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Amos T. Akerman to George A. Black, 6 May 1871

  • Date: May 6, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Amos T. Akerman to George A. Hitchcock, 24 May 1871

  • Date: May 24, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Amos T. Akerman to George C. Wharton, 21 December 1871

  • Date: December 21, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Amos T. Akerman to J. H. Standish, 26 December 1871

  • Date: December 26, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Amos T. Akerman to Samuel F. Phillips, 1 November 1871

  • Date: November 1, 1871
  • Creator(s): Akerman, Amos T. | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Friday, April 4, 1890

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

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

I am that half grown

  • Date: Before 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Old Fellows

  • Date: Around 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

I do not expect to see myself

  • Date: 1870s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

and legislatures—but presently I expect to see myself in magazines, schools, and legislatures—or that my

You there

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Open your mouth gums my pardy, that I put send blow grit in you with one a breath ; Spread your palms

To Thee, Old Cause!

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

With yet unknown results to come, for thrice a thou- sand thousand years,) These recitatives for thee—my

Walt Whitman to Benjamin Ticknor, 18 December 1881

  • Date: December 18, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Camden N J Dec. 18 '81 My dear Ben: Ticknor Thank you for your (& O'Reilley's O'Reilly's ) suggestion

Walt Whitman to Robert Buchanan, 4 September 1876

  • Date: September 4, 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Please see that the photograph is given to the School of Art, with my affectionate respects.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 9 July 1889

  • Date: July 9, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

I have offered & agreed to return her $5.00—one of Wm's subscriptions, thinking one of my books w d be

William O. McDowell to Walt Whitman, 21 August 1891

  • Date: August 21, 1891
  • Creator(s): William O. McDowell
Text:

"Walt Whitman" My dear Sir On Oct 12th (Discovery day falls this year on Sunday) our Pan Republic Congress

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 14 September 1890

  • Date: September 14, 1890
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

My imagination is too vivid. I have to throw him aside. W. S. K.

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 16 April [1874]

  • Date: April 16, [1874]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Dear son, I send you my letter a day ahead this week —Nothing new with me—rec'd the letter of last Sunday—also

John Swinton to Walt Whitman, 5 February 1865

  • Date: February 5, 1865
  • Creator(s): John Swinton
Text:

Feb. 5 New York My dear Walt— I most cheerfully write the note you request to Gen.

James Redpath to Walt Whitman, 23 October 1885

  • Date: October 23, 1885
  • Creator(s): James Redpath
Text:

My Dear Walt Whitman: I am very, very sorry to learn that your physical condition is so low and that

Joseph M. Stoddart to Walt Whitman, 7 February 189[1]

  • Date: February 7, 189[1]
  • Creator(s): Joseph Marshall Stoddart | Joseph M. Stoddart
Text:

Whitman:— During my absence your note of the 4th, inst was left here by Mr. Traubel.

Walt Whitman to Hannah Whitman Heyde, 22 December 1890

  • Date: December 22, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Camden Dec: 22 1890 Dear sister Han Merry Christmas to you first thing, from my heart and soul—Nothing

Walt Whitman to Hannah Whitman Heyde, 7 December 1891

  • Date: December 7, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Camden N J — Dec December : 7 '91 Dear Sister Y'r your postal card came & was welcomed—my bad spell continues

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 3 December 1889

  • Date: December 3, 1889
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

29 reporting that you had been downstairs on 28 to a dinner of "Roast Turkey & Plum Pudding" I gave my

George J. Spinner to Walt Whitman, 28 November 1891

  • Date: November 28, 1891
  • Creator(s): George J. Spinner
Text:

My Kind Sir: I am try ing hard to collect the auto gra phs of all the men of note all parts of the country

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, 24 [March 1870]

  • Date: March 24, 1870
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

is dead i will write to george George i feel very sad of course if he has done ever so wrong he was my

Annotations Text:

institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my

William Carey to Walt Whitman, 5 December 1891

  • Date: December 5, 1891
  • Creator(s): William Carey
Text:

My dear Mr Whitman: I have sent you by express today a new etching which I think you will like.

Kenningale Cook to Walt Whitman, 23 April 1877

  • Date: April 23, 1877
  • Creator(s): Kenningale Cook
Text:

could be offered for them, as the Magazine has been neglected of late, and has only recently come into my

Edward F. Strickland, Jr. to Walt Whitman, 7 April 1876

  • Date: April 7, 1876
  • Creator(s): Edward F. Strickland, Jr. | Walt Whitman
Text:

large collection to which I earnestly desire to add your name, especially as I am trying to complete my

John Swinton to Walt Whitman, 19 October 1870

  • Date: October 19, 1870
  • Creator(s): John Swinton
Text:

I was afraid of Ripley but Reid confirmed my impression that Greeley is or has been favorable, and he

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 15 March 1890

  • Date: March 15, 1890
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

I am quite poorly—grippe—attacks my stomach—yet I succeed in managing the fires, and keep the house comfortable

Walt Whitman to Logan Pearsall Smith, 16 August [1887]

  • Date: August 16, [1887]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

is welcomed—Nothing specially new with me—I have stood the hot weather pretty well & have just eaten my

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 30 August 1888

  • Date: August 30, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

If you would tell Horace to write me your decision on each of these points you would relieve my mind

Henry Hopkins to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1891

  • Date: November 2, 1891
  • Creator(s): Henry Hopkins
Text:

greeting: the enclosed S on have already "said give lectures or a little charity, ve out of myself." in my

Julia Hine to Walt Whitman, 12 November [1891]

  • Date: November 12, [1891]
  • Creator(s): Julia Hine
Text:

Flat bush L I Nov 12 th From time of your health I will surety to my Ch arles Hine ) til form how he

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 5 March 1878

  • Date: March 5, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

(In my last letter among the names proposed was S S Cox, M C— I wish that name cancelled )—I should well

Walt Whitman to James R. Osgood, 20 May 1881

  • Date: May 20, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Camden New Jersey May 20 '81 My dear Mr Osgood Yours rec'd received , & accordingly I am fixing up the

Walt Whitman to Daniel Longaker, 7 June 1891

  • Date: June 7, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

June 7, 1891 Sunday ev'ng, 4:30 Have just had my 2d meal, mutton and rice stew, wet Graham toast, &c.

Walt Whitman to James W. Wallace, 28 May 1891

  • Date: May 28, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Give my loving compliments to all the boys, & give this scrawl to Wentworth Dixon to keep if he cares

Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti, 19 October 1875

  • Date: October 19, 1875
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

My dear Mr. Rossetti, Let me by this introduce to you an old and valued friend of mine, J. B.

Walt Whitman to John Swinton, 12 April [1876]

  • Date: April 12, 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

When you see any thing notable or pungent about me or my affairs, send it to me, as I neither see or

Frederick Locker-Lampson to Walt Whitman, 13 October 1880

  • Date: October 13, 1880
  • Creator(s): Frederick Locker-Lampson | Thomas Donaldson
Text:

If you have not received it, may I send it to you again, when I will explain my wishes?

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, 5 October [1871]

  • Date: October 5, 1871
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

Oct October 5 my dear walt i send you the receipt for the money george has sent you by addams s express

Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 10 October [1880]

  • Date: October 10, 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Kirkwood (Glendale) New Jersey U S America Oct October 10 Have come back all right from my Canadian trip

Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 25 December [1878]

  • Date: December 25, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

holidays—I shall send him your present address—havn't seen E's portrait yet—I am writing this up in my

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 6 March 1888

  • Date: March 6, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

Have heard nothing yet from Lippencott Lippincott and have done nothing further about my piece but all

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 14 August [1883]

  • Date: August 14, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

country, house, large library, garden—the family (they too special friends of mine) all away at Newport—my

Walt Whitman to Ernest Rhys, 8 March 1887

  • Date: March 8, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

or your own judgment require— I will probably send a short MS to be added on p 199 or p 200 to bring my

Walt Whitman to James R. Osgood & Company, 8 December 1881

  • Date: December 8, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

My friend seems to speak in a very recommendatory manner of D.

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 9 February [1873]

  • Date: February 9, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

to-day—I feel so bad about Mat—I am still improving—but slowly though I realize some improvement every day—my

Friday, April 19, 1889

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

and his face assumed its serious aspect.He said again: "I got two letters in my mail today—one from Doctor

Harned's boy was there, also, coming forward in the dark when he heard my voice and informing me, "I

That would be my understanding of him." W. said he had written to Mary Costelloe today.

Then he continued: "In my mail today was a letter from Kennedy.

I said that for my part I looked upon Stedman's position as thoroughly firm and genuine.

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