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My dear Walt. Your welcome letter was duly received for which accept many thanks.
The tax on my part the last year was quite as much as I received— Well, what we want is to have them
and other customs of the ancient Egyptians, in whose country I have passed the last twenty years of my
I suppose that you have nearly forgotten me, but if you will think back you will remember a man by my
And now you will please accept my thanks for all the favors that you have shown me while lying then unable
Made Captain Aug. 1864—got a family in Buffalo" (Manuscripts of Walt Whitman in the Collection of American
State Volunteers where he enrolled as first sergeant of Company F (and was eventually promoted to captain
I am very anxious to hear something of the whereabouts of my Capt I have written several times and as
about your dismissal from the Interior Department, and as I once read your book, I am moved to express my
the President coming in and we stept back into the East Room and stood near the front windows, where my
It didn't last more than three or four minutes, but there was something about a letter which my friend
I expect to be in Washington on my way down South in a few days and will take the freedom of giving you
Please don't mention my name in connection with what I write about Harlan.
Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith my accounts as Disbursing Clerk for the Department of Justice
Dear Sir: I return with my thanks the letter of the Attorney General to the Postmaster General of the
I regret that it is not in my power to comply with your request. Very respectfully, A. J.
Baltimore June 6th 1891 My Dear Walt Whitman Please write your autograph & enclose in the accompanying
envelope I appreciate the many & favors asked of you but desire your autograph so much to add to my
It later appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and, as part of the Good-Bye my Fancy annex, in the so-called
O my body, that gives me identity! O my organs !
Underfoot, the divine soil— Overhead, the sun.— Afford foothold to my poems, you Nourish my poems, Earth
In Poem The earth, that is my model of poems model ?
The body of a man, is my model—I do not reject what I find in my body—I am not ashamed—Why should I be
My Darling (Now I am maternal— a child bearer— bea have from my womb borne a child, and observe it For
"So my friends tell me, but I never met him." "Don't you think, Mr.
James Gray, Bookbinder 16 Spruce st. 4th floor, is the custodian of the sheets of my Leaves of Grass,
leafhandwritten; A scrap of Civil War memoranda headed "51st N Y V" in which Whitman mentions the death of Captain
Bliss Perry, with my kindest regards—Ellen M. Calder. June 24, 1906."
Brown"; in pen (probably Mitchell's hand), "Given to my son Langdon March 1887". Dr.
Emory Holloway / My dear Mr.
Holloway, / You ask for some history of my 'Leaves of Grass' and I find myself rather vague as to my
My father-in-law, Thomas [illeg.]
My situation is rather a pleasant one.
There are many peculiarities in New Orleans that I shall jot down at my leisure in these pages.
My health was most capital; I frequently thought indeed that I felt better than ever before in my life
After changing my boarding house, Jef. and I were, take it altogether, pretty comfortable.
My own pride was touched—and I met their conduct with equal haughtiness on my part.
which was first published in the August 16, 1890 issue of the Critic and later reprinted in Good-Bye My
A.MS. draft.loc.00248xxx.00236[(Returning to my pages front once]between 1873-1876poetryhandwritten1
[(Returning to my pages front once]
Myself": "Looking in at the shop-windows in Broadway the whole forenoon . . . . pressing the flesh of my
.— (He could say) I know well enough the perpetual myself in my poems—but it is because the universe
Whitman’s famous rhymed dirge for Lincoln, “O Captain! My Captain!
my Captain!
My Captain!” An unsigned review in The Inde - pendent in 1865 mused that “O Captain!”
My Captain!,” and “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” 15.
My Captain!
whoexplainedthemysteriesoftheuniverse—because“Themost they offer for mankind and eternity [is] less than a spirt of my
“A sprit of my own seminal wet”: Spermatoid Design in Walt Whitman’s 1860 Leaves of Grass
Doyle recalled, "We were familiar at once—I put my hand on his knee—we understood . . .
soul the clear and unmistakable conviction to disobey all, and pursue my own way" (Whitman 281).
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman . Boston: Beacon, 1985. Coffman, Stanley K., Jr.
body as I pass, / Be not afraid of my body."
He examined his own experience in My Days and Dreams (1890).