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received the letter I wrote in answer to yours of date "a long time ago" ( very definite ) in reply to my

I have an impression that I can give a reason why you did not answer my last though I perhaps do you

My dear Heaven waitheth waiteth for mortals when earth is departed.

your book on the market advertised as the suppressed edition, and invite the authorities to dispute my

Morse, Quincy, Mass., the sculptor, whom you know, and who has long been one of my intimate friends.

He does not know of my design in this matter, but he will tell you that I am thoroughly reliable, and

Boston December 11, 1863 Walt Whitman— My dear sir— I went to the hospital in Pemberton Square yesterday

There seems a sort of hopelessness about this, and being unused to hospitals my feelings were far from

See Trowbridge, My Own Story, with recollections of noted persons (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903), 179

On October 18, 1863, Babbitt was depressed—"dark clouds seem to be lying in my pathway and I can not

remove them nor hide them from my mind"—until he mentioned his beloved, Nellie F.

My dear Sir: Your esteemed favor containing poems submitted for the Arena received;—and in reply would

Tennessee—and that the act on account of which he is prosecuted was done during the rebellion, while he was Captain

: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th instant, transmitting, for my

Sir: Referring to my letter addressed to you under date of the 3d instant, relative to the case of Charles

of the 5th instant, referred to the Attorney General by your endorsement of this date, has received my

I desire to add my own personal tribute to your worth and character as an officer of the United States—as

compromise in the cases against the New York Central Railroad Company, which have been brought informally to my

the Current, I do not feel at liberty to give further directions in this matter than are contained in my

in the Supreme Court, on error to the Circuit Court for your District, for the purpose of preparing my

the Pacific Railroad to pay interest on bonds, &c. has not been printed, and therefore it is not in my

Loring, Captain 3d Michigan Volunteers, on account of "two and three years Volunteers."

acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of your letter of the 25th inst. and its enclosures, in response to my

Newcomb, amounting to $101, for expenses incurred in securing the deposition of Captain James Speed,

Annual Report of your Department on the state of the finances for 1870, for which be pleased to accept my

the Government is in possession absolutely demand that the case shall be laid before a Grand Jury, my

Sir: I hereby return, with my approval of the adjudication of the Commissioner of the General Land Office

Sir: I hereby return, with my approval of the adjudication of the Commissioner of the General Land Office

Sir: I hereby return, with my approval of the adjudication of the Commissioner of the General Land Office

Sir: I hereby return, with my approval of the adjudication of the Commissioner of the General Land Office

I hope you will give yourself no uneasiness upon the matter of your retainer, and promise my personal

In reply I regret to have to say that my absence from the city at that time will be impracticable.

Since my dispatch of last night, I have seen the President, who directs me to say to you that your immediate

My dispatch of yesterday was written in the Supreme Court Room while I was engaged in the argument of

services rendered and expenses incurred by you while in the performance of official business under my

thanks—and if I may impose on your generosity I should be please pleased to have a lett letter for my

"I found this in my coat," he said. "I don't often put on this coat.

My names are Song, Love, Art. My poet, now unbar the door."

"Art's dead, Song cannot touch my hear, My once love's name I chant no more."

It puts me in mind of my visit to a church when I was a boy.

It was a Presbyterian church and the preacher was in a high box above my head.

BEHOLD this swarthy face, this unrefined face—these gray eyes, This beard—the white wool, unclipt upon my

neck, My brown hands, and the silent manner of me, with- out without charm; Yet comes one, a Manhattanese

BEHOLD this swarthy face—these gray eyes, This beard—the white wool, unclipt upon my neck, My brown hands

BEHOLD this swarthy face, these gray eyes, This beard, the white wool unclipt upon my neck, My brown

BEHOLD this swarthy face, these gray eyes, This beard, the white wool unclipt upon my neck, My brown

GuiyouHuang"Beginning My Studies" (1865)"Beginning My Studies" (1865)This poem first appeared in the

declaration not to become a systematic or aggressive student of philosophy.In theme and tone "Beginning My

"Beginning My Studies" (1865)

Beginning My Studies

Beginning My Studies. BEGINNING MY STUDIES.

BEGINNING my studies, the first step pleas'd me so much, The mere fact, consciousness—these forms—the

Beginning My Studies. BEGINNING MY STUDIES.

BEGINNING my studies the first step pleas'd me so much, The mere fact consciousness, these forms, the

Beginning My Studies. BEGINNING MY STUDIES.

BEGINNING my studies the first step pleas'd me so much, The mere fact consciousness, these forms, the

Beginning My Studies BEGINNING MY STUDIES.

BEGINNING my studies, the first step pleas'd me so much, The mere fact, consciousness—these forms—the

pleas'd me so much, I have never gone, and never wish'd to go, any farther, But stop and loiter all my

Please remember me to all the Staffords & give my especial love to Mrs. Stafford. Also to Mrs.

If one's patient has an ache or pain, the nurse whistles for the student (my whistle is 2).

One of my patients has empyema following pleurisy.

Several of my patients (I have all the very sick just now) require very careful watching.

Please give my love to Mrs. Whitman & remember me to Colonel Whitman.

If it were not for records accumulating mountain high I should have time to write to my friends.

Dear Mr Whitman Please pardon my intrusion but as I am a great lover of literature especially poetry,

Miller's muse If you will be so kind as to answer my critical questions I will thank you very much.

volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My

Dec. 2, 1866 My dear Whitman: I find your book and cordial letter, on returning home from a lecturing

I have had the first edition of your Leaves of Grass among my books, since its first appearance, and

frankly, that there are two things in it which I find nowhere else in literature, though I find them in my

There is not one word of your large and beautiful sympathy for men, which I cannot take into my own heart

I say these things, not in the way of praise, but because I know from my own experience that correct

Nov. 12, 1866 My dear Sir: I send to you by the same mail which takes this note, a copy of my last poem

The age is over-squeamish, and, for my part, I prefer the honest nude to the suggestive half-draped.

Bent to the very earth, here preceding what follows, Terrified with myself that I have dared to open my

whose echoes recoil upon me, I have not once had the least idea who or what I am, But that before all my

And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me!

put the entire essay together from segments of four previously published essays—"A Backward Glance on My

Own Road," "How 'Leaves of Grass' Was Made," "How I Made a Book," and "My Book and I"—"A Backward Glance

the essay, his approach: "I round and finish little, if anything; and could not, consistently with my

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

For America, autumn implies harvest, bounty, and growth; for Whitman, a time when "my soul is rapt and

originally appeared in the first edition of Leaves (1855): "There Was a Child Went Forth" and "Who Learns My

The oppression of my heart is not fitful and has no pangs; but a torpor like that of some stagnant pool

Around me are my brother men, merry and jovial.

—Ah, if the flesh could but act what my rational mind, in its moments of clear inspiration aspires to

STARTING NEWSPAPERS (ANOTHER ACCOUNT) Reminiscences —( From the "Camden Courier." )—As I sat taking my

As I cross'd leisurely for an hour in the pleasant night-scene, my young friend's words brought up quite

How it made my heart double-beat to see my piece on the pretty white paper, in nice type.

My first real venture was the "Long Islander," in my own beautiful town of Huntington, in 1839.

I enjoy'd my journey and Louisiana life much.