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He did not awake on my silent entrance.
Illustrated American) W. spoke of: "It is pretty good—has good points—but it emphasizes the rowdy: that is my
condition of the city, I do not think proper to separate myself from you, but shall remain and give my
1868 march 11 evening My dear Walt i have nothing to write this week i have got all out of news) but
Misses Granger" You remember their father and grandfather—celebrated Politicians—Francis Granger even in my
have any trouble—she would take a car in Philadelphia that comes to within abt a mile and a half of my
My employer is at home but a very small portion of his time.
& surgery, instead of being racked through the long journey up here—still may come in here—Mother, my
Walt Whitman, Esq., My dear Sir, I enclose you a map of Harleigh Cemetry, which I though I had sent before
My translation I hope to get finished by Spring.
My notion would be that we should sell an Edition there, if possible, printed here from our own plates
I enclose my ck. check for the amt. amount you ask for, $100. What a blank there in New England!
under the pines beside the little Ulster Co. lake— I know you love children and I wish I could show you my
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
just to let you know that I have not for goting forgotten you I am enjoying good health as well as my
much in it, the Italian papers I am sorry to say I cannot read (but glad to have them all the same for my
I thought that by this time I should have been able to say something definite about my jaunt east, but
Since I sent them I have written to you twice—& in my mind have had Australia & life in the bush & the
My hospital ministrations are very fascinating with all of their sadness.
lecture last Friday night —I was very much pleased— I pass the time very quietly—some evenings I spend in my
For the last two days I have felt a good deal better—My head is much better, & I feel more like myself
unknown before our time) can take and adapt & shape for him or herself—I send you the "Critic" with my
Charles my younger boy and all the child we have left lives at home with us though it seems somewhat
That is my arcanum!
I spoke in my usual strain of Salvini, and W. listened and questioned as if it were all new to him, evidently
I showed him a crayon of Morse my father had made for me.
"Why are you crying, my little son?" said he.
"My brother is sick," answered the child. "I have no father. He is dead."
"What is your name, my poor boy?" he asked. "Adam Covert," said the child.
Barcoure was a young man—like my hero.
Indeed it may be found, before the end of my story, that the right of main personage may lie between
advance any farther, it were well for me to remind the reader that I seek to paint life and men, in my
with countless cartridges of money coming up, and of endless change going down—to none of these were my
or forbidden; and, of all men in Philadelphia, he it was whom I most desired to see and to thank for my
In a strong round hand he inscribed my name in the volume we had discussed, gave me some precious pictures
Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen, For room to me stars kept aside in
All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me: Now I stand on this spot with my Soul
aplomb in the midst of irrational things,Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they,Finding my
less important than I thought,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Me wherever my
his introduction to the first German edition of Leaves in 1889, he claimed that "I did not only have my
own country in mind when composing my work.
these will ease my days here!"
group rose to leave, and W. said: "Hearing the little girl had come to see me, I put this big apple in my
People generally, I should judge, would regard it as a great piece of work: I have my doubts."
resolved to keep a sharp eye for him," W. said, "I have seen hints of him here and there which have raised my
I got my estimate on a thousand." W. then: "Well, I don't know but I'll have a thousand anyway."
My head is in a bad state tonight. I must not worry it with anything at all."
Told him of my postal from Yarros that the O'Connor piece would be published in the next number of Liberty
proved—North, South, East, West—all of them—the plain every-day men—I should still go a-begging for my
He had noticed the snarling of the dog on my entrance down stairs, and remarked: "There are good dogs
I suppose it is in the line of my piece on Hicks?"
And for my part I think he has gone about under fortunate conditions.
W. calls attention to "an English offer to publish my works abroad—for all England and for English readers
I feel better for my brush with the water." Not "a good day on the whole," however.
No, I thought Jennie was a sister—that was always my impression—but I may mistake the truth."
My suggestions. Harned wondering why no word from Bucke. No callers.
sickness but will be on hand at funeral please telegraph me arrangements.Francis H Williams New York 27 My
It goes against my heart to add anything to his unrest.
Said, "It may be with my head higher I will not have the hiccoughs so badly."
was the guild feeling—the newspaper guild there, especially the young fellows, were always loyally my
That would nowhere touch my purpose—the impulse by which I made the statement."
and let one line of my poem contradict another! Let the people sprawl with yearning aimless hands!
Let him who is without my poems be assas- sinated assassinated !
"There spake my brother; (Lord Bacon) There my father's grave Did utter forth a voice!"
Crescent: — In a former letter, I undertook to describe "life and things" in our far-famed Broadway; but my
By-the-way, passing there of late my attention has been drawn to one of the queerest pictures I ever
and let one line of my poems contra- dict contradict another!
Let him who is without my poems be assassinated!
in a few lines, I shall only say the espousing principle of those lines so gives breath of life to my
United States to give credit in compromising suits of this character—and I feel constrained to withhold my
From all my information I incline to think that Mr.
Whitman addresses the dead as "my soldiers" as if he himself embodies all America, thus expressing national
the ashes of the soldiers, whose dearness to him is signified by the repetition of the possessive "my
On the minus side, however, Pound long felt that Whitman, although he was "to my fatherland . . . what
My Brother's Keeper: James Joyce's Early Years. Ed. Richard Ellmann. New York: Viking, 1958.