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I said, What is it, my dear, do you want any thing?

Richmond— Walt— Jeff, of course you must take this up to mother soon as you go home—Jeff, I have changed my

51st—George's letter to me of 16th I sent to Han—should like to see Mr Worthen if he comes here—give my

remembrance to Mr Lane I have writ to George several times in hopes one at least may reach him—Matty, my

In addition, he altered phraseology: "What is it, my dear" became "What is it, my boy?"

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

30, 1868, Whitman informed Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Proud Music of the Storm" was "put in type for my

firm was in bankruptcy, Redfield noted that the balance due Whitman ($63.45) "will have to go in with my

I think my estate will pay 50 cents on the dollar: hope so at any rate."

My shoulder is all right as far as being comfortable goes but is not good for much to use yet.

Monthly rejected four poems that Whitman had submitted ("Old Chants," "Grand Is the Seen," "Death dogs my

letter to Whitman's disciple and biographer Horace Traubel: "I had a fall last evening and dislocated my

General Philip Henry Sheridan's death (on August 5), and later as Interpolation Sounds in Good-Bye My

Man's Rejoinder, first published in the Critic 17 (16 August 1890) before being reprinted in Good-Bye My

Poet.1870-1874poetry1 leafhandwritten; Annotated draft of the untitled poem that begins Come, said my

1850 and 1855poetry1 leafhandwritten; Whitman revised this poetic fragment and used it in Who Learns My

Review in November 1890 and later reprinted in the Pall Mall Gazette (17 November 1890) and in Good-Bye My

27O Earth, My Likeness (1860).

A.MS. draft.loc.00225xxx.00099[O Earth, my likeness]1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf20.5 x 16 cm; A draft

of the poem first published as Calamus, No. 36 in 1860 (Earth, My Likeness in the final version of Leaves

[O Earth, my likeness]

In the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass , Whitman included the lines: "Who learns my lesson complete?

My Lesson Have you learned my lesson complete: It is well—it is but the gate to a larger lesson—and And

mother generations guided me, / My embryo has never been torpid . . . . nothing could overlay it; /

All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me, / Now I stand on this spot with my

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

the breath is leaving my throat; ! Open your floodgates!

I am faintish I can contain resist you no longer think I shall drop sink , Take drops the tears of my

¶Little as your mouth yo lips are am faintish I am faintish; and it has drained me dry of my strength

. . . . my breath is tight in its throat; / Unclench your floodgates!

original "Inscription" to the 1867 edition, ultimately appearing under the title "Small the Theme of My

has come safely —thanks—I am here yet getting along fairly—seven weeks hot weather here—but I hug to my

old den thro' all as the best I can do in my immobile condition—no sales of books —love to all inquiring

Whitman made a similar observation in The Commonplace-Book on July 19, 1889: "No sale worth mentioning of my

400 Fifth Avenue June 5, 90 My dear Mr.

Sometime I will pay, so far as may be in my power, a fitting tribute to your character and genius.

He reprinted it in his 1891 bookGood-Bye My Fancy.

The friends who have seen my copy are very much pleased with it, and have decided to present a copy to

Robert Browning (1812–1889), known for his dramatic monologues, including "Porphyria's Lover" and "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

He asked me somewhat about my life and doings at home.

My memories of Walt Whitman include many talks, in which I did my best to obtain light upon these and

I receive now again of my many translations,from my avataras ascending, while others doubtless await

(p.66.) " Camerado, I giveyou my hand, I give you my love more precious than money."

For my enemy is dead,a man divineas myself isdead.

15 th Sunday 18 67 Dear Friend Walt Whitman I know that you will not think I have forgotten you by my

long silence for I have been waiting patiently for more than four months for an answer to my last letter

I spent a week in New York City in June, my Wife was taken sick there while visiting her Sister and they

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

Grass (1891–92), lines from this manuscript appear in both One's-Self I Sing and Small the Theme of My

which was first published in the August 16, 1890 issue of the Critic and later reprinted in Good-Bye My

prefatory poem of the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass, which was later revised as Small the Theme of My

leaveshandwritten; Lightly revised printer's copy of For Queen Victoria's Birthday, which was published in Good-Bye My

26Death Dogs My Steps (1890).

A.MS. draft.loc.00120xxx.00406Death Dogs My Stepsabout March 3, 1890poetryhandwritten1 leaf12 x 19 cm

; Draft of Death Dogs My Steps written in ink on the inside of a discarded and opened out envelope, addressed

Death Dogs My Steps

"So here I sit gossiping in the early candle-light of old age—I and my book—casting backward glances

over our travelled road…That I have not gained the acceptance of my own time but have fallen back on

I had my choice when I commenced.

I present my tribute, drop my bit of laurel into the still warm, firm hand of the victorious singer.

These snowy hairs, my feeble arm, my frozen feet, For them thy faith, thy rule, I take and grave it to

Whitman defended himself by reversing his previous commentary and writing "My Tribute to Four Poets"

.; Reprinted as "Interpolation Sounds" in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

Dear comrade, you must be assured that my heart is much with you in New York, & with my other dear friends

Dear comrade, I still live here as a hospital missionary after my own style, & on my own hook—I go every

I have cut my beard short, & hair ditto: (all my acquaintances are in anger & despair & go about wringing

My face is all tanned & red.

Then around my majestic brow, around my well-brimmed felt hat—a black & gold cord with acorns.

New York, I had to be in Washington: I was never in the one place but I was restless for the other: my

My dear W. W.

It is postmarked: SCHOOL GREEN | B | MY 14 | 91 | ISLE OF WIGHT; A; RECEIVED | May | 24 | 12 | 12 | ;

[London,] Nov. 9 th 79 My dear Walt Whitman For the last two weeks I have been expecting to hear from

Rock Mountains—gave out about two weeks ago & have been quite sick ever since (principal trouble with my

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

Camden 11 a m Tuesday My friend J. M. S. | (for so I would have it) Yours just rec'd.

On April 7 Scovel suggested that "to start right again I think you had better send me my MSS—and let

I clung to the farm & lived alone with my dog, coming down here Sundays & stormy weather.

The old farm where I was born has come back upon my hands & is very embarrassing.

I tried to help my brother through with it, but he has proved unequal to the task & I have had to take

Robert Browning (1812–1889), known for his dramatic monologues, including "Porphyria's Lover" and "My

I see that Jan: 6 I sent you my circular in answer to previous letter from you—that is the only correspondence—I

But as in all such cases, I consider it my obligation & loss.

I send the Two Volumes, to you, same mail with this—The Two embody all my works—the little Vol's being

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

But I have not suggested or exprest expressed myself well in my book unless I have in a sort included

I was very happy—I don't think I was at my best with him—he always did most of the talking—I am sure

E. and all, I consider not only a victor-event in my life, but it is an after-explanation of so much

My dear friend, I think I know R.W.E. better than anybody else knows him—and loved him in proportion,

that "Emerson inspired the first poems of Whitman," and that Whitman had confided to him in 1860: "My

Dearest mother, I suppose you got my letter Monday 12th (written Sunday.)

1873, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman explained that her "nervous system is very much out of order . . . my

The preface was included in Good-Bye My Fancy (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891), 51–53.

"Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and was reprinted in Good-Bye My

My dear darling walter Walter i got your letter yesterday and saturday Saturday i am midling middling

to day have been not very well my head has been quite bad but i hope to get better dear i am glad you

are better dont don't send any more papers as i cant can't read my head gets confused) i know its it's

my nerves has got bad but i hope to get better of it in time good bie my dear blessed son An image of

Louisa described the later episode, probably a stroke, the following week: "my head and my very brain

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

My dear Walt, I regret to say I was unable to do anything with the proof of Personalism.

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

editorial decisions, which included editing potentially objectionable content and removing entire poems: "My

English or transatlantic "free will offering"—a proposed affectionate and voluntary gift to me from my

(My publisher David McKay, of Philadelphia, has just been over to pay the last half-annual royalty on

being the income to me from the sale of my books for the last six months.)

rations fairly, write a little, and shall quite certainly soon resume my usual state of health, late

Give my love to Wm M. Rossetti and to all enquiring friends, known or unknown.

interview with the poet from the Cleveland Leader and Herald on June 28, in which Whitman was quoted: "My

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

and Talcott Williams are the instigators of it all—(I am receiving great & opportune Kindnesses in my

old days—& this is one of them) — The printed slip on the other side I just cut out of my Phila: Press

January 21 O'Connor reported to Whitman that "the New York publishers have uniformly refused to publish my

White, even at my expense."

am not feeling very well walter Walter dear i am very nervious nervous and have such a trembling in my

whole system my appetite is very poor dont don't know what ails me i feel bad maybee maybe nothing Lou

sending the $5 is not extant, in his April 30, 1873 letter he had promised to enclose the money in "my

the shortness of this letter, the deficiency of her handwriting, and her report of "a trembling in my

Whitman in his April 30, 1873 letter to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman promised to send "the other 5 in my

to-day—have just written a little poemet "Sail out for good for aye O mystic yacht of me" for outset of my

Whitman is referring to the group of thirty-one poems taken from the book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) that

For more information on Good-Bye My Fancy, as a book and an annex, see Donald Barlow Stauffer, "Good-Bye

my Fancy (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed.

My plans at present are to be in Washington (at Med. Supp. Ass.

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

, grip, or zest—Have a good doctor & take medicine daily—am printing the little 2d annex, "Good-Bye my

Canada—I believe expects to come this way (& to Washington) in three weeks—Fine sunny day as I write—had my

breakfast, a rare fried egg, Graham wet toast & coffee—my supper at 5—no dinner—pretty fair spirits—often

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

been at a meter meeting—all the principal stock holders present—got home about 6 P.M. and found it on my

I cannot undertand you leaving it out—to my mind it is an admirable piece—most valuable.

Whitman is referring to a group of thirty-one poems that he would publish as "Good-Bye my Fancy . . .

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

Whitman chose not to include it in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

the first page correspond to verses 1-3 of the 1860 version, and those on the second page ("Publish my

name and hang up/ my picture...") to lines 4-11.

Earls Colne Sept. 3. 1874 My dearest Friend The change down here has refreshed me more than usual and

I find my Mother still wonderful for her years (the 89th), able to get out daily in her Bath chair for

I have been before breakfast mostly in a beautiful garden (the old Priory garden) with my beloved Poems

heart—pain for you, my Darling.

always to be with my Mother here.

his letter to Anne Gilchrist of August 18, 1873, a ring: "The enclosed ring I have just taken from my

finger & send you with my love."

, 1873, she wrote about her children; and on December 18, 1873, she said of his health: "Perhaps if my

I turn my face to the westward sky and before I lie down to sleep, deep & steadfast within me the silent

Cloudy & rain & dark weather to-day & looks like snow out—has been a rather gloomy week past with me—my

Ingersoll's lect: is being printed in a small book in N Y, & I will send you one—sell my books to purchasers

stronger—write soon & tell me ab't him, & w'd like to send him something for Christmas present—And my

enough for me to have him with me every day—I am getting more helpless than ever in legs and ankles—only 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

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

'89 Dec. 25 6 p m —have been out to-day in the wheel chair —& down to the kitchen at the table for my

supper—now sitting as usual up in my den—J A Symonds from Switzerland has sent the warmest & (I think

you after a little while— Yesterday went out (two hours drive) to the Harleigh Cemetery & selected my

to-day, & got the money —am feeling fairly (inclined to heavy) to-day—plain indications of rheumatism in my

right arm—both my parents had r but not yet in me—Shall have a currying & then get out in the wheel

indeed "passionate": "I cannot even attempt to tell yourself (upon this page of paper with this pen in my

cannot find words better fitted to express the penetrative fate with which you have entered into me, my

reliance on you, & my hope that you will not disapprove of my conduct in the last resort."

& my two letters since—& the March Lippincott's magazine?

& nothing promising ahead—but sit up & read & write—have just had a little stew'd rice & mutton for my

other friends not named—mates of mine unspecified there whom you are authorized to give them if any my

Thirty-one poems from Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy

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

explaining his rationale for the delay: "I have not wanted to bother you during your severe illness, hence my