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My copies of the Eng[ineering] Record with article have not come—slips also not come—I hope they will

—& will ask you if convenient to jog the editor's memory—Horace, ab't the kind mention & offer ab't my

and will write you further—also ab't the sculptor—am unwell to–day— Walt Whitman Tho' I sit up & eat my

rations & have my right arm & (sort o') mentality I am paralyzed & utterly disabled here—cannot walk

across the room—my respects to Worthen —show him this— Walt Whitman to Horace Tarr, 13 December 1890

About what is called the Conscript Bill (an improper name) I hope and pray from the bottom of my heart

every man in the land—I would like to see the people embodied en-masse —I am very sure I shall see that my

name is in its place on the lists, and my body in the ranks, if they do it that way—for that will be

With my office-hunting, no special result yet. I cannot give up my Hospitals yet.

I never before had my feelings so thoroughly and (so far) permanently absorbed, to the very roots, as

London Ontario Canada August 21 '80 My dear Sir Some six months ago, you wrote me (I was then laid up

ill in St Louis) that you had purchased the electrotype plates of the 1861 Boston ed'n edition of my

train from here—shall get to Camden by or before 8—I am well as usual—nothing new— I have sent George my

John Gibson Wright rose from captain to colonel in the Fifty-first Regiment; he was appointed to the

According to Jeff's letter of May 14, 1865, George wanted an appointment in the regular army as captain

out—(George turned 'em out for impudence to mother)—I write every other day, & send papers & stuff—My

like to come on, according to your invitation, & pay you a good visit, but it is doubtful this time—My

But I should like to have a good long visit home, & be with mother—my getting leave does not work yet

as I hoped—but I expect to fix it somehow, & go home before very long—I am very well this winter—My

Dear sister Mat, & Hatty & California, love to you all—I am writing this at my desk, toward noon, very

The Hospitals still engross a large part of my time and feelings—only I don't remain so long and make

It comes from a bad cold, gathering I think in my head.

Things here are just the same with me, neither better nor worse—(I feel so engrossed with my soldiers

, I do not devote that attention to my office-hunting, which is needed for success.)

Jeff, you must give my best respects to Mr. and Mrs.

it over & over again —it is very, very good—so much about your dear mother , it brought the tears to my

eyes, & I had to stop many times—my dear, dear Sister Martha , she must have suffered so much, & to

got just well enough to go out, in a carriage, but, dear Hattie, I am in a miserable condition, as to my

power of moving—The doctor says I shall get well, but it is very, very slow and irksome—my mind is clear

Louis are addressed wrong)—My right address is Walt Whitman Solicitor's office Treasury, Washington,

Brooklyn July 9 1864 My dear friend I rec'd the letters this afternoon, two in the envelope with a note

I had grown worse, quite a good deal, & I was about making up my mind that I would have to stand a good

seige—but yesterday the current changed, & I felt better all day, & in the afternoon went out riding with my

The doctor to-day tells me my throat is markedly better—In my letter to William I told him I had rec'd

can make them out—As to me, I still believe in Grant, & that we shall get Richmond—we have heard from my

If so say I sent my best love, not forgetting little Jennie.

received—I have not heard from her since— I am pretty well, perhaps not so unconsciously hearty as before my

sickness—We are deprest in spirits home here about my brother George, (2d div 9th Corps)—if not killed

, he is a prisoner—he was in the engagement of Sept 30 on the extreme left.31 My book is not yet being

If you write to William I wish you to enclose him this letter—I wish him to receive again my faithful

I am having good times here, rather quiet—My book is being printed—gets along rather slowly.

almost every afternoon—then sometimes a sail on the river or bay—so you see I am enjoying myself in my

way—with three or four hours work every day reading my proofs, &c— Andy, I suppose you are all getting

along as usual—I enclose a line to Mat, which please give him—I send my love to you, Frank, Mat & Lewis

up)—I am well—To-day for a change it is raining—but altogether I have enjoyed fine June weather for my

trip—Will finish my letter in New York— 1309 Fifth av. near 86th St June 26—p m Came away from Esopus

two "Leaves" in public —pleasant ride there & back in carriage—was paid—Love to dear J[essie] —O how my

have seen John Burroughs & he wants me to go up there to Esopus, but I don't think I shall go —I find my

the time except at mid-day— I suppose Hattie and Jessie are there, all right —Dear girls, I send you my

home & see you—I will finish to-night— Sunday 3½ p m West Point 50 miles above on the Hudson I finish my

with the Park opposite like a dense woods—is pleasant, but cloudy & almost cold to-day—(if I had not my

but no bother & no whimpering or quarreling at all under any circumstances—they form a great part of my

Camden April 13 12:40 P M Am middling well—go this afternoon to New York, to deliver my lecture commemorative

is important, I will put down the lap tablet on which I am writing—& finish afterwards— Well I had my

& performance—was used tip top—Mrs Davis went with me—got back here ab't sunset thro' a snow storm—My

My friend seems to speak in a very recommendatory manner of D.

But I would like to have a sample page in bourgeois too for my calculations —I hope it will be new type—The

typographical show of my poems—how they shall show (negatively as well as absolutely) on the black &

white page—is always in my idea in making them—I am printer enough for that— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman

fullest satisfaction (if not already—which I thought the case—distinctly, amply, legally secured by my

correspondence between us ante )—But the copyright of Leaves of Grass must remain absolutely & solely in my

I want to say over again that while I reserve to the fullest degree all my own rights & the means to

maintain them, you are to be, & I hereby make & confirm you, the sole issuers and publishers of my completed

strenuously & loyally in the enterprise—& to add that I do not fix any term or limit of years, because it is my

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

About the plate my impression still is that in the hands of a good expert steel plate printer it will

My notion is against getting up any further portrait (this steel plate will have to permanently continue

carefully done , & with good ink)—& the binding, color, style, (strong, plain, unexpensive inexpensive , is my

My dear friend, I suppose you saw my letter to William O'Connor, a week since, with notice of my safe

Give my best respects to Mrs.

There is nothing specially new or important among my folks—they all wish me to give their best regards

Botta, My dear Madam, In answer to your request of some days since, I send you the MS. of a small piece

[My ambition is] to give something to our literature which will be our own; with neither foreign spirit

.— My stories, I believe, have been pretty popular, and extracted liberally.

morning (through Gilder ) a check from Andrew Carnegie for $350 for his box last Thursday night—making my

431 Stevens st Camden New Jersey Sunday afternoon Dec 31 '76 My dear Johnston Supposing you may receive

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

—McKay, my Phila: publisher, has just been over—paid me $77 for royalties for the last eight months—I

paid the Camden taxes on my shanty to-day $26 —The photos come from Cox all right, & I sign & return

—When you come again, don't forget to bring my Stedman book American Poets —Love to Alma and Al and all

Johnston on September 1, 1887, "He advertises . . . to sell my photo, with autograph.

Browning has just been here & says you wish something more specific & defined in my relations and pay

, wh' I enclose, with slips—Send to Dr Bucke, after reading—As I write, I am sitting down stairs in my

big arm chair—My sister Lou (George's wife) has just been here—It looks like such a fine & bright weather

I shall try to get out in my rig.

In my teaching and lecturing I find no difficulty in getting Converts to the new doctrine and find your

I believe gets to the office—I write a little—short bits, to order mostly—spend the time seated in my

Camden Dec: 5 '90 My dear JMS I like y'r plan & feel greatly complimented by it & hope it will be carried

I send you herewith the MS of personal article (must not have my name signed) Of course if you print

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey June 20 '87 Thank you my friend for the delicious chocolate—I have

it for my breakfast frequently, & enjoy it—Please accept a copy of my little book "Specimen Days" London

March 1, 1882, in which he quoted Swinburne's praise of Whitman: "I have by no manner of means relaxed my

Jersey U S America— Dec: 20 1881 Dear Sir Your letter asking definite endorsement to a translation of my

And as my dearest dream is for an internationality of poems and poets binding the lands of the earth

closer than all treaties or diplomacy—As the purpose beneath the rest in my book is such hearty comradeship

I have had a slight stroke of paralysis, on my left side, and especially the leg—occurred Thursday night

last, & I have been laid up since—I am writing this in my room, 535 15th st as I am not able to get

out at present—but the Doctor gives me good hopes of being out and at my work in a few days—He says it

days, but am to-day eating better—I wrote to Mat early last week— Later —I have been sitting up eating my

June 29 My dear friends John and 'Sula Burroughs, I am here again in Camden, stopping awhile, with the

there—staid about a couple of weeks—obtained two months leave of absence, & (after almost making up my

been for about two weeks—(I think comparatively better the last two days)—occupying the rooms in which my

in life & heart left by the death of my mother is what will never to me be filled— I am comfortably

hour or two every day, while I am in this condition—The last nine or ten days in Washington, I left my

Havn't Haven't heard from you in a long time—My splurge on the Death of Lincoln is all ready to be splurged—I

Camden New Jersey March 27 p m My dear friend I could not conveniently come to the West Phil: Depot—I

nice dinner party, all men, artists, &c, Horace Furness, (a good fellow)—his brother Frank, architect —my

Jersey Dec: 10 '81 Dear Sirs Please send me here by express fifteen free copies Leaves of Grass for my

sheets are sent)— Then another thing: I have a few copies remaining (between one & two hundred sets) of my

mostly in England —which I should like to sell whenever applied to—price $10— You have no objections to my

good than harm to it—but is not of much importance any how—only (to me) as putting a few dollars in my

were an hour late,)—but the city looked bright & all alive, & I felt as fresh as a lark— I am well, my

Dear mother , I have come over this afternoon to the office, & am now writing this at my desk.

good spirits—am pleased to feel as well as I do, & get along as well as I do—Mother, I do not show my

sickness in my looks, in flesh or face, except very little perhaps— I will finish to–morrow or next

door, & am brought back there again—It has been a beautiful day—I am now sitting in my room, by the

to-day—I have not sent the Graphics containing my pieces as I have not had but one copy, & sometimes

Singing Thrush" (later titled "Wandering at Morn") on March 15, 1873; "Spain" on March 24, 1873; "Sea Captains

about the 1st of next month—I am getting along favorably, they all say, but have frequent distress in my

head, & my leg is clumsy as ever—I am writing this in the office at my desk—I send some papers to-day

May 9, 1873, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman said: "walter dontdon't send any more papers as i cant read. my

letter Tuesday—I am about the same—I have not gone over to the office to-day, & am writing this in my

room—mother, I send only $15 in this—will send the other 5 in my next—Write and send me word, soon as

ups and downs—but steadily advance, quite certain, though very slowly—I seem to have a bad cold in my

Dearest Mother , I am sitting in my room waiting for the doctor—Mother, you are in my mind most of the

what has kept me up, & is bringing me through—I think I am still on the gain, though it is very slow—my

it—& settle up there—he does better there—but he was doing well enough here, & was very comfortable—My

head troubles me to-day, but I am over here at my desk, at office—Mother, if convenient write me a line

About May 17, 1873, Louisa wrote: "my dearly beloved walter thank god i feel better this morning" (The

my dear beloved walter."

"On taking my seat among them, I noticed a curious thumping at intervals that made the floor vibrate

beneath my feet.

I was so absorbed in my own grief that at first I was hardly conscious of it.

quite good spells—but am not feeling well just now—have got over to the office, & am now sitting at my

hear of many cases, some good, some unfavorable— As to myself, I do not lose faith for a moment, in my

—I am feeling better—my head is some easier—Love to you, dear mama, & all— Walt.

long—to-day I have been sadly pestered with visitors—every thing goes well with me, except the slowness of my

to-day—I feel so bad about Mat—I am still improving—but slowly though I realize some improvement every day—my

journey— Mother, it is kind of company to write to you—it is very lonesome to sit here all the evening in my

room—about 9 Charles Eldridge comes in & assists me to soak my feet in hot water, & then I turn in—(

I have my trowsers trousers on this evening, first time in 3 weeks)— Friday noon Feb. 14 Mother, I am

feeble, and have distress in the head—these are the worst features—but am gradually regaining the use of my

written a short letter to Hannah , & also one to Jeff —which they must have rec'd by this time— I keep up my