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At present my brain is just mud—I have a heap of letters unanswered.

I am at work on my Tribune letter, which I hope will prove satisfactory.

consideration is swallowed up in the consciousness that you like what I have written—that you feel that my

My principal corrections—the ones I feel specially desirous to have made are as follows: I.

Bucke sent me my foot-note, and I have made the change (Page 100.).

to think of anything—in fact, I have been in too much trouble to think effectually—that is to give my

Another on page 74 (very bad) where my sturdy "I vaunt it and I stand by it," is spoiled by being rendered

My dear Walt: I snatch five minutes from writing up the wrecks.

Yet in my heart I hold and love him for aye.

For my own part, it (the Republican article) made me marvel.

I cannot make my belief square with such a notion. Au revoir .

I am up to my ears in office work, wretchedly unwell, and wish I could be away.

My dear Mr.

Whitman I am trying my best to make up for the loss of my collection of Autographs a year or two since

me with yours and anything you can spare either Literary, Musical or dramatic and confer a favour on My

My address in Brooklyn is 132 Pacific St. I shall be here all this week.

weeks have elapsed since the commission of an outrage, to which I have not till now been able to give my

Nothing deepens my respect for the beautiful intellect of the scholar Alcott, like the bold sentence

Adventures of this kind are frequent, and "I took a fancy to you," or "You look like one of my style,

I weigh my words and have considered well.

He is of my own party; and my politics have been from my youth essentially the same as his own.

Oh, my God! my God!"

Oh, my divine Redeemer! Oh, my Friend, my Saviour!"

own husband, my first, my only love, my love forever!

"O my God—my boy George!"

boy, my George; my saved and ransomed George; my son, my son!

I got your letter of last May, but have not been well able to write with my half-paralyzed hands and

My little book overwhelmed me with letters, and I have felt stung not to be able to answer many of them

My faith is not shaken. Life seems to have almost stopped still with me.

In this affair of the clerkship, my friend Mr. Stedman has already printed his disclaimer.

Three months later, in a pamphlet, I did my best to secure for the infamy of Mr.

But it is not my fault if the last fortnight's journals reaching Mr.

My regard for the work antedates by several years my acquaintance with the author, and no one can justly

It was morning in the world with me when I first read those mighty pages, and felt to my imnest soul

the details of an outrage so sigual in its character and so sinister in its bearings as to become, in my

I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is

I wish to see my benefactor, and have felt much like striking my tasks and visiting New-York to pay you

my respects.

well fortified does he think himself in his cobweb Gibraltar, that he blandly imagines the force of my

passionate, well-wishing, which I felt then, and feel to this hour, the gratitude and reverence of my

And my arriere and citadel positions—such as I have indicated in my June North American Review memorandum—were

as a statement “of all that could be said against that part (and a main part) in the construction of my

On the contrary, without waiting to understand what he has read, he talks about my letter to you being

I wished I was where I could have a hand in fixing up something for my old comrade, but here we cannot

verry disagreeable for all that are on Picket. but I shall have to bring this to a close by Sending my

Made Captain Aug. 1864—got a family in Buffalo" (Manuscripts of Walt Whitman in the Collection of American

enrolled as first sergeant of Company F (though by the time of his imprisonment he had been promoted to captain

Since my return to the regiment we have been very buisy, and we still have a great deal to do in the

The next day after my return we received orders to be ready to move at a moments notice which we did

about noon the Same day took our backward track to the front of Petersburg, near to the place where Captain

is now in Charge of our Regimental Quarter Master and I will Send it home with the first Officer of my

There is no news of importance with us that would itnerest you So I will close by Sending my best respects

And as this is Christmas night and I alone in my Shanty will improve it in writing You althouth there

excepted it and had a verry nice time yet I think had I been in New York or Brooklyn that I would enjoyed My-Self

are now Priosners of War Who have Served and fought in the regiment Since the Orginization and for my

April 7/64— father i have been here to se yo and yo was not at home i leave my best wishes hoping yo

not received the letter  I hope wen those few lines reach you they will find yo well i am quite well my

friday i was exazamend by the beast of dockters i would not go in the invalid corps so they send me to my

ridgement i am willing to go and try and do my duty thair and if the Rebs hit me a gen all rite i will

thair i have ben home sence i left Washington i wish yo would see dockter blis and have him to send my

write and let me know how yo are geting a long and how the boys is gets a long tel them i am going to my

lost] yesterday and was glad to heer from yo and yo were en Joying good helth as for me i am not well my

very slow the warm wether chafed me all to peces and now with all the rest i have got a large boil on my

left knee my famly is well my little girl has ben quite sick but is well agen— the wether has ben very

and came horn and kep hid 3 weeks thare is 30 dollars reward on him i think they had or to hang him my

Friend witman I now take the plesure of fulfilling my promace of writing to yo hoping to find yo en Joying

good hlth I am not very well i am worse now than wen i got out of bed i tore my wound acoming home the

i have been home i have had the docter and he ordered me to bathe in sider soaky i will hef to have my

better here than they do in washington I find a grate many that donte know me when i arrived in york my

cosin was thare and he brought me to my home it has ben rainy ever since I have been home— give my love

Dear Father I now take the plesure of fulfilling my promace a writing to you hoping those few lines will

find you well 1 am getting better fast i am at home now i got home after noon my famly is well i left

long to see yo and have a long talk with yo It rains here this morning and to day is lection one of my

mornin dated the 13 and was very glad to hear from yo i am not very well i have good dele of pain in my

away an then we must all sooner or later give up this world— i had a few lines from home this morning my

little girl is sick and i feeling bad to think that i cant see her now but my prays is that she may

start for elickazandry [Alexandria] to the convalesent camp if i could get to the city i could get my

discharge but i cant father i thank yo for seeing about my discriptave list for they owe me now six

news here we had a good dinner here to day father yo must excuse me for not writing a long letter for my

yo and i was glad to here from yo i am not very well and have not ben for some time i have pain in my

head and breast i think the clorform that i have taken is the caus of it my hip is very painful to day

i was exasamend i think that i will go before the board in a day or two i may get my discharge i have

hurd that my ridgement is going home for the winter to recruit thair is only 17 men left inny more for

could get detailed in washington at some thing that i coud do i woud be very glad and would try to do my

My Dear & Esteemed Freind I take the present opporutnity to write you these few lines to inform you that

any answer i think it very Strange i recived these two pictures and give one to wilson, and kept one my

March 19, 1873 Walt Whitman Dear friend, By my sister Nell's request I send you today by mail the best

copy I could find of my Medical Electricity.

more pretentious books, published by medical electricilians electricians in this country who have made my

I wrote to my sister my haunting fear that you might use electricity prematurely & incautiously & I rejoiced

I for one have felt my indebtedness to you for great thoughts & words more than ever before.

Walt Whitman, My dear Sir:— Your "Old Poets" in the November Number of the North American Review, I read

Pardon my sending you my thoughts, which, judging from the tone of your article I feel sure you will

My dear Sir;— Will you kindly favor me with your autograph, to go in company with others famous in word

I look forward to my visit abroad with great expectation. "My health?

My income is just sufficient to keep my head above water—and what more can a poet ask?

of my life.

Sometimes I think my Western experiences a force behind my life work. "Also the battlefield?

"My idea of a book? A book must have a living vertebra to hold it together. "My religion?

"My health?

My income is just sufficient to keep my head above water—and what more can a poet ask?

"My opinion of other American poets?

"My religion? I should refuse to be called a materialist.

I recovered what I call my second wind from nature.

June 18 188 8 My dear Mr.

Whitman:— I read with sorrow of your severe illness and beg to offer my sympathy.

let me have ten or Fifteen Dollars have been having pretty hard luck of late and find myself Broke My

My first meeting with Walt Whitman occurred when I was a boy and had occasion to ask for a certain residence

I did not know who or what he was, but on his answering my question I was so struck with the quality

My first visit to him occurred some years later, in the little house on Mickle Street which has been

matter of punctuation, and it was a source of annoyance to find the title of his latest book, "Good Bye My

I have neglected it so long I suppose you thought I had quit forgotten you, but I can asure you my Dear

your will I should be very happy to keep up a coraspandenc Now I will try and give you an account of my

morning changed cars there fore Pittsburg arrived there about noon I went to the Soldiers home and got my

about two months before that so in the evening I took the cars again and the next morning I arrived at my

estimated 15,000 Majority for the Union that is the home vote the copperheads are completely played out My

My Dear Sir It is with the greatest pleasure that I seat myself to give you a few lines to let you know

Uncle I have got very near well. the wound in my chest has got nearly well.

Also my arm is geting along nicely but their is some slight pain yet but none to stop me from writing

I hope you will excuse me for not writing sooner I have been laid up with a pain in my back ever since

I am agoing going to have it framed if nothing happens I want that Picture to remain in my family as

hopeing hoping this may find you improving in health .. also with much love & many thanks from myself & my

My father & mother is still living in Bridgeville But myself & my little Family live near the capital

My arm has come out in a sore were where one of the balls struck it it is so bad that it gives me much

urge him to give me a posison position I have some recomdation recommendation from Curtain of Pa & my

Captain.

Friend Whitting, Sir, We received your kind and welcome letter inquiring for my boy Billy and in reply

Dear Poet: The above lines I dedicate to you—my guide.

No 321 High S t Newark New Jersey June 15th / 91 My Dear Friend Walt , I see by the papers that a short

Just reaching up to my Three score. I have been thinking how long since I saw you.

I have in my mind one, that is George Storms as you used to ride more with him than any one else: but

I hardly think I will find many of them but I will try my best to find some of them. in the meantime

Newark, New Jersey June 21st, 1874 My Dear Friend Your Letters & papers came duly at hand.

I left New York in Oct. 1868, and me and my Brother started A Milk Depot here And we until the Spring

When we separated and I commenced to Paddle my own Canoe: I have A small route And keep A Depot.

Enclosed you will find A Card which my friends say resembles your Humble Servant Very Much you shall

I suppose this is your last production: My Best Wishes from your friend, William H.

My dear Friend and Master, About twelve years since, I was in Boston and looking at the books of an old

In all my troubles and successes I have been strengthened by your divine teachings.

(My words seem utterly paltry and drivelling, and I am thoroughly ashamed of them.

My dear Master— do write to me—your faithful pupil and lover.

My will not prove my love, but could you have seen my work since I first read your divine Message—you

My friend Carpenter —one of your best friends—has sent me a copy of his "Songs of Labour"; containing

I cannot express my feelings in this Commercial language, when writing to people I love, and do not try

Whitman, late in life, said to Horace Traubel: "[I] take my Ruskin with some qualifications."

Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my

George's Farm, Totley nr Sheffield, England. 4.4.79 My dear Friend and Guide.

He addressed Whitman as "My dear Friend and Master" in a letter on March 5, 1879.

In all my troubles and successes I have been strengthened by your divine teachings."

Whitman, late in life, said to Horace Traubel: "[I] take my Ruskin with some qualifications."

George's Farm, Totley, near Sheffield, England, 2.4.79 My dear Friend and Guide.

What I have in me to say to you on my own account cannot be uttered in any words.

You translated hitherto hidden languages for me; you opened my eyes, which had before been only partly

He addressed Whitman as "My dear Friend and Master" in a letter on March 5, 1879.

In all my troubles and successes I have been strengthened by your divine teachings."

Whitman, late in life, said to Horace Traubel: "[I] take my Ruskin with some qualifications."

A Visit to Walt Whitman A visit to Walt Whitman On a hot August afternoon, in 1889, my wife and I went

And Walt replied: "Well my friends who have known me longest have told me, many times, that I always

And then he added, after reflecting a moment: "I think my poems are like your West—crude, uncultured,

Walt sat in his arm-chair, and held wife with his right hand and me with his left, and said: "So long, my

arrangements and returned and told him all about it which pleased him very much, he put his arms around my

another room and when it got close to the wall an oven door opened and in went the rod and pan with my

friend vanishing away like a snow flake before my eyes. that thought then as well as now crowded into

These are part of what thoughts were crowding in my brain as I stood watching for one hour till my friend

Cooper vanished away before my eyes. so I felt I must tell you that there is a new Crematory built in

.— My dear Mr.

New Haven Conn: July 1, 1885 PO Box 489 My dear Whitman: I see by the papers that you may be going to