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My old friend— I have been away from home a great deal and have not had time to come over when at home
Dec December 20 '76 My dear Johnston Enclosed find check for $35 for which send me on immediately as
from O'Connor —when I do I will tell you—I write or send papers or something every day —Have just had my
March 24/88 Dear Mr Whitman My father and other members of the "Society of Old Brooklynites" are anxious
man for his autograph, but if I could see your name, written by yourself, on the fly leaf it would be my
stands in the way won't you please state what you will ask for it, and then I shall have the matter off my
Give my love to your father & mother, & to Harry, Ed & all.
I am busy as a bee today over my reprint.
very anxious I should know of the bad illness of a particular friend of mine, & so wrote to Kirkwood—My
I hope it is healing all right & will be no more trouble—Nothing new or special with me—Sold one of my
November 4. 1877 My dear Walt Whitman I send you by this mail a copy of one essay of mine which is just
My dear Mr.
.— My dear Mr.
Wilkins, two students of Trinity College, Dublin, were the first to draw my attention to your poetical
New York, June 14th 188 6 Walt Whitman Esq Trusting that the intelligence conveyed will plead for my
London 24 Sept. 1890 Dear Walt Whitman, Accept my thanks for your "rejoinder" and the newspaper that
enclose twenty Dollars which I hope you will accept in payment for one set of the books & as a token of my
It escaped me to mention in my previous letter that a Mr.
I go early in the morning (Sunday) to see Mary—my wife at Atlantic —but Monday will see you at 7 .
without it—have got it back again—it is looking cheerfully at me now from its bracket in the corner of my
My daughter Clare is still in bed but will be up in a day or two I trust.
My brother Eustace (Duke) was back again for the day and left for home (Ottawa) at 5.30 last evening.
. [—] I have had quite a time the last few days arranging and posting recent additions to my W. W.
She came down on tuesday she is well though tired when she arrived she sends her love to you give my
Tomorrow I think we shall all go for a 15 mile drive to Delaware—H., Anne, Mrs.B., my boy Maurice, self
No hitch so far about my getting off by the Brittannic on 8 .
night—She told me many little particulars I was glad to hear, though all is so sad—Nothing special in my
Sunday Jan 13 [1884] 1½ p m I am going out to a small dinner party of friends, & am sitting here in my
warmish, gloomy weather here for some days now and continues as if it had come to stay—Can hardly read in my
However, those few lines will at least serve as an unambiguous testimony of my deep and true devotion
pretty cold—Still it is spring here—evidences every way, every day—Much singing of birds, on some of my
i received your Papers last monday i have been Very anxious to write to you but the Death of one of my
—All is in good shape here and the folk all well—the health of the Asylum has been excellent during my
. … My brother thinks (and I think so, too) that if you have not committed yourself, you could not do
advance— I am still living here & comfortable & in good spirits enough but probably near the end of my
Another on page 74 (very bad) where my sturdy "I vaunt it and I stand by it," is spoiled by being rendered
while away the time—but fear being intrusive with them— I am living here in a little wooden house of my
plates of Leaves of Grass now in your charge have been transferred to me, & are henceforth subject to my
train from here—shall get to Camden by or before 8—I am well as usual—nothing new— I have sent George my
Louis, Sept. 11th 188 5 My dear Walt Enclosed please find check for $10—payable to your order This check
There was no hurry in his manner; having found me a seat, and then only leaving hold of my hand, he sad
had thought before (and I do not know that I had) that Whitman was eccentric, unbalanced, violent, my
Putting on his grey slouch hat he sallied forth with evident pleasure, and taking my arm as a support
My original idea was that if I could bring men together by putting before them the heart of man, with
As to my own opinion, why", said Holmes, "I have already given you that.
I could not shut my eyes to their wild, rough beauty nor close my soul to the truths they expressed.
I write simply to express my unqualified disgust with the portions I have read.
O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul!
Softly I lay my right hand upon you—you just feel it; I do not argue—I bend my head close, and half-
This leads in particular to cosmic visions in which dimensions have no value: "My ties and ballasts leave
me, my elbows rest in sea-gaps, / I skirt sierras, my palms cover continents . . ."
Testament Christ; he sees himself "[w]alking the old hills of Judæa with the beautiful gentle God by my
shown, Whitman's language echoes that of biblical writing: creeds and petitions ("I believe in you my
to the Bible can best be summed up in his own expectation of the disciple he seeks: "He most honors my
Jennie Gilder was "more disposed our way, but she is making money—at least that is my supposition (there
no money in the Critic) and has more or less resigned her place on the Critic: that, at any rate, is my
And so would say at my mention of feudalism—'does it do feudalism any good to have it presented in such
Gave me a copy of the Lear for Aggie, who projected having a big charcoal copy made by my father.
My advice would be in the words of Punch in its picture—the little word of four letters, printed as big
this earth, head-up, sorto"'—and he laughingly spelled "sorto" saying—"It is a word I often use—one of my
free and winged words—words that have thundered and ennobled the hearts and lives of millions—that my
As she fixed the bed, she mentioned my name, "Mr. Traubel is here."
Also Bucke—24th—calling my attention to "Death's Valley," not knowing I know too that it was not unchangedly
This with reference to my promise yesterday (my suggestion, too) to see Wilson Eyre—have him go to Camden
I informed W. of my idea to buy the 328 house, to preserve and guard.
John's Wood, N.W., London24 Sept. 1890Dear Walt Whitman,Accept my thanks for your "rejoinder" and the
Buxton FormanThis is the first day of my vacation.I referred to yesterday's paragraph in Post as "skimpy
Spoke of reading my piece, also editorial note on "The Kreutzer Sonata" in which he was mentioned.At