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Philadelphia by cars & ferry—but bad, very bad spell all night—Eat my breakfast this morning, & here

Am so fixed that it is very convenient for my friends to call—Love to you.

aby] doing well, grows well, hearty & bright—the rest well as usual—E[dward] recovered, & all right—my

June 17, '75 1875 My dear Stedman, I have rec'd received your kind note, & am pleased that you remember

I shall select some scrap of my MS. & send you soon.

Real and Ideal) all sorts of things, prose & (my) poetry.

Street Camden Tuesday Aug August 7 Dear Comrade & Dear Son Your letter came this morning, & as I think my

Good bye for a couple of days, my own loving boy.

want you to tell (above every one) your mother and father I have written to you & that I send them my

York Saturday July 6 p m Dear son I supposed you rec'd a paper from me lately with an acc't of some of my

this forenoon to Sarony's, the great photographic establishment, where I was invited to come & sit for my

picture—had a real pleasant time—I will bring you on one of the pictures— My darling boy, I want to

Bethel had confessed to poisoning the Bishops—I will finish my letter & send it off to-morrow— Sunday

10th street,) is a fine, good bright child, not very rugged, but gets along very well—I take him in my

Down at White Horse At the Staffords'— Aug 3 My dear Herb I came down here yesterday afternoon in the

the lane & across the big field, but the strong sun welcome to me, for all that—Here I sit (have hung my

good—No mail to-day & I must wait to send this to-morrow— August 5th I am writing this up in Harry's & my

dinner—Much obliged for the designs on the block—very nice—also the letter—both arriving safe—Give my

hardly know where) for the rest of the summer, & will not forget to send some written or printed sign of my

sassier this winter so far than for some years, am very comfortable here, plain & quiet though—eat my

any book particular you want, you tell me, & I will try to get it—Lots of sleighs out, good sleighing—my

had dinner, hot soup, cold roast beef, apple pie—all good—the sun is out real warm, & I shall go at my

should just like to have a ten mile ride behind his nag with the sleigh bells—Dear boy, I send you my

with him" &c &c— Aleck , the ferry man thought, was her husband)— I am selling quite a good many of my

Then upon going to look where I had my bound books boxed & stored away, up in the garret at Mr.

—the missing letter not there—I am convinced it came to Haddonfield— 2.40 afternoon I have just had my

dinner & am up here in my third story room finishing this—it is a bright sunny day here, after the three

days' storm—I have been alone all day, but busy & contented—my room is just right for all the year except

dinner—the shoemaker has been over for his pitcher of cider—and there I hear Ruth calling me to come to my

dinner—so I must bid good bye to you for the present, & God bless you, my darling son— W W I think of

eye-works have resumed operations pretty nearly same as before—I see out of both now & a great blessing in my

getting along comfortably—the weather has been bad as can be & the traveling ditto, for three weeks past, my

last half-annual return of royalties for both my books just —$20.71cts —the death of Mrs.

she had the finest & perfectest nature I ever met—Glad to hear ab't about the Channing's —Give them my

love—I am scribbling in my little front room down stairs—the parrot has been squalling & the canary

Monday p m All ab't about the same with me—I took dinner with the Scovel family Sunday & a ride with my

W W My Dear Friend: I get a few good letters on my little essay on the poets.

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Feb: 6 '81 My dear J L G I send you the Carlyle piece as requested

forget to mention before (& perhaps is not strictly needed any how) I reserve the right to print any of my

there is just now a lively little thunderstorm coming on, (& over almost as soon as on)—I must finish my

& fixing the ground , more & more & more—& now that the seed is dropt dropped in it sprouts quickly—my

own feeling ab't about my book is that it makes (tries to make) every fellow see himself , & see that

real, & are mostly within reach of all—you chew on this— Hank, I am still feeling under the weather—My

thing to say — I have been staying alone here in the house, as the folks have gone off on summer trip—My

sister is at the White Mountains—I take my meals at Mrs Wroth's 319 Stevens—I like it—An old lady I

August 3 '81 My dear Sir I send you a letter for Summer Leisure column —say for the paper of to-morrow—the

Ontario, Canada —and one to John Burroughs, Esopus-on-Hudson, New York — I write in N Y, but the above is my

Sept: 9 '81 Dear Harry I keep about the same in health—am & have been very busy with the printing of my

here—have a good room & boarding house, the landlady is first rate & kind [to] me, (as often happens I find my

heart—you know the verse of the old song "A light heart & thin pair of breeches Goes through the world my

Howe, Captain Milton Haxtun, or Ed Dallin.

I believe I sent you a month ago a little paper with my late piece "Riddle Song."

enjoying it, even heat and all—I live on the banks of the Delaware river like—I wish you could know my

2316 Pine Street St Louis Oct 27 '79 My dear Mr Harris Thank you for the Magazine & for the newspaper

friend Ch: Johnson a few evenings since on the ferry—had quite a talk about you, &c— Nothing very new in my

great ship Minnesota , (big enough for a thousand people)—it was all very enjoyable—the officers all my

last letter in Tribune you will see a ¶ about the , my first visit) I got a letter from my sister yesterday

be having royal times there—Beatrice G[ilchrist] is here—she called on me here—Hank, you speak about my

you— let them read this letter if they care to —I shall probably be back last of next week—come up, my

things very easy—am as well as usual—(have some sort o' bad spells, still)—am all tann'd & red—wear my

I have an article A Memorandum at a Venture 5 or 6 pages signed by my name in the forthcoming June number

although hastily written & eligible to great additions, I consider a sort of rallying point or key note to my

some proof copies, & will send you two or three soon as I get them—(It is a paid for contribution, my

synopsis of it I can recall—quite certainly the same in amount as I told you while it was fresh in my

memory—the which with hasty scribblings on my relations with Emerson—I hope (working in as from yourself

even passionate well-wishing, which I felt then and feel to this hour the gratitude and reverence of my

And my arriere and citadel positions—such as I have indicated in my June North American Review memorandum

with Emerson, in this particular (it was not needed any where else) that goes on with many other of my

clerical blackguard, who has the audacity to accuse me of wilfully and consciously lying, and I shall do my

Marston is the target for you —If I learn more I will notify you— WW Have you seen my N A North American

O'Connor on May 20 approved of Whitman's "magnanimous" attitude toward Osgood & Co., he believed that "my

In his reply on May 20, O'Connor said that he had "focussed all my fire right upon Oliver Stevens, who

spell I must write to you—I don't have any such spells—& seems to me it is time you grew out of them—my

write you something cheerful—I have been in all day—quite a deep snow & the wind blowing—I here in my

The worry of Ruskin —he has at various times sent to me for six sets of my ($10, two Vol. volume ) centennial

Leaves of Grass is that they are too personal , too emotional, launched from the fires of myself , my

William, (as you seem to be destin'd destined to defend the banner) I say here once for all you have my

permission to make any extracts, at any time, should you so like from any of my letters— W W Walt Whitman

this—that just now the liver is the seat of, & concentrates, that markedly defective enervation which my

Specimen Days —drops into Rees Welsh's shoes—It is just as well—& is indeed to me no change—for really my

me"—supplements to Heywood's paper "the Word"—(I believe I will just enclose H's letter—slips & all)—My

16—(As to the vehement action of the Free religious & lover folk, in their conventions, papers &c in my

As I write, it is a cloudy moist warmish Sunday, 10¼ a. m. pleasant—quiet here—I am up in my 3d story

I am holding my own in the recovery of my half state of health—am contemplating some change of base,

—the more I think of it, the more I am convinced that is Comstock's game, (see my letter)" (Henry W.

On March 21, 1883, O'Connor explained to Burroughs that the project had been delayed because of "my cares

with the $10, hereby receipted — I appreciate the "Dogberry" article not only for its bearing on me & my

O'Connor wrote: "I have freely used the memoranda you sent, and got in as much of it as I could see my

Camden May 25 My dear friend Yours of 20th recd received —At this present writing I don't think the Tribune

Scribner article a year or two ago the extracted half a column of his condemnatory views & opinions on my

often presents & in all primal poetry & attempt at returning to Creation's birth-innocence—let alone my

technical esthetic & conventional & technical literary points applicable—But you know, dear friend, my

Philadelphia , July 6 1882 My dear friend If entirely convenient I wish you would find out whether there

O'Connor "judged it prudent to withhold my reply to 'Sigma.'"

could have wished—though as I get along with them, & versed, I am well satisfied with R W & Co. and my

My L of G plates having been sent on there from Rand & Avery's, Boston—& I shall begin on "Specimen Days

They are to publish L of G. same style as O[sgood]'s ed'n edition , same price, from my plates, & pay

me 35 cts cents a copy royalty—They are also to publish immediately my prose writings, Specimen Days

before him—perhaps has already decided—I keep well— W W The Boston Herald has articles strongly in my

round—over the ferry & up Market street, Phila Philadelphia , & stop occasionally at 23 south 9th st. where my

Now that my two books, prose and the poems, are out, I hardly know what to strike for—what to look forward

republished in Scotland & L. of G. is being translated in Germany — Tuesday night 10½— I am finishing my

letter—Never mind, Harry, dear—we'll make it all right when we meet—I have just written to your mother—Well my

Camden Dec: December 21 '82 My dear friends Yes I will give you the autograph name & perhaps a sentiment

I have been looking through the G[ood] G[ray] P[oet] as Dr B sent it in his copy, & it comes to my soul

Philadelphia ed'n edition L of G. will be ready ab't about 26th or 7th —(I like it best of all my ed'ns

unknown before our time) can take and adapt & shape for him or herself—I send you the "Critic" with my

same size, same sort of type, binding &c as L of G—same price—as I write, (Sunday afternoon) up in my

I will do my best to keep up the controversy."

Camden 1883 March 31 noon My dear friend I send you the second proofs—look over carefully for technicals

on L of G Leaves of Grass , & on certain primary & spinal literary laws—so assuring a pedestal for my

Despite Whitman's praise, O'Connor, on April 1, felt "dreadfully at the prospect your letter opens, of my

You left out my remarks on 'Children of Adam', I believe they were good but I acquiesce—your additions

credit than the Author—I am really surprised at the tact and judgement you have displayed in putting my

reprint "Encyclopædia Brittanica"—I send you by express a little package of books—the three Vols. of my

me—mainly because it satisfies me best, upon the whole —What you say about Mrs Spofford's say lubricates my

Camden June 13 '83 Evn'g Evening My dear friend The corrections you specified have been or will be made

Camden April 14 My dear friend I wish you would apply to the Librarian of Congress's office for the copyright

I am just starting for two or three days down in my Jersey woods retreat.

It is in the Critic of Sept. 27 —Dry and warm and often oppressive weather here—a long spell—My lameness

On February 10 he informed the poet that he was suffering from an "abcess in my neck," and asked for

old way—am pretty well, so far this winter—(they say I am fatter & more red-faced than ever)—I spent my

boys are all curious to know about you—all wish you luck, sincerely—Well good bye for the present, my