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quite early in the year and I do not know but this is soon enough—all well and all goes well I send you my
1870 July 20 My dear Walt i got your letter yesterday but the paper you spoke of i havent haven't received
| May 1870 march March 23 My dear walt Walt i have just got your letter with the money in it i received
1865 November 14 tuesday Tuesday noon Nv Nov 14 My dear Walt i have waited and waited to hear from you
He might come on himse lf Dear, trusty friend of ours dear Walt—I cannot fully expres s my gratitude
I sleep here in the building (I have a very good room) and take my meals at a Boarding house I pay 6
I have connected my stove with hers in bedroom, by adding more pipe and elbow —at a cost of 1 doll ar
two weeks ago it took ago a new bridge as easily as I am flowing a feather away with the breath of my
periodicals, and I would not myself encroach on the space devoted to the work of other contributors; but my
I send my best love R M Bucke Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 15 December 1888
I shall have to get at my lectures on "mental diseases" for the students at medical college here as soon
Camden Jan: 22 '89 Still keep up & read & write ab't the same—but remain cribb'd in my room.
They have all an intense (sometimes most painfull) interest to me—but whether cheering or the reverse my
inclusive —there will be ab't 20 more—I am more comfortable than you may suppose Sunset Have had & enjoyed my
trust you are (even if "very very slowly") gaining and am glad to have you say that you believe in my
I hope you may stay clear of it with all my heart.
Nothing settled yet about my visit East but hope to leave (as mentioned before) about 12 th May.
I am, my dear friend, Affectionately yours RM Bucke Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 24 August
I am struggling with my report and getting on slowly—it will be much longer than usual—a lot about alcohol
Gurd (and my boys) home this evening—guess we shall be able to move ahead with meter now.
Yes, as you imagine I am indeed up to my eyes in work but one thing I am glad of—I have got over the
I am trying to get on with my annual report but it moves slowly—however I have time and I shall no doubt
My health is some better than it was when I left the Hospital, but I am not well by a good deal and I
Dear Friend I take this time to write to you to let you know how I am I am well at presant my wound is
"My 'Leaves of Grass,'" said the old gentleman, "I will publish as I wrote it, minor revisions excepted
Ferry, I dashed off the enclosed Sonnet, which I take the liberty of send to you, the rather to gratify my
Johnsons at Babylon L I, & thinks of going on to see Herbert Gilchrist at Centreport—Still bother'd with my
novem November 16 My dear Walt i have got your letter this morning and likewise one from george he dident
febuary February 23 My dear walt i have just got your letter and was glad to hear from you and received
Jeff Whitman wrote that Mason "used to be in my party on the Water Works" (see his February 10, 1863
Maybe while there are so many with you I had better sleep over in Camden, & Herby & Mr Burroughs take my
Camden March 16 '83 Noon My dear friend Yours of 14th & proofs of 1883 Letter rec'd received —All y'r
About half of my folk are gone and going to Sarnia on a visit—Clare & Ina went yesterday, Mrs B.
Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake! Far-swooping elbowed earth!
the wounded person, My hurt turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.
Heat and smoke I inspired…I heard the yelling shouts of my comrades, I heard the distant click of their
I lie in the night air in my red shirt…the pervading hush is for my sake, Painless after all I lie, exhausted
"I, too, am not a bit tamed…I, too, am untransla- table untranslatable ; I sound my barbaric yawp over
I tell you it's an impossibility to me; why, my whole income from my books during a recent half-year
its eight periods of growth, "hitches," he calls them, he completes them with the annex, "Good-bye my
Whispers of Heavenly Death" cannot be an irreverent person; the impassioned "prayer"— "That Thou, O God, my
For that, O God, be it my latest word, here on my knees, Old, poor, and paralyzed, I thank Thee....
When this is commented upon he laughingly says, "Oh, yes, my friends often tell me there is a book called
because, being a woman, and having read the uncharitable and bitter attacks upon the book, I wish to give my
There are few poems which I can read with so intense a thrill of exultation at the greatness of my destiny
A very different book is the latest collection of the poems of Walt Whitman, entitled "Good-bye, My Fancy
potentates and powers, might well be dropped in oblivion by America—but never that if I could have my
For America, autumn implies harvest, bounty, and growth; for Whitman, a time when "my soul is rapt and
originally appeared in the first edition of Leaves (1855): "There Was a Child Went Forth" and "Who Learns My
Oldach Binder, Phila:" he added Please send this up to the binders (men or women) who are working on my
book—& I herewith send them my best respects.
Evidently recognized my step, for no sooner than had I opened the door but he exclaimed—"Ah!
Mead was satisfied wih my suggestion of the Gutekunst portrait. Wished also a picture of the house.
But in reply to my question, without at all enlarging, he said his condition was "only so-so."
use Carpenter's previous letter (to W.) except passage giving amount of draft, in the little book.To my
If my article gave such an impression, it was one not intended.
Tell him I don't want him to discuss my Philadelphia and Camden friends."
I was just on my way home from work.
Referred to my father's big charcoal Whitman.
Here in my own case I go even to the extreme of hesitation, so to call it but I suppose I am saved by
paragraphs—then said: "I felt as I heard you read along that there was something that gibed perfectly with my
I read my mail while there—letters from Hallam Tennyson, Bucke, Wallace, Mary Ashley. W.'
On my "good-bye" I kissed him and stroked his head. "God bless you!" That and I left.10:18 P.M.
And at my statement—"That is right, I am glad you said it that way," adding, "There are stories nowadays
I told him in my last letter that he would undoubtedly get a copy next week." "So he will!
Text very kindly to W. but doleful.W. on bed on my entrance. Extended his hand. "Here again?
"My God!" he exclaimed. "I feel as if to burst!" I shook hands with him.
I described Cooper's early influence over my father: that Cooper's books had much to do with my father's
Yes, my intention is to be present and I shall be unless something "unforseen and unprovided for" occurs
At my remark W. asked to have the door opened.
pencil and on his knee wrote the following: Mickle St CamdenJan: 9 '90Dear J BThis will be given you by my
Mary Davis has been making them today—and they take my time—and we like to share a good thing when we
PRIVATE [London, Ont.,] 29 Jan [18]90 My dear HoraceYou know that for a long time I have thought (and
or if not surely you could run the subsidy up to this amount—I would willingly make my $3. a month $5