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usual—havn't been anywhere (though several invitations)—I keep good spirits, but grow clumsier & clumsier, & my

young folks (young ladies) & a small army of fine children—a large, quiet library—but the best thing is my

.— I have been thinking over the "Riddle Song" and have made up my mind that the answer is "Good Cause

piece—I shall write more at length another day, am rather crowded this morning I think I shall remodel my

The Manhattan is going to be revived shortly and is to print my paper, called "Hamlet's Note-Book", the

s article) but my copy has not the picture (very bad one by the way) [/] I am a little sorry therefore

My oldest boy, Maurice is appointed on the Geological Survey at $ 60.00 , and found—pretty good, eh?

early Spring—fall wheat very good but hay & spring crops mostly short and light I am well and send my

Friend Whitting, Sir, We received your kind and welcome letter inquiring for my boy Billy and in reply

Asylum for the Insane, London, Feb February 3 d 18 80 My dear Walt I have Burrough's book and also his

My dear Mr.

Let me add to the many my respectful and sincere greetings.

I must have known you all my life you are wonderful, how did you learn the sacred truth of Leaves of

be a rehash of what I have already said—still grip —bad head, pains &c:—am sitting here by stove in my

Whitman: I have been very much interested in your hospital work, of which I have heard through my brother

431 Stevens st Camden NJ Thanks my dear friend for your hospitable & affectionate letter, & invitations

plate are ready —I shall be coming along—will send you word when— I have hardly any thing to tell about my

Right away after Christmas I shall go to work in ernest earnest at my "Cosmic Consciousness" piece and

bookshelf, can see it from where I sit—it is very fine—I consider it one of the special treasures of my

I would be willing to make you an immediate payment of $250.00 on account and will do everything in my

That has always been my impression." I had a little volume with me containing Socrates' "Phaedo."

And on my response, "I don't like it—I don't think it supplies any want," he laughed.

to remember is that our old house is on a flat—that the Hills proper are a little distance off—where my

A grandson, I think, of the man who bought it from my father, so you see it has direct descent.

"It was the finest I ever tasted—but I feel short of my measure of it—some one of the waiters must have

suppose I got as much as was good for me—am probably in better condition for not having all that was my

I like it much—it is to me, for my intentions, indispensibleindispensable—the sun revolves about it,

But for me it is my necessity—it is all music—the clef of things—to discriminate—not so much to produce

I have no question but if I could meet him I could wheedle him about my thumb, and you can do it as well

He then, "I am sure it will come about all right: I usually find that my good demon does not nap in an

I will depute you, Horace, or Anne here, or Warrie, to take my place."

And when I told him my own preferences, "All simple tastes! All excellent simple tastes!"

My brother leaves me this afternoon—have just been having a fine game of backgammon with him—all well

have spent a horrible day—full of discomfort—sticky—sluggish—baddish more ways than I can tell: one of my

Brooklyn May th 5 1868 My dear Walt it seemed quite a treat to get your letter you are the only correspondente

to look at any more houses but was going to wait for something to turn up i am quite lame in one of my

—But of course my letter to you was not mailed, and now I have once more to reply to yours.— I am glad

kind and attentive to you, I assure you I did not think much of his bad delivery , but on the contrary my

, to the Hospital, &c. but I could not bring myself to go again—when I meet black men or boys among my

wards of a hospital, & trying to give a word of cheer, if nothing else, to every one, then confining my

'61 Camp Brooklyn near Baltimore June 28 My dear Mother Your letter and Walts came all right and glad

and down in the city but after ten O Clock it was as quiet as Brooklyn  Well good bye Mother  give my

long it treated mostly about a rabbitt rabbit in the wood house i must write to han as soon as i can my

arm keeps lame yet it gets up my arm more i got your letter yesterday walt with the money all safe if

3 Sept '63 My dear Walter i sit down to write you a few lines you have received georges letter before

georgee was sick a nd Andrew had gone and left her without any money i gave her one dollar and one of my

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

conventions" and even other Philosophers and Poets shall not "master"—And so I ask you, did I not conduct my

(My last before this were July 18 and Aug 14 I will relieve you of any fears that I shall (of myself)

Paul called Christ, Mohammed called Gabriel, Dante called Beatrice, and Whitman called My Soul.Bucke

Swoon" (this poem appeared in only three editions: Leaves of Grass, 1876, which Bucke used; Good-Bye My

Expressed great pleasure over my hearing from Morse to-daytoday.

pleased with such comparisons: I have a face: it seems to make up fairly well in a picture: that is all: my

made up for Oldach, he said, looking at me: "You know I am very arbitrary: always determined to have my

But as my opinion is not worth anything, being a boy, I should not have intruded it upon you.

"It should be printed before my birthday, on the 31st.

why Walsh did not print it: I have always considered him friendly to me: yes, friendly: he surely is my

"From books I have read about him—from my talks with him, with his friends—I do not consider that Emerson

"My sort, sort of!" To which W. replied: "Hardly—your sort of preacher is no preacher at all.

My first meeting with Walt Whitman occurred when I was a boy and had occasion to ask for a certain residence

I did not know who or what he was, but on his answering my question I was so struck with the quality

My first visit to him occurred some years later, in the little house on Mickle Street which has been

matter of punctuation, and it was a source of annoyance to find the title of his latest book, "Good Bye My

—They retard my book . . ."

As late as 1888 he said of phrenology to Horace Traubel: "I guess most of my friends distrust it—but

In "Song of Myself" the poet asserts: "Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me, / My

Dooryard Bloom'd," as one of his supreme achievements in this mode.Late in life Whitman commented, "My

Similarly, "the fine centrifugal spokes of light round the shape of my head in the sunlit water" (section

beginning of the poem Whitman calls the sights and sounds around him "glories strung like beads on my

My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Boston: Beacon, 1985. Coffman, Stanley K., Jr.

Browning, my predecessor in office. That opinion was transmitted to the Hon. J. M.

It is no part of my official duty to vindicate the rights of individual citizens, who have their remedy

In my letter of May 26th I informed you that the question whether the compensation should be paid by

M. for the War Dept., and requesting my views as to the reasonableness of the same.

of the assets of the bank for ratable distribution, or is the property of the Government, should, in my

I can now only say, generally, that if, under the law, it will be in my power to give adequate compensation

I enclose the account without my certificate for the reasons that it does not show where the services

Dear Sir: It is not in my power to furnish you any extended report of criminal cases in the U.S. courts

Her appeal, by the absence of exaggerations and other commendatory circumstances, has deeply moved my

decided to accept in discharge of their liability in a suit pending in court, with your approval, and my