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Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 13 May 1891

  • Date: May 13, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

54 Manchester Road Bolton, England May 13 th 1891 830pm My Dear Walt Whitman I have just finished the

God grant that this may be so, my dear brave old Friend!

Annotations Text:

It is postmarked: Bolton | 56 | MY 13 | 91; Bolton | 56 | MY 13 | 91; Bolton | 56 | MY 13 | 91; Bolton

| 56 | MY 13 | 91; New York | May | 22, Paid | D | All; A | 91; Camden, N.J.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 27 May 1891

  • Date: May 27, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

. | May 27 | 8 PM | 91; London | PM | MY 29 | 91 | Canada.

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

To the Sunset Breeze

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

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of an original

Bravo, Paris Exposition!

  • Date: 28 September 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of an original

?To the ?sunset Breeze

  • Date: about 1889
Text:

It later appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and, as part of the Good-Bye my Fancy annex, in the so-called

To the sunset breeze

  • Date: 1889
Text:

which was published in Lippincott's Magazine as To the Sunset Breeze in December 1890, in Good-Bye My

Fancy (1891) and, as part of the Good-Bye my Fancy annex, in the so-called deathbed edition of Leaves

To the Sun-Set Breeze

  • Date: about 1890
Text:

It later appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and, as part of the Good-Bye my Fancy annex, in the so-called

But only pond-babble

  • Date: 1890-1891
Text:

the recto are prefatory in nature and reflect the spirit of the preface to Whitman's 1891 Good-Bye My

the mullein and the bumble-bee" is on page 36 of the section entitled Gathering the Corn of Good-Bye My

Walt Whitman to Hannah Whitman Heyde, 10 February 1891

  • Date: February 10, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Am at my 2d annex for L Leaves of G.

Annotations Text:

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 26 February 1891

  • Date: February 26, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

rec'd —thanks—first dribbles of proof begin f'm "Good-Bye" —dark slushy glum weather—just finish'd my

Annotations Text:

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

Youth's Companion

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Susan Belasco
Annotations Text:

.; Reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).

New York World

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Susan Belasco
Annotations Text:

.; Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

Old Chants

  • Date: 19 March 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Transcribed from a digital image of a micfrofilm copy of an original

Complete Prose Works

  • Date: 1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

GOOD-BYE MY FANCY.

My health is somewhat better, and my spirit at peace.

Indeed all my ferry friends—captain Frazee the superintendent, Lindell, Hiskey, Fred Rauch, Price, Watson

my ear.

Gilchrist—friends of my soul—stanchest friends of my other soul, my poems. ONLY A NEW FERRY BOAT.

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 17 June 1891

  • Date: June 17, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

England June 17 th 1891 Just another word of loving greeting & good cheer, wafted from over sea to you my

be very pleased to supply you I have received a nice letter from Ernest Rhys in which he says that my

Though we are now fast approaching Midsummer Day—my dear, old Mother's Birthday—we have had very little

tassels— Later Since writing the above I have received yr kind pc of June 6 for which I return you my

Annotations Text:

volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My

Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's

  • Date: February 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm

My 71st Year

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

My 71st Year

Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm

Ship Ahoy!

  • Date: 12 March 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm

The Pallid Wreath

  • Date: 10 January 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm

Gustav A. Roedell to Walt Whitman, [January 1891]

  • Date: [January 1891]
  • Creator(s): Gustav A. Roedell
Text:

dare I beg that you will do me the great pleasure to transcribe your poem, The Pallid Wreath , for my

Annotations Text:

Pallid Wreath" was published in the Critic on January 10, 1891; the poem was also reprinted in Good-Bye My

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 29 March 1891

  • Date: March 29, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

Whitman is referring to the group of thirty-one poems taken from the book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) that

my Fancy (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed.

A Twilight Song

  • Date: about 1890
Text:

It was reprinted, without the subtitle, in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and in the Good-By my Fancy annex

Walt Whitman by Mathew Brady, ca. 1869 - 1871

  • Date: ca. 1869 - 1871
  • Creator(s): Brady, Mathew B.
Text:

photo in 1889 that Whitman explained what he saw to be the difficulty of photographing him properly: "my

red, florid, blooded complexion—my gray dull eyes—don't consort well together: they require different

Startle, strikingness, brilliancy, are not factors in my appearance—not a touch of them.

As for me I think the greatest aid is in my insouciance—my utter indifference: my going as if it meant

Sail out for good? for aye, O mystic yacht!

  • Date: 1890 or 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

to speed take me truly really on to deep waters Now, now to thy divinest venture (I will not call it my

Good bye My Fancy | Sail out for Good Etc | Page 7—Good Bye My Fancy This manuscript is a draft of "Sail

Annotations Text:

"; Good bye My Fancy | Sail out for Good Etc | Page 7—Good Bye My Fancy; Transcribed from digital images

As in a Swoon

  • Date: Between 1872 and 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

not included in any subsequent editions of Leaves, Whitman did include it in the 1891 volume Good-Bye My

Annotations Text:

not included in any subsequent editions of Leaves, Whitman did include it in the 1891 volume Good-Bye My

not included in any subsequent editions of Leaves, Whitman did include it in the 1891 volume Good-Bye My

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 30 May 1891

  • Date: May 30, 1891
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

My Dear Walt Whitman, Our best & warmest thanks to you for your kindness in sending us the advance copy

of "Good Bye My Fancy," which reached us by last mail!

for reading it—I have had a fearfully busy week—but I could not let the mail go without sending you my

Better , I sincerely hope & trust, my good kind old friend.

household & with my heart's best love to you Yours affectionately J.

Annotations Text:

It is postmarked: BOLTON | 56 | MY 30 | 91; Camden, N.J. | Jun | 7 | 4 PM | 1891 | Rec'd.; Paid | B |

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 15 April 1891

  • Date: April 15, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Whitman is referring to the proofs for his book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was Whitman's last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short prose works

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy 2d Annex" to Leaves of Grass

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman to Benton H. Wilson, [12 April 1867]

  • Date: April 12, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

My dear loving boy, I wish things were situated so you could be with me, & we could be together for a

I must put something to you better than that in my letter.

So I will cheer my boy [&] tell you again, Benton, that I love you dearly, & always keep you in mind,

Annotations Text:

I am a married man but I am not happy for my disposition is not right.

1867 letter, Wilson acknowledged Walt Whitman's reply of April 12: "I do not want you to misunderstand my

motives in writing to you of my Situation & feelings as I did in my last letter or else I shall have

to be more guarded in my letters to you.

I wrote so because you wanted me to write how I was situated, and give you my mind without reserve, and

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 28 May 1891

  • Date: May 28, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

May. 1891 My dear Walt Whitman, A few offhand words only while the opportunity exists (my last chance

He had just received " Good-Bye My Fancy " & lent it to me that I might look it over tonight.

My thoughts are with you continually.

(I wished to have a full meeting of the friends but different circumstances & my own health prevent it

Loving congratulations to you) My heart's best love & tenderest wishes to you always J. W.

Annotations Text:

.; Bolton | 56 | MY 30 | 91.

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

In his March 9, 1892, letter to Traubel, Greenhalgh wrote that "Walt has taught me 'the glory of my daily

In all the departments of my life Walt entered with his loving personality & I am never alone" (Horace

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 22 May 1881

  • Date: May 22, 1881
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

It is postmarked: LONDON | AM | MY 23 | 81 | CANADA.

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 10 June 1885

  • Date: June 10, 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

MS—It has a magnificence of strength, originality & suggestion —& I adhere fully to what I advised in my

Annotations Text:

This letter is endorsed: "on MS of my | 'Poet As A | Craftsman.'"

Walt Whitman to Karl Knortz, 10 January 1884

  • Date: January 10, 1884
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

"A Backward Glance on My Own Road."

Good-Bye My Fancy

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

OV 2Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), Manuscript draftloc.05452xxx.00459Good-Bye My Fancyabout 1891poetryprosehandwrittenprintedabout

10 leaves; Manuscript and corrected print material that was included in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

Good-Bye My Fancy

My Seventieth Year

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

1888poetryhandwritten1 leaf; Draft of a poem later revised and published under the title Queries to My

My Seventieth Year

Shakespere Bacon's Cipher

  • Date: October 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) under the title "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher.

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 4 September 1873

  • Date: September 4, 1873
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

Sept 4–1873 I am entirely satisfied & at peace "my Beloved—no words can say how divine a peace.

My Darling! take comfort & strength & joy from me that you have made so rich & strong.

When my eyes first open in the morning, often such tender thoughts yearning ineffably pitying sorrowful

my hands want to be so helpful, tending, soothing, serving my whole frame to support the stricken side

My children send their love, their earnest sympathy.

Annotations Text:

not think hard of me for not writing oftener, especially the last seven months—If you could look into my

his letter to Anne Gilchrist of August 18, 1873, a ring: "The enclosed ring I have just taken from my

finger & send you with my love."

, 1873, she wrote about her children; and on December 18, 1873, she said of his health: "Perhaps if my

I turn my face to the westward sky and before I lie down to sleep, deep & steadfast within me the silent

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 17 March 1876

  • Date: March 17, 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In that I have described my situation fully & candidly. My new edition is printed & ready.

My health I am encouraged to think is perhaps a shade better—certainly as well as any time of late.

but yet again they may,) of changes, journeys—even of coming to London, of seeing you, of visiting my

My dearest friend, I do not approve your American trans–settlement —I see so many things here, you have

As to my literary situation here, my rejection by the coteries—& my poverty, (which is the least of my

Annotations Text:

On February 25, 1876, she was ecstatic: "Soon, very soon I come, my darling. . . . this is the last spring

Hold out but a little longer for me, my Walt."

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

March 30, 1876, Gilchrist refused Walt Whitman's advice: "I can't exactly obey that, for it has been my

, she could not curb her ardor, writing on April 21, 1876: "sweetest deepest greatest experience of my

The Cosmopolitan

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Susan Belasco
Annotations Text:

.; Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) under the title "Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher."

William Harrison Riley to Walt Whitman, 4 April 1879

  • Date: April 4, 1879
  • Creator(s): William Harrison Riley
Text:

George's Farm, Totley nr Sheffield, England. 4.4.79 My dear Friend and Guide.

Annotations Text:

He addressed Whitman as "My dear Friend and Master" in a letter on March 5, 1879.

In all my troubles and successes I have been strengthened by your divine teachings."

Whitman, late in life, said to Horace Traubel: "[I] take my Ruskin with some qualifications."

Walt Whitman to Dr. John Johnston, 10 March 1891

  • Date: March 10, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Thirty-one poems from Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy

For more information see Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, [23 February 1873]

  • Date: February 23, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

rocking chair by the stove— I have just eat some dinner, a little piece of fowl & some toast & tea— my

The doctor comes every day—(I must tell you again I have a first-rate doctor— I think he understands my

thinking all the time it was the day of Matty's funeral— Every few minutes all day it would come up in my

Annotations Text:

she had moved to Camden, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman complained to Helen Price: "i would rather have my

own shanty and my good friends come to see me" (Pierpont Morgan Library).

, 1873: "i wouldentwouldn't mind living here if i had a place of my own but this living with and not

To the Year 1889

  • Date: 5 January 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Reprinted under the new title "To the Pending Year" in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is

Poem

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

See in particular the opening line: "I WANDER all night in my vision," (1855, p. 70).; There is also

I fling out my fancies toward them;" (1855, p. 38).; 2; 3

Sun-Down Papers.—[No. 8]

  • Date: 20 October 1840
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Compare to, "I loafe and invite my soul,/ I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer

eagerly scanned to discover the object of my labours.

, and brighter, and more precious than earthly jewels; but in vain, for it eluded my sight.

which had been showered upon my mind. * * * * * * * The agitation of my thoughts, however, broke my slumbers

I slowly wended my way homeward, my soul improved in knowledge, and determined to treasure during life

Annotations Text:

.; Compare to, "I loafe and invite my soul,/ I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of

Walt Whitman to Edward Carpenter, 23 April 1876

  • Date: April 23, 1876
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—No letter has yet reached me, specifying an order for my books, new edition—but if one does not come

Annotations Text:

.; Leeds | 162 | 10 My | 76."

Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my

Walt Whitman to David McKay, 26 November 1888

  • Date: November 26, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Traubel writes: "Changed his cover design at McKay's [at] my suggestion.

I keep it among my records" (Monday, November 26, 1888).

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 27 July 1875

  • Date: July 27, 1875
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Don't mind my long silences.

My illness has not lifted since I last wrote you, & is still upon me—the last two or three months the

Walt Whitman Before enveloping my letter, I take a good long, long look at the photographs—with all their

, not without solemnity—which you must understand without my writing it—comes over me, like a little

sun–cloud, this vapory day—& with that, & once again my love, I close.

Annotations Text:

4–6, 1874, she wrote: "I believe if I could only make you conscious of the love, the enfolding love my

letter) she had received Whitman's ring "that put peace and joy and yet such pain of yearning into my

heart—pain for you, my Darling & sorrowing helpless love that waits and must wait useless, afar off,

Friend, be indulgent, as indeed I know you will be, of these poor letters of mine with their details of my

Have I no word for thee

  • Date: about 1889
Text:

the verso (not in Whitman's hand) makes reference to the title of this poem, as well as to Good-Bye My

The poem was retitled To the Pending Year for its inclusion in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) Have I no word

Truth

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Susan Belasco
Annotations Text:

.; Reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

A Twilight Song

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

Revised and reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; Our transcription is based on a digital image of

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