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36 DESPAIRING cries float ceaselessly toward me, day and night, The sad voice of Death—the call of my
alarmed, uncertain, This sea I am quickly to sail, come tell me, Come tell me where I am speeding—tell me my
Whitman, Thy welcome card came just as we were leaving London last week, after a very sad week with my
I am using these days of leisure to mature a scheme of education for Ray, & enlarge my list of books
George said he dident didn't think lane expected it but i suppose he wanted to be ready i am better of my
lameness but not entirely over it my knee is so weak but i think it will get better after a while it
institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my
“No parish money, no loaf, No pauper badges for me, A son of the soil, by right of toil Entitled to my
No alms I ask, give me my task Here are the arm, the leg, The strength, the sinews of a man, To work
W. said: "My friends there—I think Kennedy for one—say he was put up to it—that there was more in the
to The Critic piece he said again as he had said before: "It is nothing: I sent it because it was in my
Yes, I have no reason to question it: but better than all that—than anything else—seems the word of my
I was a tough—obscene: indeed, it was my obscenity, libidinousness, all that, upon which they made up
Dear Walt:I have been so ill, and so burdened with the office charge, being scarcely able to hold my
I cannot, of course, convey to others that particular kind of influence, which is derived from my being
I must hardly expect, therefore, that to those who hear it through the medium of my pen, the narration
times which marked our American Revolution that the incidents occurred which are the foundation of my
Again I ask pardon for my rudeness. Let me now be shown to this chamber—this haunted chamber.
He came to my very bed-side; his small hand was raised, and almost touched my face.
Bucke is referring to Whitman's poem "My 71st Year," which would be published in Century Illustrated
Whitman found the visitor interesting but too effusive: "My main objection to him, if objection at all
entitled "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" and sixty-five poems; while the second, "Good-Bye my
W. said then too, "I was never more tickled then when one of the old priests told me that my politeness
postal for Bucke to mail, said of Forman he had given him power to treat with Balestier, "to act as my
My friends tell me—no, no, that is not for you, Wagner is for you.
To such an one will I doff my beaver. Whitman here means to tip his hat.
For my part, I have had serious thoughts of getting up a regular ticket for President and Congress and
It is my impression, too, that we should poll a pretty strong vote. We number largely in the land.
W. has at last started reading Tolstoy's My Confession.
If I could only know that it has pleased you I should bless my stars fervently.I have been in vain trying
feeling sure of your friendship and I should try to live the real life there for your sake as well as for my
"One thing is gone utterly and forever—my agility," he said as we walked across the room. Sat down.
Gave me Herald containing the review: again approved "its excellent good judgment in letting me state my
I sometimes found the man a corpse in the morning by whose side I laid my self down at night.
In spite of my efforts he would sometimes rise, and then I had to close in with him, trip up his heels
By one of these thrusts, more spiteful and violent than common, I had a narrow escape of my life.
No English physician, or any one from the city, ever to my knowledge came near us.
My constitution was less muscular and plethoric, and I escaped the fever longer than any of the thirteen
Sir: My attention has been called by the Secretary of the Treasury to the probable fact of the custody
To the President: Sir: I find on file in my office certain charges against Luther C.
as District Attorney during this vacancy, I have no person to address to accomplish the objects of my
As I desire to do my duty under that resolution, I wish to be informed by any person who has knowledge
It has been my intention, as you are aware, that no inconvenience or expense should be imposed upon you
The subject had been brought to my notice before, by a rumor that there had been remissness on the part
My original direction, following the request in the letter received from your Department was confined
recommend the acceptance of the offer in the terms in which it is made, for the reasons I have given in my
Sir: I have received your telegram of the 12th inst. in reply to my letter of the 10th inst. both relating
Still, I am not absolutely certain that my construction is right, and you do well to make the point.
I hope you will give yourself no uneasiness upon the matter of your retainer, and promise my personal
I desire to add my own personal tribute to your worth and character as an officer of the United States—as
4, 1889Did not see Whitman today, but he went over proof-sheets I left with him and sent them up to my
Yet that it is my notion something will have to be added.
It made my heart glad. McAlister had left his weekly report for me to forward to Bucke.
I think the house might well be used with my article.W. said, "I am still curious about the Atlantic,
I spent rest of the day working on my New England Magazine piece. In evening we went to B.'
And to my negative—"It has no difficulties to me," he said, "I see it is hypercritical: let it go as
Glad he approves idea of a little piece from Clifford.W. called my attention to "a couple of waifs—letters
I am disposed more and more to keep to my room—not to go out. Which I see—count—to be a bad sign."
latter years, when asked how he could have done so much, he replied, "Have I not spent fifty years at my
am a Russ, An arctic sailor traversing I traverse the sea of Kara A Kamskatkan Kamchatkan drawn on my
Poem for of of adherence to of my adherence the good old cause the "good old cause" is that in all its
sake, Of departing—of the growth of a mightier race than any yet, Of myself, soon, perhaps, closing up my
Where day and night I wend thy surf-beat shore, Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions, (
regard for you (to help us) but I did not write—one grows desperate under difficulties you know, and my
So he has expressed back boxes—I lone prepaid all charges—My chances to sell are better here— We have
monday Monday afternoon My dear walt Walt as i am here in the sellen salon or dining room as its called
to-day to be what you are, than to be him, with his $10,000 a year—poor thin-livered cuss that he is— My
Dear brother I am in a tremendious hurry, and you must excuse my letter.
I am now back again in my old position at 168 Broadway, behind the desk. —So please address me here.
I am trying to get a picture of old Boston 100 years ago in my mind.
Sunset Breeze" first appeared in Lippincott’s Magazine (December 1890) and was reprinted in Good-Bye My
New Haven Conn: July 1, 1885 PO Box 489 My dear Whitman: I see by the papers that you may be going to
A thousand thanks my dear Walt Whitman for all you have written, I shall always be your debtor.
I am in great mourning that I can't get my reply to Richard Grant White on the Bacon-Shakespeare matter
My annual Report is most done hope to finish it tomorrow—all well here!
My dear Friend: I received your beautiful gift yesterday afternoon just in time for Xmas, and I cannot