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Said he had heard Doctor Garrison was better: "I was glad, too, to hear that—he has always been my friend
Majestic)—we shall all feel that we are receiving an old & dear friend.I have not seen Wallace since my
After my bath, I sat a long while here, naked, not a stitch on, fanning myself—but even that was only
"No, I feel I have reached my finale. What more needs be said?"
President —That is my last name.
28 Feb. 1873 Saturday noon My dear dear walt Walt i have just got your letter the money came all safe
My dear Walt i received your letter yesterday we got the papers you send walter Walter dear i am glad
get it every saturday Saturday ) you must tell me when you write how many valentines you got good by my
My publishers still stick to me for a book & say that if I am not content with the usual 10 per cent,
enclose you a letter I have written for the papers —George, Harry & Mont, it will give you some idea of my
This is my excuse for profering proffering this request and I entertain the hope that you will graciously
was sick, and when I was taken sick, she very kindly stayed with us, and has taken all the care off my
I am still struggling along, striving to say something which, if I can say it to my mind, will be useful—will
about aug. 1870 My dear walt Walt i received your letter yesterday i was very anxious to hear from you
But I must not make my letter longer—I shall look forward to seeing you soon, and I hope you will be
My own sympathy (far unlike that of most Englishmen) was very strongly with the Commune—i.e. with extreme
Will you give my love to Mrs. Davis?
recall'd by O'C— I am sitting here as usual (the same old story)—have a good oak-wood fire—am ab't to have my
well to-day—weather heavy, damp, cloudy to-day—have been feasting on strawberries (a big basket f'm my
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
He work'd worked at my father's, and had done so for two years.
I would not have put it a cent below $10. if I had had my way.
All goes well, I am hearty and having a good time but shall be glad to get back and see my American &
Words" has got a decidedly better turn to it than the big Ill: one—a gloomy blue week here—death of my
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
Whitman recited "John Anderson, my Jo, John."
—still have my massage soon after 9 pm—still take two meals every day eat but no gt appetite—bowel movement
The preface was included in Good-Bye My Fancy (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891), 51–53.
will get a nice black silk) i gess guess mrs price is like many others short of funds sometime walter my
is covered with snow here, looks wintry enough—cold weather, but somehow I like it—I have no fire in my
sun—I have got along pretty well, but it has been awful hot—& continues so, though as I write here by my
O truth of things, I am determined to press my way toward you; Sound your voice!
I exclude you; Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you, and the leaves to rustle for you, do my
Two prose pieces which appeared there under the titles "My Book and I" and "How I made a Book" are now
He said once to my father, 'They talk of the devil—I tell thee, Walter, there is no worse devil than
Bent to the very earth, here preceding what follows, Terrified with myself that I have dared to open my
echoes re- coil recoil upon me, I have not once had the least idea who or what I am, But that before all my
Thee, seated coil'd in evil times, my Country, with craft and black dismay—with every meanness, treason
—are but parts of the Venture which my Poems entirely are. (11) It is this type of indirection that
Specimen Days (1882), November Boughs (1888), and Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) are important Whitman sources
Whitman often commented upon the genius of Booth and called him "one of the grandest revelations of my
Fittingly, 1892, the year of Whitman's death, witnessed the poem "Good-Bye my Fancy!
Against a backdrop of fluctuation, a continuity in Whitman's thought emerges, and with "Good-Bye my Fancy
I don't know what it was—whether the money, or my own condition, that inspired me.
Had I the way, I should take my house and lump it down there: or if an opportunity came to exchange it—who
I had in my hands a package of his circulars, from Ferguson. "What's that?" he asked.
And on my rendering over, said: "It looks well—and on good paper, too!"—so was quite satisfied.
And then, "Good night, my dear! Good night, Horace!"
(When she had started up obedient to my summons, he had called from his seat, "Come up, Anne!
Called my attention to last volume of Stedman's book.
Book just come today—still mostly uncut.Had written notes for my New England Magazine article today.
about "Demeter," and he answered: "It is gone already—Tom was in today and took it along—took it at my
"But the points that took my time, mainly, were in debates on infant damnation, heathen damnation: it
love—royal in his ways, offerings—as if he was always addressing you—take this pearl, take this gem, take my
horse and carriage—use them—take house, lands—take, take—my best linen, the whole entourage is yours—take
I have been trying, since my return to Germany, to find out that essay you allude to in the N.A.
My 'Encheiridion' ought to be out very soon as I have sent in the last proof sheets.
only out of the inimitable poem of the wo- man woman , can come the poems of man—(only thence have my
arrive, or pass'd on farther than those of the earth, I henceforth no more ignore them, than I ignore my
to be found in these prurient pages and how any respectable House could publish the volume is beyond my
That he acted at the instance of the United States, however, is sufficient to authorize my consent to
Muir, so reported to this office, and the Acting Attorney General, case of David Muir, Illinois in my
Superintendent of Mail Depredations, Post Office Department, enclosing for my information copies of correspondence
Department, enclosing for my information copies of correspondence in relation to James Gilmore, an escaped
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Boston: Beacon, 1985.Chase, Richard.
After the Supper and Talk" can be compared to two other farewell poems, "Good-Bye my Fancy!
letters to Brown say the sight of Brown's face was "welcomer than all," and he refers to Brown as "my