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6 9 june 8 My dear walt i got your letter and you may expect i was glad enoughf enough to hear you was
stopping at one of the hospitals last night Miss Lowe just from Boston came to me & handed the letters—My
I might have added to my list of great Holland–born men Beethoven. He was Van Beethoven.
Engine House & Depot, five engines burnt, bad luck— —Van, show this letter to your father and mother—my
cast and it was decided in favor of Walter Whitman after Walt Whitman, America's Poet I have had on my
July 8th 1888 My dear Walt; I have followed your illness with breathless concern—that is, what I could
Arthur Holland, one of the family who were so very friendly to me & made my stay so pleasant both in
about end March 1866 My dear Walt i thought i would write a line as i wanted to send hans letter i was
again & have some good times—but for all that it is best for you to be prepared for something different—my
chance of enlisting purchasers at such high prices much diminished, I shd should already have drawn up my
My dear Sir. There lies before me, as I write, a copy of "Brother Johnathan" Vol 1.
Of course it has all been better said, but I must have my chance just the same.
A very few days will wind up my report and then I should be comparatively free.
My visit East is likely to be delayed some weeks.
— Harpers Monthly man rejects my poem —says it is too much an improvasition —An Englishman (in an eulogism
Whitman enclosed a reprint of "My 71st Year" with corrections (Feinberg).
It, to my mind, comes far short of what such a man ought to have written on such a subject.
It was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (see Prose Works 1892, Volume 2: Collect and Other Prose, ed.
there & show myself—if I do that) is smoothly moving—It is now noon & after, & I thanks to Ed have had my
. | May 20 | 8 PM | 89; London | AM | MY 22 | 89 | Canada.
So you see 'tout va bien" with my collection which bids fair to be one day the envy of millionaires.
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
I have gladly accepted as I am most anxious to have my impressions as to the attitude of the Smiths towards
My friend, you must accept the men's thanks, through me.
time—I am feeling very well—no trouble in the head, nor any thing, so far—I get along very well in my
I am enjoying my visit here and am feeling first class—but I shall not be glad to get back to America
Sent Rees Welsh & Co June 20 '82 Let me make my propositions as plainly as possible.
Sidney Morse is in Chicago—I remain in fair spirits & comfortable—am just going to have my dinner (I
"My friend." Spoke of Swinburne & Tennyson. Most kind. Head from behind like Darwin. Bought a book.
And when I had given him my good report: "How good for her—for Tom—for us!
The man seemed to have caught on to my idea almost before I expressed it: the green ends, the tipping
I said: "My heart warms to him."
monument idea on the whole a good one—that it might mean something in the friendship of nations: all that: my
argument of the earth," a fragmentary but certain knowledge: "that the spirit of God is the brother of my
own," "that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers," "that
trance-like state similar to that he entered in section 5: "Wrench'd and sweaty—calm and cool then my
W. replied: "Considering the condition of the rest of my body the immunity enjoyed by my topknot is marvellous—even
W. said: "It is one of the admonitions of my Doctor not to see people—not to talk: but then I am a disobedient
W. gave me what he called "another tidbit" for my "archeeves."
In his manuscript notebooks he wrote of "the chanted Hymn whose tremendous sentiment shall uncage in my
or 'Lucrezia,' and Auber's 'Massaniello,' or Rossini's 'William Tell' and 'Gazza Ladra,' were among my
Whitman commented on the singing of this "strangely overpraised woman," writing that she "never touched my
days in Specimen Days and in an essay, "The Old Bowery," collected in the prose section of Good-Bye My
I initiated you into Milton nearly thirty years ago, my dear Seward; and I rejoice to find that you still
Often—often—often, my dear sir. VOL.
originality is the difference between the Bible and Paradise Lost. 766 Seldom—seldom—seldom if ever, my
nations in Asia or Africa not Christian, would see any great point in his poem, if read to th It is, my
Edition This little Treatise is extracted from a more extensive work, undertaken without consulting my
—In this research it will be my constant endeavor to ally that which the right perm its , with that which
—When a robber surprises me in a forest, I must surrender my purse to force,—but when I can regain it
—My first question returns. Chapter 4th.
not live another day; I cannot can not rest, O God — eat Or drink or sleep, till I put forth myself, My
West, where "In a far-away faraway northern county, in the placid, pas- toral pastoral region, Lives my
farmer-friend farmer friend , the theme of my recitative, a famous Tamer of Oxen ." : This is a worthy
One of the great pleasures of my time in graduate school was acquiring, piece by piece, the entire 24
for those books—in the years just before the creation of the World Wide Web—gave me a reason to leave my
still had many secondhand bookstores, and sometimes travel to other cities in the hope of completing my
"But give my love to all the ferry boys—to Ed Lindell, to Tommy—Tommy Logan—to Foxy, to Eugene Crosby
was not relieved, he said "I don't dare to say I am, for fear I may fall back again—get shame of all my
All the time during the rest of my stay he had the soap at his nose.
"I see no reason to change my Sunday's opinion." Bucke not arrived yet.
clean the bed and he urged them to "hurry," saying at one moment, "Look out, Warrie, you'll knock over my
Bucke insisting, "Didn't I write that I delivered my last lecture Saturday and was likely to drop down
railroads— The Mannahatta that's it Mannahatta —the mast‑hemmed—the egg in the nest of the beautiful bays— my
through swamps warm land,—sunny land, the fiery land, the rich‑blooded land, in hot quick‑mettled land, my
Song Always the South, the Dear to me the sunny land, sweet land, the silvery land my land, wild generous
reason I like to drive a stage-coach on Broadway, I feel that the strength of the horses passes into my
veins, my muscles, and after that I can give strength to my poetry."
There is something in my nature furtive like an old hen!
of my real life, Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirection I seek for my own use
I wish to see my benefactor, & have felt much like striking my tasks, & visiting New York to pay my respects
Among the pilots are some of my particular friends—when I see them up in the pilot house on my way to
, and exemplify it," was my candid response.
If your Department, however, should not regard it proper to pay this judgment, I should deem it my duty
Justice of a Territory to leave his official post of duty to attend to them at Washington, I shall give my
letter acknowledged & answered. to the property of patentees, and you add to that information that my
" poem, which acquired its present title in 1867, was originally called by its first line, "City of my
(An added word yet to my song, far Discoverer, as ne'er before sent back to son of earth— If still thou
I got my ticket for Philadelphia. Back to tea and to the dance.
s "joy," as he said, "partly to my risk."
My father translated me Sarrazin's letter, which I now read to W., who was much charmed with it, asked
When I asked him if he was on his way home—he said laughing—"I am on my way to the river—which is as
And to my opinion that the feeling was prevalent among private Democrats, whatever of public I did not
He was very ready to listen to some of my objections, and deferred to them.
On my way from Philadelphia and stopped in for 15 minutes.