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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

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

In the afterlife, the soul's immaterial body, "transcending my senses and flesh . . . finally loves,

the third (1860) edition, "Starting from Paumanok," announced Whitman's intention to "make poems of my

body and of mortality . . . of my soul and of immortality" (section 6).

In "Scented Herbage of My Breast" and "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" the poet searches for words

with minor masterpieces of affecting readiness for death: "After the Supper and Talk" and "Good-Bye my

Indeed, had there been a little hurrahing, we might (my companion and I,) have fancied ourselves some

Lighting his pipe very deliberately, he proceeded to catechise me as to my name, birth-place, and lineage—where

I was from last, where I was staying, what my occupation was, and so on.

He volunteered the information that he was a Universalist in his religious belief, and asked my opinion

now pretty far advanced, Aunt Rebby wended on her way towards the east; and the old man, with I and my

Features of my equals, would you trick me with your creas'd and cadaverous march?

I saw the face of the most smear'd and slobbering idiot they had at the asylum; And I knew for my consolation

what they knew not; I knew of the agents that emptied and broke my brother, The same wait to clear the

pickets, Come here, she blushingly cries—Come nigh to me, lim-ber-hipp'dlimber-hipp'd man, Stand at my

upon you, Fill me with albescent honey, bend down to me, Rub to me with your chafing beard, rub to my

Rider, and that in my opinion, no public object now exists which could be promoted by the proposed attempt

Schley having my entire confidence, as well as your own, I concur in your suggestion that they be employed

If you approve a reversal of the judgment, it will be my pleasure to carry that desire into effect.

Attorney for Georgia: "I deem it my duty to report that it is currently rumored that the U. S.

I deem it my duty to report that it is currently rumored that the U. S.

result, in a great degree, of inquiries orally made by me of persons from the Territory who came to my

In accordance with what was orally said by you to my Assistant, Mr.

charge of this Department out of which such a reward could be paid—and therefore it will not be in my

Sir: In answer to your letter of the 6th instant, requesting my views as to the expediency of complying

According to my information the compromise proposed by you would reduce that judgment to a little below

Bolding, and asking my advice. I am not at liberty to give official advice to private parties.

My dear Sir: I have delayed answering yours of the 4th, in the hope that I might be able to send a satisfactory

I do not see that the matters which you state authorize any official action on my part.

Sir: I have received your letter of the 3d instant, requesting my opinion upon the legality of the call

shall be able to find some one as faithful and attentive to take your place; and with the assurance of my

do not therefore feel at liberty to direct the proposed improvements to be made from any funds under my

the Current, I do not feel at liberty to give further directions in this matter than are contained in my

In my letter of the 29th of August last I directed you, in pursuance of a suggestion from the War Department

It was my supposition from your previous communication that the offences which you alleged were perpetuated

Upon the receipt of his reply, I will give you my views concerning the expediency of complying with the

He lay on bed in his room—his eyes open—his look rather vacant: seemed a little startled by my entrance

Adding, as I edged towards the door—"Give my love to any of the boys you meet: tell them I still sit

Except for the Whitman portions pretty dry—not well put and kept together—but enheightens my respect

play of causes, (With vast results to come for thrice a thousand years,) These recitatives for thee,—my

"Finally my children, to envelop each word, each part of the rest, Allah is all, all, all—is immanent

play of causes, (With vast results to come for thrice a thousand years,) These recitatives for thee,—my

solitary woody pond, (half the time naked or half-naked)—am now quite fat & all tanned & red—Love to you, my

might insure the publication of the book; for purchasers of L. of G. are of all most likely to buy my