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published in Have We a National Literature, (North American Review, 152, March 1891), and in Good-bye My

Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.

to my barestript heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.

Captain and all the My Captains in my book!

“I felt my life with both my hands” (Fr 357). 25.

, My Captain,” 18, Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 57, 95 233n29; “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” Wolosky, Shira, 30

puto translates from Latin to "I am a human being: I regard nothing of human concern as foreign to my

puto translates from Latin to "I am a human being: I regard nothing of human concern as foreign to my

431 Stevens st Camden N Jersey U S America April 23 I have to-day sent by mail my new Vol.

; London N W | C 7 | Paid | My 8 | 76."

Good Night Mother give my love to all G. W.

course you knew all about his arrival at Anapolis  i saw his name in the times with 500 others arrived)  my

This was revised to become section 40 of Calamus in 1860; in 1867 it was retitled That Shadow, My Likeness

Whitman included this preface in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) as Preface to a volume of essays and tales

It was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) under the title Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher.

Although the poem was unpublished in its entirety, the seventh line was used in the poem To My Soul,

Nothing very new or different in my affairs.

here in Atty Gens office—same posish position —have good health—expect to bring out new editions of my

books before very long—how is the little boy—I send my love to him, & to your wife & parents.

wrote but then deleted: "O if we could only be together now even if only Dear Boy, dear, dear friend, my

In 1888 Walt Whitman commented to Horace Traubel about this letter: "I can't live some of my old letters

I want you to look over the past and I will do my best to ward toward you in the future.

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

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

before being collected in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). [Then Another and very grave point]

OV 2Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), Manuscript draftloc.05458xxx.00459Good-Bye My Fancy1891poetryprintedhandwritten14

leaves; Manuscript and corrected print material that was included in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

Good-Bye My Fancy

night, and will not lose any time in answering it this time, but I do not know as you will approve of my

writing on Sundays, but that is about the only time I have for writing except evenings and then my hands

tremble so from my work (which is nearly all done by the hands) that I can scarcely write inteligibly

deserve his love as well as that of thousands of others myself included, and I wish you to give him my

I am a married man but I am not happy for my disposition is not right.

21, 1867, Wilson acknowledged Whitman's reply of April 12, 1867: "I do not want you to misunderstand my

motives in writing to you of my Situation & feelings as I did in my last letter or else I shall have

to be more guarded in my letters to you.

I wrote so because you wanted me to write how I was situated, and give you my mind without reserve, and

Father & Mother & My Wife send Love to my kind Friend, & you know you have a good share of mine.

I am a married man but I am not happy for my disposition is not right.

21, 1867, Wilson acknowledged Whitman's reply of April 12, 1867: "I do not want you to misunderstand my

motives in writing to you of my Situation & feelings as I did in my last letter or else I shall have

to be more guarded in my letters to you.

I wrote so because you wanted me to write how I was situated, and give you my mind without reserve, and

No word yet from Wm Gurd in re meter—I shall not be able to fix the time of my going East untill until

On October 20, 1888, O'Connor had written Bucke that "a month ago my right eye closed, and the lid had

Earlier that year, January 23, 1888, O'Connor had described one of his attacks for Bucke:"My state of

I sat down to dinner, suddenly felt a curious still feeling, pushed back my chair, and became perfectly

The room was lighted, and four doctors were around me, and my wife and a couple of neighbors.

It was a tough of apoplexy, incident to my malady the doctor said, and a small blood vessel in my head

of Grass, eventually titled "Song of Myself": "The supernatural of no account . . . . myself waiting my

Johnston on September 1, 1887, "He advertises...to sell my photo, with autograph.

partly scornful, or occasionally put a dry remark, which only adds fuel to the flame—I do not feel it in my

find that the deeper they go in with the draft, the more trouble it is likely to make—I have changed my

family, still I feel somewhat uneasy—about Jeff, if any one, as he is more around—I have had it much on my

have no doubt I shall make a few hundred dollars by the lectures I shall certainly commence soon, (for my

hospital missionary purposes & my own, for that purpose) & I could lend that am't to Jeff to pay it

From my own personal observations I think that the newspapers would give one the most perverted kind

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

Johnston on September 1, 1887, "He advertises . . . to sell my photo, with autograph.

[Whitman referred to "My Long Island Antecedents" and to a favorable review of Leaves of Grass in the

Whitman sent "My Long Island Antecedents" to The North American Review on October 29, but it was returned

'91 Am still holding on—same place Mickle Street—not writing any for publication—suppose you rec'd my

last little book "Good–Bye my Fancy" —J W Wallace of Bolton, Eng: is here —Dr Bucke is well & busy,

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

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

finished—I paid the constructor $500 last week —(as far as I can see I am favor'd in having Ralph Moore as my

alter ego in making it)—I wish to collect the remains of my parents & two or three other near relations

G—praises it highly tho' —As I get toward estimate—but that is more in the forming than settled state—f'm my

off-handedness, even evidence of decrepitude & old fisherman's seine character as part of the artism (f'm my

. | May 23 | 8 PM | 91; Philadelphia | May | 9PM | 1891 | Transit; London | MY 25 | 91 | Canada.

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

to-day —he sends me the enclosed little slip from O'C —the condition is bad, & I feel pretty gloomy ab't my

of this last attack—I only wish I could feel so, or even approximate it—But any how thank God so far my

thoughts & mental power are entirely within my control—I have written a short letter to Critic (by their

request) on the "poet" question (wh' they may print) —My sister—George's wife —has just paid me a good

K. is in Boston at a Symphony Concert and a precious ½ hour for my soul being at my disposal I feel a

strong inner impulse to pour out here in the evening solitude, my heart to you in a genuine heart-letter

O'Connor to Bucke on October 20, 1888 mentioned that "a month ago my right eye closed, and the lid had

treatise on the theory behind Leaves of Grass, which includes a plug for Whitman's latest work, Good-Bye My

[Out from Behind This Mask]Reprinted as "Out from Behind This Mask: To confront My Portrait, illustrating

[Come, said my Soul]According to the Comprehensive Reader's Edition of Leaves of Grass, this poem appeared

Two Rivulets" section of Two Rivulets (1876).; Reprinted as "Out from Behind This Mask: To confront My

biography, The Ferry Boy and the Financier (Boston: Walker and Wise, 1864); he described their meetings in My

Though Trowbridge was not an idolator of Whitman, he wrote to O'Connor in 1867: "Every year confirms my

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

My dear friend , Your letter is rec'd received , having been sent on to me from Washington.

My address still remains Solicitor's office, Treasury there.

I have been stopping for two months, (Feb. & March,) home with my Mother , & am writing this home.

finely, & is cheerful hearted—will probably soon give up her housekeeping & go to live with one of my

brothers, who is married —My father died seventeen years since.

On April 12, 1872, Gilchrist objected to this warning: "it hurts so, as seeming to distrust my love.

that sooner or later you will not be able to help stretching out your arms towards me & saying 'Come, my

be satisfied with a gossipy letter about his affairs, she really wanted more: "And if you say 'Read my

My Captain!”).

to my barestript heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet.

I am running on my nerve, I am running on my spinal cord!

my life.

My Captain!

These were my first years with Emerson, and the questions provoked by my confession of this fact would

He lifted my common experience into biblical sanctity, and impelled my whole life to expanding issues

He thoroughly respected my autonomy, never once crossing my transactions with printer or binder.

Can I have won my battle after all?...

If I go there with a magazine under my arm, or a paper in my pocket, he is quite likely to ask me to

to my Notes" is written along the top of the page.

Some lines in this manuscript can also be found in [I just spin out my notes], another prose manuscript

Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads was drawn from three previously published pieces (A Backward Glance on My

Own Road [1884], How I Made a Book [1886], and My Book and I [1887]).

Looking at it another time, Whitman mused, "That was my prime—that was the period of my power—of endurance

Whitman used lines from Pictures for the poem My Picture-Gallery, first published in Leaves of Grass

and I1886 or 1887prose22 leaveshandwritten; A late-stage draft, with printer's notes, of the essay My

My Book and I

hun.00011xxx.00320HM 11207Queries To My Seventieth YearTo my seventieth year1888poetry1 leafhandwritten

; Heavily revised draft, signed, of Queries to My Seventieth Year, a poem first published in the May

Queries To My Seventieth Year

Henceforth After this day, A touch shall henceforth be small Little things is shall be are henceforth my

my tongue proof and argument It They shall tell s for me that people In them, the smallest least of

over all, and what we thought death is but life brought to a finer parturition.— An inch's contact My

The clearest relation is to the line: "A minute and a drop of me settle my brain" (1855, p. 33), but

I entertain all the aches of the human heart Outside the asteroids I reconnoitre at my ease.

Compare these lines from that edition: "I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer

look—We would like to pop in on you some evening—what a jolly time we would all have would we not Give my

Walt Whitman after she added this postscript: "Write to poor Mat Walter dear  i am about as usual  my

dear, dear, sister Matty—O how I have been thinking of you, & shall all day—I have not now the use of my

My days will get me over the bridge if I never see it!"

Those fellows have one virtue—they always use good paper: and on that I manage to do a good deal of my

Camden New Jersey Dec 20 My dear Jenny Gilder Yours of to-day rec'd received —(The other also—but I thought

write now in haste to say I will help you to any thing on the subject you desire—Will turn it over in my

Gilder wrote to Whitman, in his words, "that she is going to write my life & asking for items &c" (Walt

for $12.50 on Jan: 22—I write to-day that I have not seen or heard of any such order, but consider it my

Asylum for the Insane, London, 28th May 188 3 My dear Walt I have had the book a couple of days and have

credit than the Author —I am really surprised at the tact and judgement you have displayed in putting my

I suppose McKay will send me a statement (all in good time) showing my financial position as toward the

Bucke's WW done at last,—all bound & ready—seems to look very well—to-day I enter on my sixty-fifth year

I send you, by same mail with this, in a little book, my piece lately delivered for Dartmouth College

With best respects & love, Walt Whitman My address continues the same, Solicitor's Office Treasury, Washington

University of Virginia, who is preparing an edition of Tennyson's letters, has graciously consented to my

.; An earlier version of this poem entitled "My Departure" appeared in the Long Island Democrat, 23 October

Grass (1871-72).; This poem later appeared as "Calamus No. 40," Leaves of Grass (1860); as "That Shadow My

November 1878 and as "To the Man-of-War-Bird" in Leaves of Grass (1881–82).; Reprinted in Good-Bye My

Revised and reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).; This poem was reprinted in the Critic, 16 (24 May

"; Reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).

My Dear Old Friend, Just a few lines to send you my love & say "How do" to you a cross the deep Atlantic

In his March 9, 1892, letter to Traubel, Greenhalgh wrote that "Walt has taught me 'the glory of my daily

In all the departments of my life Walt entered with his loving personality & I am never alone" (Horace

On October 1, 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.