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Please to remember me to Miss Lowell Brown , Benedict, Bartlett, & Chas Cate —also to all others of my

and for two or three days many said I could not live but I had a good Doctor and have almost regained my

For my part I confess I did not vote for the old General, but I am willing to see all the good developments

The delay of the last two months in getting ready my second instalment of the 1876 Edition, has annoyed

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

sake, Of departing—of the growth of a mightier race than any yet, Of myself, soon, perhaps, closing up my

"So my friends tell me, but I never met him." "Don't you think, Mr.

MY VISITS AND DISTRIBUTIONS.

Looking from any eminence and studying the topography in my rambles, I use them as landmarks.

I have already distributed quite a large amount of money, put in my hands for that purpose by benevolent

I regularly carry a haversack with me, and my coat has two of the biggest kind of pockets. [ To be Continued

camping with lumber-men, Along the ruts of the turnpike . . . along the dry gulch and rivulet bed, Hoeing my

gold-digging . . . girdling the trees of a new purchase, Scorched ankle-deep by the hot sand . . . hauling my

"If I worship one thing more than another," he proclaims, "it shall be the spread of my own body" ("Song

"Whitman's Image of Voice: To the Tally of my Soul." Walt Whitman. Modern Critical Views. Ed.

[section 14] and "See, steamers steaming through my poems," etc.

other poems will remind the reader of the declaration that "I am myself just as much evil as good, and my

I was glad enough to hear this and went at once to the next room to my overcoat, bringing the contracts

Warrie, bring my glasses," which Warrie did, likewise bringing the rest, asking W., "Shall I lift you

My original intention was to create a comprehensive edition of Whitman interviews, an ambition that seemed

My research into the development of the interview genre made it clear that conceiving interviews as necessarily

I do not press my finger across my mouth, I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and

Amelioration is my lesson, he says with calm voice, and progress is my lesson and the lesson of all things

I am the teacher of athletes, He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my

own, He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

"The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affec- tions affections They scorn the best I can

GOOD-BYE, MY FANCY. An Annex to Leaves of Grass By Walt Whitman. 8vo, pp. 66.

You will find that my predecessor, Mr.

"History of My Whitman Studies." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 9 (1991): 91–100. Blair, Stanley S.

"Millet is my painter," Whitman said; "he belongs to me: I have written Walt Whitman all over him" (With

that will become the envy of the world.Whitman sees these productive fields as "the true arenas of my

In Specimen Days Whitman summed up the impact of the West: "I have found the law of my own poems" (Specimen

in contrast to the frustration of the preceding section: the speaker accepting the "souse upon me of my

Ships at Sea," Whitman calls his book "not a reminiscence of the land alone" but a "lone bark" bearing "my

Revolutionary War but the necessity for union affirmed by the recently concluded American Civil War; "my

turning point in his own life, what he later termed "the very centre, circumference, umbilicus, of my

I go to my work with lighter heart.6:08 P.M. A second look in at 328. News there bad.

At 328 on my homeward way. W. passed an average day.

Said, "I took my medicine at 12, 3, 6, 9, 12.

I said, "In my boyhood, knowing him almost altogether from cartoons—he was then running for President—I

Admired its printing.I spoke of my interest in Thoreau.

You see how my Quakerism persists!"

Adding—"If that should go up, my world would go up with it." Aldrich had a poem in the Century.

It was a portrait supplement—years ago—and what you see below there—reproduced from my own hand—out of

"I pay it, as I pay my plumber—under protest. Yes, the laborer is worthy of his hire.

Dear son, how I wish you could come in now, even if but for an hour & take off your coat, & sit on my

Have lost my recognition of your silent ever-swaying power, ye mighty, elemental throes, In which and

And thee my soul, Joys, ceaseless exercises, exaltations, Thy yearning amply fed at last, prepared to

And thee my soul, Joys, ceaseless exercises, exaltations, Thy yearning amply fed at last, prepared to

I would offer, as an illustration of my meaning, that, in times of peace, a slightly greater ratio of

Candidly let me tell you, my friends stay at home. There is no antidote to your dread disease here.

3 March tuesday Tuesday noon My dear walt i have just got your letter with 5 dollars and i got the one

Brooklyn 19 Aug 1868 wensday Wednesday evening My dear Walt i recieved received your letter yesterday

My Dearest Friend: We set foot on dry land again Wednesday morning after a good passage —not a very smooth

I spoke of my last letter to you, & said that if I had had a spare copy of his photo: I would have sent

Love to you always from my heart of hearts J.W. Wallace James W.

We have left Bad-Elster, the baths having perfectly restored my wife's health to our great joy.

celebrated physician remark, in speaking of the decay of health in metropolitan life,—“I should despair of my

inauguration day maybee it dont don't storm in washington Washington though) i am pretty well except a pain in my

been in frequent written com munication on this subject, &, if I hear from you in terms to warrant, my

I am alone at home, with my brothers—Papa & Mother are gone visiting to Uncle John's Father's-in-law.

It is better than I expected It is my philosophy always to accept the good & let the bad go to the dogs

. & if there is any chances of getting into the Fire Department  also to give my respects to all inquiring