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1868, Walt Whitman informed Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Proud Music of the Storm" was "put in type for my

431 Stevens St &c My dear friend, Enclosed I send you a piece printed here to give a true statement of

My friend, I must still put off for another letter some things I have had in my mind for months to say

Your letters past—what John Burroughs told me—(and your book)—have grafted you more on my good will &

—My book Leaves of Grass as now printed, is in its permanent form—My other Vol. of equal size Two Rivulets

, (i.e. of Real and Ideal) will comprise all my other writings, Prose & Verse , & is now being put into

I spend my evenings mostly in the office. Walt Whitman to Anson Ryder, Jr., [1868?]

Jack, you must write often as you can—anything from my loving boy will be welcome—you needn't be particular

Dear Jack, I send you my love. Walt Whitman.

well as usual—still work in this office—still board at the same house in M Street—& I suppose hold my

I will not write a long letter this time—but send you my love—& charge you to write more regularly in

branches, I came home from Washington and applied myself, as soon as possible, to school and to study…My

in the two lists of sheets on hand—yours had it that Sheet B, 2d consisted of only 225 sheets—while my

Bielby—will be in my room to-morrow, Wednesday, from 10 to 11 ½ forenoon—Will always be happy to have

Bielby, & Dear Doctor, I read the letter of Oct. 29, (full of good kindliness & sympathy—My general physique

still [ke]eps up, the battle with my [se]rious special cerebral ailment—& I think the physique will

yet carry the day—& that I shall come back to Washington, & see you all again—though my case is very

My dear friends, John R. & Rebecca B.

I wonder if you either of you have any idea how the otherwise monotony of my Camden existence has been

Without any thing very definite at this moment, my idea is of a poem, fitting in not unappropriately

All the pay I would want would be enough to pay my expenses, transportation &c., probably between 30

Drinkard—he rubs the handles over my leg & thigh, for perhaps twenty minutes—the shock is very perceptible—it

not sure) it is Jule Mason —it is quite interesting—I am going to work for a couple of hours now at my

days—I walk very clumsily yet, & do not try to get around by walking—but I think I am stronger now, & my

writing this over at the office—It is pleasant here, but cloudy & coolish—Mother, I suppose you got my

envelopes & I will send them—write whenever you can—I think I shall be able to soon give a good account of my

Washington: "walt if you think you cant get a house for us to live in dontdon't worry about me. i shall live my

Please unlock the case where my books & pamphlets are in Mr.

, but up—yours of March 5 rec'd and welcomed—O how I should like to see you, every day , dear Mitch—my

On March 5, 1875, Farwell, who owned a farm in Michigan, wrote: "Walt my dear old Friend how I would

To Burroughs on June 9, 1875, Dowden admitted that "my article on Victor Hugo is only partially satisfactory

My dear Rossetti, The bearer of this note is Col. Richard J.

I am perfectly satisfied with the selections from my poems—and feel grateful to you for your kindness

My address remains the same—Solicitor's Office, Treasury, here. W.W.

These must have been my Selections of American Poems in the series Moxon's Popular Poems. W.M.R."

Dear Sir, I am delighted to please you in so trifling a matter as signing the pictures for your—and my—English

. … My brother thinks (and I think so, too) that if you have not committed yourself, you could not do

The bad spells in my head continued at short intervals all through Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

ready to have them, and pretty sick and sore and bad, especially in head, confusing me, and affecting my

I have rewritten my Will, with some slight changes and additions, and placed it in the pocket of my trunk

here. … Ate my breakfast like a man this morning.

My eyes gave out before through. . . .

My improvement is not much in the head troubles, & hardly any in my left leg, but very perceptible in

my strength & vim generally— & my confidence remains (still unaffected in the main, by all the tediousness

took, at my own price at once & sent me the money)—They are in type, and I have read the proofs.

So they are off my mind.

Nelly, my dear, I received your welcome letter last evening. I am waiting for the photos of my St.

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

Camden Jan. 8, 1889 Tom, if you have it and you can, I wish you w'd fill my bottle again with that Sherry

and bladder troubles and fearful weakness of ten weeks ago—At present I am sitting by the oak fire in my

T. has been and is invaluable to me—my books are all printed etc.

names, sometimes Southerners, sometimes Western or other writers of only one or two pieces,) deserve in my

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

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

Dear friend I am still here neither worse nor better—but keeping in my sick room & in the big old chair—have

had something to see to in printing my books & it has probably done me more good than harm—& it all

everything—George & Harry, as far as you know—& how are you yourself—I am sitting here alone up in my

room, writing this—Mrs: Davis has been an hour or two ago out to the City Hall to pay my taxes (over

Camden July 12 '88 Thursday night after 9 It gets very tedious here—(I have now been in my room and bed

justify themselves—even for old habit, if nothing else— It was probably the sixth or seventh whack of my

war paralysis, and a pretty severe one—the doctors looked glum—Bucke I think saved my life as he happened

I am sitting up, had a fair night—rose late, have eaten my breakfast—have rec'd a good letter from O'C—nothing

Today my head thicks somewhat today. Love to you, dear friend.

He is my larger, greater, earlier self. No man alive seems quite so near to me" (280).

My dear friend O'Connor is dead. Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman to Thomas B. Harned, 10 May 1889

Am still laid up here by disablement and paralysis—am confined entirely to my room and mostly to my chair

My dear friend O'Connor is very ill at Washington.

substantial volume—not that I am overwhelmed or even entirely satisfied by it, but as I had not put my

and brain action (while easily tired and sore at the best) remain, the muscles, especially my right

fair—and the main elementary functions active at least half (or even plus half) to keep off so far my

bound edition of L. of G. including the "Sands at 70" and "Backward Glance," as a sort of commemorating my

Bucke —my dear friend O'Connor at Washington very ill yet—Wm.

Walsh on the Herald , and Julius Chambers World are friendly to me—I am sitting in my big rattan chair

favorable—I am sitting up an hour or so—Pretty critical a week or so ago—but Dr Bucke I consider saved my

life—I want to finish my little brochure "November Boughs" —it is ab't 1/3d done—Love to you, dear friend

My canary is singin' away as I write. Walt Whitman to Sidney H. Morse, 28 February 1888

advance— I am still living here & comfortable & in good spirits enough but probably near the end of my

Camden, N.J., March 7, 1889 I am still quite bodily helpless—imprison'd the same in my 2d story sick

probably will not any more—as I am ill from breaking out of old war-paralysis—I return the check & take my

Camden New Jersey Evn'g Jan: 5 '89 I want to send at once my brief thanks & appreciation of y'r notice

Send me a line acknowledging them, as I have a little uncertainty ab't my P.O. messenger.

do not deserve it—Send word to Mr Lovering, or show him this—I thank him deeply— I am living here in my

a hard job to get from one room to the next)—Am occupied in getting ready the copy of a little book—my

Boughs"—the pieces in prose and verse I have thrown out the last four years— Best love to you & to all my

, with check for Twenty Dollars, ($20) (herewith returned) was duly rec'd—Thank you most fervently, my

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey Jan: 25 '87—noon My dear friend Arthur The box (Oranges) has just

different from usual late years, but older, more broken & paralyzed—I have a little old cottage of my

Whitman is referring to his article "My Book and I," which was published in Lippincott's (January 1887

Nothing very different with me—I go out by my own volition not at all, as my power of walking &c. is

Review for November—(they pay quite well, & Redpath is very good to me) —Have a paper "My Book & I" in

Lippincott's for Jan. next —will send it you in printed slip—Shall probably get ready my little concluding

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

half-way to England—I have rec'd John Burroughs' new book —warm sunny day here—I am going out with my

falsehood —but I have several beloved & staunch friends here in America, men & women—I wish you to give my

here but I am getting along with it pretty well—H Gilchrist is still here—he is well—Still painting my

w'd be best—the one in y'r little L of G is bad—I go on to New York (if I can get there) to deliver my

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey U S America Sept: 11 '87 My dear Rhys I suppose you got the copy

Finally I give you the same privilege over the putting together of this, as my other volumes.

I shall expect £10:10s (same as my other vols) and also 10 copies of the "Vistas" bound in roan .

or your own judgment require— I will probably send a short MS to be added on p 199 or p 200 to bring my