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It makes him indignant.I mailed "Old Poets" to Morris, along with matter of my own.

"Not extra well," he replied to my query about his health, "only as well as the law allows."

Scrawled my name on a postal I had with me and insisted that he take it upstairs, which he did, Miss

And further, "And this follows your idea in the paper"—referring to one of my notes in the Conservator

says he had telegraph to you i wish i could know the thruth truth about her) it made me feel bad with my

Louis, March 30th 1873 My dear Walt Although I have written two or three letters to you, and Hattie one

But soon I shall be freer, and my first act shall be to collect the Oliver Stevens letters into a pamphlet

fight—I carry an umbrella, and if the sun gets to fall on me good & strong, any of the real hot days, my

very lame indeed i take the sleeping drought only once in a great while when i have extreme pains in my

well my dear walt Walt how are you this morning i would very much like to come in and see you and get

Jeff on February 8, 1873 that he was unable "to move from one room to the other" and so "can but send my

sill—every thing all right—had toast & a great mug of Whitman's chocolate & hot milk (excellent) for my

Oct 21-1886. 48 Rue d'Orsel Montmartre My dear Walt Whitman.

this note as a bad job, though I hope , in your kindliness of heart, you may see your way to grant my

me—I am only middling well, but go about—rheumatism not yet subdued—threatens to partially disable my

right—found Han better than she expected she says  I have been suffering since Friday with a "run-around" on my

I am asked to invite you to come & read on one of the days, & I add to this my own earnest request that

(My own books, poems & prose, have been a direct & indirect attempt at contribution.)

—1869 Septr September 23 My dear walt Walt i suppose you have arrived safe to your place of business

My friend is a great admirer of yours. him and I have lately been reading your "Leaves of Grass" and

. & it came into my mind that I must speak to you.

much with a "Compound Fracture" of the leg and after laying months and months had it amputated at last My

sweeping yet —I send it to you—I am alone—stir up the fire & put in some wood—as it grows colder—have my

Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my

am sitting here as usual in the big chair—suppose you get the Harper's Weekly I sent yesterday with my

From the two far corners of my office (where I am sitting) the 1st & 2d heads look down upon me grandly

You will feel bad about it I know and it is very natural you should still it is my decided conviction

ab't enough for some bills needing payment —O now I feel relieved— Nothing particularly different in my

November Boughs (1888) and Complete Poems & Prose: "I shall look upon them as the crown and summit of all my

Camden Tuesday Evn'g Nov: 6 '88 Seems curiously quiet for election day, & has been all the time here—At my

November 8, Whitman commented to Traubel: "I am coming to see that he is just the man I needed: he is my

Feb. 16th '87 My Dear Walt. This morning I had occasion to call at the house of a Mr.

Walt Whitman Esquire My Dear Sir: I take pleasure in soliciting your literary cooperation in an enterprise

I know you hate the idea of the use of a catheter but, my dear Walt, you will have to come to it and

of the O'C bit—& will give you the copy (a terrible mangle) if it is not destroy'd—the Critic prints my

others . . . want but I am glad to get along and be most well I can allways always find work again My

English—he pays well, when suited—he always paid me well & gave me lots of taffy besides—but balked at my

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey June 4 '81 My dear Mr Osgood Yours of yesterday rec'd received ,

And my interest in him was freshened only 3 months ago by an excellent article in the "Atlantic."

"Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and was reprinted in Good-Bye My

Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Thursday, September 12, 1889 and Saturday, September 14, 1889: "My

urged the warm bath, medicine, moderate diet (almost starvation diet is safest for him) he has answered my

My eye got open at last, but is still bleary and bad" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Wednesday

Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my

At this time, Whitman was planning to include an appendix to his Good-bye My Fancy that would include

W. remarked: "That good news about Sidney rejoices my soul."

I find it hard to steady my nerves for it—it means so much to me, will mean so much to you, means so

Then he reached his hand out and took my own, holding it: "We won't go on with it tonight—not tonight

pressing home . . . of all that could be said against that part (and a main part) in the construction of my

ever more complete or convincing, I could never hear the points better put—and then I felt down in my

soul the clear and unmistakable conviction to disobey all, and pursue my own way" (Whitman 281). 

My Burns is not of particular value. As I have said, it is not an old copy.

Amusedly said, "I tried to make my daughters see it the other night—read it to them—but no, they would

mechanic and with Star & Sons, although a western man.Now, at Chicago, I have just bought "Good-Bye My

My main impulse was to authoritatively clap it down forever that this was my love for William and by

But to my impression that Burroughs seemed to shrink from both Ingersoll's and O'Connor's "violence"

For two or three mornings past, on going as I usually do at daylight to take care of my cattle, and feed

them, I have missed something from the storehouse where I keep my grain and farming utensils.

"And lest I should oversleep myself," said the boy, "come to my window, which opens on the river, and

not Walt Whitman, might have written this: I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable, I sound my

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun; I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it

have to picture a man for whom I entertain a sincere respect, though I am not blind to his faults, as my

In order to place his personality before my readers without mistake, I will apply to him an epithet by

To drop the simile, however, I may describe my subject as a tall, muscular, robust man, with a voice

I give my hand and my heart to this work.”

friend and hear him say with tearful eyes, “You inspired me with hope when all was dark—you removed my

Whitman's "Going Somewhere" was written for her: "My science-friend, my noblest woman-friend, / (Now

," Whitman says farewell to his poetic project ("My songs cease, I abandon them") and announces that

:O how your fingers drowse me,Your breath falls around me like dew, your pulse lulls the tympans of my