 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Robert Adams, 27 July 1890

  • Date: July 27, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Ernest Rhys, 11 April 1887

  • Date: April 11, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Inscription

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Not Heat Flames Up and Consumes

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Horace Wentworth to Walt Whitman, 16 November 1866

  • Date: November 16, 1866
  • Creator(s): Horace Wentworth
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, [4 February 1873]

  • Date: February 4, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to William J. Linton, 22 March [1872]

  • Date: March 22, 1872
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Thursday, January 21, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

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.

Henry Stanbery to Ellen A. Brodnax, 13 December 1867

  • Date: December 13, 1867
  • Creator(s): Henry Stanbery | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to James M. Carlisle, John A. Wills, and M. Carpenter, 28 April 1869

  • Date: April 28, 1869
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hamilton Fish, 16 July 1869

  • Date: July 16, 1869
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to A. R. Meek, 26 March 1870

  • Date: March 26, 1870
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Henry Stanbery, 12 April 1870

  • Date: April 12, 1870
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Amos T. Akerman to Thomas H. Talbot, 11 August 1871

  • Date: August 11, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Amos T. Akerman to J. C. B. Davis, 9 August 1871

  • Date: August 9, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Amos T. Akerman to Samuel Hepburn, Jr., 13 January 1871

  • Date: January 13, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

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