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Search : of captain, my captain!

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Amos T. Akerman to Garret Haudenbick, 10 December 1870

  • Date: December 10, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

If, upon final investigation I should arrive at a different result, my pleasure in doing so will be much

Amos T. Akerman to William S. Huntington, 12 January 1871

  • Date: January 12, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

no new facts having been presented to me, I do not feel at liberty to interfere with the action of my

Amos T. Akerman to James G. Blaine, 8 February 1871

  • Date: February 8, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Wells send the account to you, with my recommendation that it be paid. Very respectfully, &c A. T.

Amos T. Akerman to D. J. Baldwin, 10 November 1871

  • Date: November 10, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

perplexity appears to have arisen from the use of the phrase "civil prosecution," which was quoted in my

Amos T. Akerman to James B. McKean, 11 September 1871

  • Date: September 11, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

I write now to say that my omission to answer it immediately was from no indifference to the affairs

Monday, March 31, 1890

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

"If I keep this way I fear for my promise to the club: still, I guess I won't: I guess there'll be a

Sunday, April 20, 1890

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

Thursday evening, upon my questions, he had said: "I should have gone out, to be sure—but was stagnated

Friday, May 15, 1891

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

"I took nearly all that one bottle—it was good—yet it seemed to affect my bladder and I thought it best

Friday, June 12, 1891

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

—some of them in a wrapper improvised from the envelope of one of my letters.

Tuesday, August 4, 1891

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

W. seems in excellent condition, to judge from appearances, though he avers, "My color misreports me.

But when a voice in our hearing

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

But when a voice in my our hearing excuses this Fugitive damned Act, because it binds no leg and breaks

The crowds naked in the

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

Can my your sight behold them as with oysters eyes?

Unfolded Out of the Folds.

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

Unfolded only out of the inimitable poem of the wo- man woman can come the poems of man—(only thence have my

Night on the Prairies.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

arrive, or pass'd on farther than those of the earth, I henceforth no more ignore them than I ignore my

As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days.

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Then my realities; What else is so real as mine?

Night on the Prairies.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

arrive, or pass'd on farther than those of the earth, I henceforth no more ignore them than I ignore my

As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days.

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Then my realities; What else is so real as mine?

Poem of Women.

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Unfolded only out of the inimitable poem of the woman can come the poems of man — only thence have my

Robert G. Ingersoll to Walt Whitman, 12 December 1891

  • Date: December 12, 1891
  • Creator(s): Robert G. Ingersoll
Text:

400, 5th Ave, Dec 12. 91— My dear Mr.

Anson Ryder Jr. to Walt Whitman, 9 August 1865

  • Date: August 9, 1865
  • Creator(s): Anson Ryder Jr.
Text:

Wood is with [me] here at my old home says it is not very natural here does not seem at all like an hospital

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 9 February 1863

  • Date: February 9, 1863
Text:

there, for any purpose—In some haste, dearest mother, as I am off to visit for an hour or so, one of my

Jeannette L. Gilder to Walt Whitman, 2 January 1876

  • Date: January 2, 1876
  • Creator(s): Jeannette L. Gilder
Text:

Jan. 2, 1876 My dear Mr.

Thomas E. Vale to Walt Whitman, 12 December 1890

  • Date: December 12, 1890
  • Creator(s): Thomas E. Vale
Text:

Dec r /90 Professor Walt Whitman— Camden New Jersey Dear Sir, I thought the enclosed cutting out of my

Joseph M. Stoddart to Walt Whitman, 10 October 1890

  • Date: October 10, 1890
  • Creator(s): Joseph M. Stoddart
Text:

Lippincott's Monthly Magazine Philadelphia, Oct. 10— 18 90 My Dear Mr. Whitman.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 11 March 1888

  • Date: March 11, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

Have done nothing more with my W.W. paper, shall rewrite it as soon as I get a little time (a mighty

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 4 May 1890

  • Date: May 4, 1890
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

We have moved back here from Po'keepsie Poughkeepsie & I am very busy in my farm & fairly happy.

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, [29] February 1892

  • Date: February [29], 1892
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

My sign reads, ["]C. L.

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 26 June [1873]

  • Date: June 26, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Pete, I am not having a very good time—My head troubles me—yesterday was as bad as ever—as far from well

William J. Linton to Walt Whitman, 21 August 1875

  • Date: August 21, 1875
  • Creator(s): William J. Linton
Text:

Aug: 21, 1875 My dear Whitman: First—how are you getting on?

Charles F. Sloane to Walt Whitman, 23 June 1888

  • Date: June 23, 1888
  • Creator(s): Charles F. Sloane
Text:

I am a young man—a Californian—my home being in Los Angeles— and always your steadfast admirer Chas F

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 6 December 1888

  • Date: December 6, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

We are all well here I send you my love R M Bucke Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 6 December 1888

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 28 September 1888

  • Date: September 28, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

I note all you say about my "W.W" Your wishes will be religiously respected I did think of considerable

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 22 December 1889

  • Date: December 22, 1889
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

almost nothing from the outside world these times, and am too much occupied to do anything outside my

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 2 September 1888

  • Date: September 2, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

little "Old Age's Lambent Peaks" appears in the just out Century —Maurice, I should like you to have my

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 8 August 1888

  • Date: August 8, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

is and has been warm even here but not disagreeably so—you will recollect that I have proofs to 117 —my

W. A. Jellison to Walt Whitman, 9 March 1864

  • Date: March 9, 1864
  • Creator(s): W. A. Jellison
Text:

Surprised to learn that I am in Washington but here I am and will try and give you a few details of my

Joseph Harris to Walt Whitman, 5 September 1864

  • Date: September 5, 1864
  • Creator(s): Joseph Harris
Text:

writing to you, and I take the opportunity of sending a few lines in his letter , as a slight token of my

Martha Whitman to Walt Whitman, 27 February 1870

  • Date: February 27, 1870
  • Creator(s): Martha Whitman
Text:

for St Louis this afternoon he was very sorry that he could not see you. but I am certainly coming on my

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 24 October 1891

  • Date: October 24, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

absolute power —J W W[allace] is here—to go down with the Staffords to-morrow—shall presently make my

Walt Whitman to F. Leypoldt, 23 July 1877

  • Date: July 23, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

N J New Jersey July 23 '77 F Leypoldt Dear Sir In answer to your circular I send you the following— My

Of Him I Love Day and Night

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

in the room where I eat or sleep, I should be satisfied; And if the corpse of any one I love, or if my

A Defence of the Christian Doctrines of the Society of Friends

  • Date: After 1838; 1825
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Anonymous
Text:

the case, I examined the accounts given on this subject, by the four Evangelists, and according to my

scripture evidence for his being the son of Joseph than otherwise ; although it has not yet changed my

mighty bulwark, not easily removed, yet it has had this salutary effect, to deliver me from judging my

they were in the same belief with myself; neither would I dare to say, positively, that it would be my

how often has my poor soul been brought to this point, when temptations have arisen, 'Get thee behind

Walt Whitman's Poems

  • Date: December 1875
  • Creator(s): Bayne, Peter
Text:

I beat and pound for the dead; I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.

white locks at the runaway sun; I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags."

It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life."

"Between my knees my forehead was,— My lips, drawn in, said not, Alas!

My hair was over in the grass, My naked ears heard the day pass."

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hamilton Fish, 25 March 1869

  • Date: March 25, 1869
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

Seward, Secretary of State, of August 14, 1868, to my predecessor, Mr.

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to David Noggle, 22 July 1869

  • Date: July 22, 1869
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

As an original question, I should have had grave doubts upon it; but I did not think it my duty to suggest

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 5 September 1871

  • Date: September 5, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Louisiana, for falsely personating one Brown, a soldier to whom bounty money was due—and requesting my

Benjamin Helm Bristow to William McMichael, 13 September 1871

  • Date: September 13, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

of the 5th instant, referred to the Attorney General by your endorsement of this date, has received my

Amos T. Akerman to R. W. Tayler, 2 December 1871

  • Date: December 2, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

regulations issued by this Department to Marshals, relative to executing their bonds, you enquire whether in my

Amos T. Akerman to George H. Wright, 13 December 1871

  • Date: December 13, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

But it is my rule to direct compensation for no unauthorized services.

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 18 December 1871

  • Date: December 18, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

done by him as military duty while provost marshal for the Fourth District of Wisconsin, and inviting my

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