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54 Manchester Road Bolton Lancashire England Dec r 27 th 1890 Many thanks to you, my dear old friend,

Another treat in store for us is a Children's Party which my wife & I intend giving in our house, when

It will interest you to know that I have received a brief letter of acknowledgment of my "Notes" & of

I also send you copies of some verses I sent to some of my friends & a copy of this week's Annandale

Observer containing a notice of my "Notes."

54 Manchester Road Bolton Lancashire England Feb 27 91 My Dear Old Friend, Just a few lines to acknowledge

My best thanks to you for all & for your loving benediction & "heart full of good wishes & affectionate

warmest thanks & I should like you to convey my gratitude to him for his dear good letter.

Of my sympathy you are already assured & what can I say but renew the expression of my personal affection

May God grant that it may be so is my heart felt prayer.

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

England Feb 27, 92 My Dear Walt Just a line by tonights mail to send you my deep & heartfelt love & my

been busy sending off copies of the facsimile to over 70 different friends you have hardly been out of my

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

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

My Dear Old Friend, Sitting here on the evening of Good Friday—a general holiday—I thought I w d give

I also took part in the discussion, read extracts from L. of G & shewed showed some of my "Whitman photos

God bless you my dear, old friend, & send you better times!

Please give my kindest regards to HLT & to all your household.

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

England Oct. 28th 1891 My Dear Old Friend, Your two postals of Oct 15 th & 16 came by last mail & I thank

cloudless blue sky—a day to rejoice the heart of man & make him feel glad he is alive I am just in from my

this to the accompaniment of the rattle of lorries cabs & trains the bumping of Railway wagons—for my

frosts have almost cleared the woods & hedgerows of foliage May the oncoming Winter treat you leniently my

My kindest regards to Warry Harry & good Mr s D & my heart's devotion to you Yours ever J Johnston see

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

Whitman's housekeeper, took care of both Harry and Warren after the death of their father, the sea captain

Aug 29 th 1891 My Dear Old Friend.

Please accept of my warmest thanks for your kind postcard of Aug 16 from which I was glad to hear that

I would prize it very, very highly & would give it a place of honour in my home second to none of my

possession s About the time you receive this letter my dear friend, Wallace, will arrive at Phila. &

The mere thought of his meet ing you fills me with undescribable emotion & my heart fairly wells with

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

Whitman's housekeeper, took care of both Harry and Warren after the death of their father, the sea captain

Bolton England July 29. 91 My Dear Walt Whitman Our "Whitman mail" this morning was quite a heavy one—a

Accept of my best thanks for your kind p.c of July 17 th announcing your receipt of our cablegram re

On the 31 st my wife & brother with a lady friend intend going for a weeks holiday to Ballacooil—a farm

but have not yet seen it Wallace has just had tea with me & is sitting now in the next room reading my

Please convey my thanks to him & tell him I will write to him by next mail With kindest regards to all

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

By this time you will, I trust, be in possession of my printed notes and of the numbers of Great Thoughts

I feel to him just now as though he were my grandfather or an aged uncle; as though I once knew him but

my remembrances were like an infant's."

A similar occasion last year on my birthday Dec. 8 suggested the enclosed "Snow Thought" It is now a

glistening road & through the keen, frosty air has exhilirated me & sent the warm blood tingling to my

54 Manchester Road Bolton Lancashire, England January 3 rd 1891 My Dear Old Friend, I must thank you

should kindly think of me & write me such a tender & loving note, and I thank you from the bottom of my

The other day I received a letter from Mrs Harrison of Bideford to whom I sent a copy of my "Notes"—she

will probably write to you By the way it may amuse you to know that in consequence of the extent of my

bring this letter to an end by again expressing the hope that you are keeping better & sending you 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

54 Manchester Road Bolton England June 3rd 1891 My Dear Old Friend and Master, We are wondering how your

he calls one of his "informal talks" upon your attitude to Religion, with readings from & Good Bye My

To me it was a sweetly sacred hour & my heart was full of the tenderest & most hallowed thoughts of you

My heart's best love goes over the sea to you with a great & tender yearning.

The "British Prince"— my ship—sails from Liverpool today. How I wish I were going too! Dr.

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

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

54 Manchester Road Bolton, England July 3rd, 1891 My Dear Old Friend, This afternoon I recd. your kind

p.c. of June 23rd & thank you for it with all my heart.

Please give them & Mrs Davis my kindest regards.

Wallace called here last night, during my absence from town on business, & left one of the "Good Byes

But my time is up. Good night & god bless you Yours affectionately J Johnston Dr.

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

Johnston is referring to Whitman's Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was Whitman's last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short prose works

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy 2d Annex" to Leaves of Grass

My Dear Old Friend As no cablegram came this morning we conclude that "no news is good news" & our anxiety

My best heart love to you now & always. Yours affectionately J. Johnston.

PS Please tell Warry & Mr s Davis that I send my affectionate regards & best wishes for a happy new year

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

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

My Dear Walt Whitman, Our best & warmest thanks to you for your kindness in sending us the advance copy

of "Good Bye My Fancy," which reached us by last mail!

for reading it—I have had a fearfully busy week—but I could not let the mail go without sending you my

Better , I sincerely hope & trust, my good kind old friend.

household & with my heart's best love to you Yours affectionately J.

It is postmarked: BOLTON | 56 | MY 30 | 91; Camden, N.J. | Jun | 7 | 4 PM | 1891 | Rec'd.; Paid | B |

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

Sept 30th '91 My Dear Old Friend, Again have I to acknowledge the receipt of a most welcome missive from

I am sending copies of my "notes" to Professor Brinton & to Mr Harned at the request of H.L.T through

J.W.W Pardon this brief letter—I am just called out to a lady who requires my services.

My love to you & to HLT & his winsome wife now & ever Yours affectly J Johnston Dr.

sixty-five poems that had originally appeared in November Boughs (1888); while the second, "Good-Bye my

Another post card from you, my dear, kind, old friend on the 2 nd inst —the third I have received from

My best thanks to you for it!

s address upon your first edition (1855) comes off at my house.

Pardon my writing more at present.

My horse is ill so I do most of my round on foot & I am tired tonight.

Houghton, Mifflin, 1891), for which Whitman wrote the Preface (which he later included in Good-Bye My

England Nov 4. 91 My Dear Good old Friend, From Wallace comes the information (Oct 23) that you were

This has been a dull, sunless cheerless, November day, wh: has been reflected in my spirit—such creatures

My love to you & my everlasting reverence God bless you now & always Yours affect ly J.

Johnston My kind regards to Mrs D. W. & H. Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 4 November 1891

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

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

England Dec. 4th '91 My Dear Old Friend Your kind & most welcome p.c. of Nov. 22 nd came by last mail

& glad indeed was I to receive it from your dear hand My best thanks to you for it.

Sat Dec 5 th '91 This aft n I stole a couple of hours from my work & went over to see J.W.W. at Anderton

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Friday, September 13, 1889 and Saturday, September 14, 1889: "My

Ma Just a line to say that Fred Wild has written a brief message to you by this mail from my house, &

to send you my best love along with his.

My continued love & sympathy to you. God bless you & yours.

54 Manchester Road Bolton Lancashire, England Feb 6 th 1891 My Dear Old Friend Just a few lines to acknowledge

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

England Jan 6. 91 My Dear Old Friend It is a cold wintry day here—a hard frost, with snow on the ground

I have just finished my morning's round of visits, had dinner & seen the folk in the surgery & as this

continued & unchanged affection for you & of my heartfelt sympathy in your illness.

You are much in my thoughts at all times & I long with a great inexpressible longing to help you But

Later I had got thus far with my letter when I was called away to take in a box wh. had come by rail

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

Whitman's housekeeper, took care of both Harry and Warren after the death of their father, the sea captain

54 Manchester Road Bolton, England June 6 th 1891 Just a line or two to send my loving salutation & cordial

greeting to you, my dear, good old friend & to thank you for the good letter you so kindly sent to Wallace

says: "I was not able to get the portrait in this month but I shall be delighted in noticing "GoodBye My

my horse—truest & faithfullest of friends—has been nearly run off his feet.

We are anxiously awaiting some report of your birthday proceedings Please convey my kindest regards to

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

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

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

My Dear Old Friend, Your kind post card of April 20 th arrived here during my absence in Scotland & I

at my own inability to do anything for you!

At Corby—a pretty little Cumberland village where my married sister lives—I saw my first swallows of

But my greatest Heart-joy was at Annan —my native place—with my Father —my life-long Exemplar of Truth

& Righteousness—my Mother —dearest & best of womankind in all the world to me—my dear Brother & my old

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

Ballacooil Dalby Isle of Man Aug 6 th 1891 My Dear Old Friend Your kind p.c. of July 24 has been forwarded

to me here—the photos referred to being I suppose detained at Bolton till my return there tomorrow.

To my right are gigantic wave-washed boulders; to my left rise the grim barren headlands of the southern

Pardon my writing more at present as I am rather busy with arrears of work God's blessing rest on you

54, Manchester Road, Bolton England Jan 6th '91 My best thanks to you, my dear, good old friend for your

you help me to do more than I can tell you—and sick folks are numerous at this time of the year—But my

work has its compensations obably, nay, certainly, heightens my enjoyment & appreciation of the beauty

, the mystery & somewhat of the meaning of the shards of External Nature which have opened my eyes to

England Nov r 7 th , 1891 My Dear Walt Whitman, I send you my best thanks for your kind p.c. of Oct 27

I much regret to hear of your "bad spell" & send you my warmest sympathy & my best wishes for its speedy

I haste this to you in the hour between my morning & my afternoon's round of visits.

My heart's best love to you always, Johnston Kind regards to all.

my most precious possessions.

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

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

My Dear Old Friend, My best thanks to you for your kind p.c. of Aug 28 in which you say that you are

My heart goes out to you both for now I Know that you have met & are now near each other.

I have my dear good old mother staying with me at present & proud indeed am I to be with her My sister

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

My best & warmest thanks to you, my dear good old friend, for your kind & most welcome p.c. of Jan 9

Last week I forwarded you a copy of my second one from him which I hope you have received.

The following is the list of friends to whom you wished me to send copies of my "Notes."

Nowell, Mrs Harrison & of course to my relatives & such of my personal friends as I thought likely to

with which you have dowered my life!

that he wants to use the photos for his "forthcoming little (2d) annex," which would become Good-Bye My

This expresses the mere fact, so far as I can read my inner self, though perhaps my own industry in life

, on the lines of author mainly, may not seem to corroborate my statement."

She was a widow and had been married to a sea captain. See Carol J.

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

My dear sir, I have been much interested in a letter from you to Mr.

Of the enclosed check, ten dollars of the amount is contributed by my sister, Mrs. G.W.

Briggs of Salem, to whom I read your letter, & ten dollars by my friend Edward Atkinson.

I hope you will continue in your good work, as I am sure from your letter, & from what my friend, Mr.

I have not lately made any requests of my friends for more thinking you perhaps were well supplied for

He made a beautiful comparison between what mothers used to teach their children, "Hush my dear, lie

First, if the liege lord does ought to displease my lady, she tries the usual woman's weapon, her tongue

Nov. 24, 1891 My Dear Whitman: I take the liberty of sending you a barrel of potatoes and some cider,

it seeming to be the best way I know of expressing my feelings these Thanksgiving times, although in

2 O maidens and young men I love, and that love me, What you ask of my days, those the strangest and

without noise, and be of strong heart.) 3 Bearing the bandages, water and sponge, Straight and swift to my

knee, the wound in the abdo- men abdomen ; These and more I dress with impassive hand—(yet deep in my

a fire, a burning flame.) 5 Thus in silence, in dreams' projections, Returning, resuming, I thread my

O maidens and young men I love, and that love me, What you ask of my days, those the strangest and sud

Bearing the bandages, water and sponge, Straight and swift to my wounded I go, Where they lie on the

knee, the wound in the abdo- men abdomen , These and more I dress with impassive hand—(yet deep in my

Thus in silence, in dream's projections, Returning, resuming, I thread my way through the hos- pitals

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]).

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]).

Travel'd Roads was mostly made up of material 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).

duk.00277xxx.00084MS q 29Drops of my Bloodabout 1860poetry1 leafhandwritten; A manuscript that contains

a backing sheet, together with And there, 'The Scout', and In a poem make the.; duk.00890 Drops of my

Come, my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready; Have you your pistols?

For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful

O my breast aches with ten- der tender love for all!

See, my children, resolute children, By those swarms upon our rear, we must never yield or falter, Ages

I too with my soul and body, We, a curious trio, picking, wandering on our way, Through these shores,

"Beginning my studies, the first step pleased me so much, The mere fact, consciousness—these forms—the

pleas'd me so much, I have never gone, and never wish'd to go, any further, But stop and loiter all my

When last in the dooryard the lilacs bloomed [sic]," "Chanting the Square Deific," and "As I lay with my

DRUM-TAPS. 1 FIRST, O songs, for a prelude, Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum, pride and joy in my

O Manhattan, my own, my peerless! O strongest you in the hour of danger, in crisis!

for our pre- lude prelude , songs of soldiers,) How Manhattan drum-taps led. 2 Forty years had I in my

FIRST, O songs, for a prelude, Lightly strike on the stretch'd tympanum, pride and joy in my city, How

O Manhattan, my own, my peerless! O strongest you in the hour of danger, in crisis!

Forty years had I in my city seen soldiers parading; Forty years as a pageant—till unawares, the Lady

, with bends and chutes; And my Illinois fields, and my Kansas fields, and my fields of Missouri; The

My limbs, my veins dilate; The blood of the world has fill'd me full—my theme is clear at last: —Banner

VIGIL strange I kept on the field one night, When you, my son and my comrade, dropt at my side that day

WHILE my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long, And my head on the pillow rests

See, my cantabile!

Some of the poems—"O Captain! My Captain!"

"O Captain! My Captain!"

"Then before I depart I sweep my eyes o'er the scene fain to absorb it all, / Faces, varieties, postures

" sequence: "Arous'd and angry, I'd thought to beat the alarum, and urge relentless war, / But soon my

fingers fail'd me, my face droop'd and I resign'd myself, / To sit by the wounded and soothe them, or

"Bearing the bandages, water and sponge, / Straight and swift to my wounded I go."

Those three years I consider the greatest privilege and satisfaction . . . the most profound lesson of my

O Captain! my Captain!............................

O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! O CAPTAIN! my captain!

Leave you not the little spot, Where on the deck my captain lies. Fallen cold and dead. O captain!

my captain!

My captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse

connection with Whitman, both formally ("Let me join you again this morning, Walt Whitman, . . . even now my

current songs of beauty, peace, decorum, I cast a reminiscence—(likely 'twill offend you, I heard it in my

their sense, their ears, towards his murmuring, half- caught half-caught words: "Let me return again to my

Give me my old wild battle-life again!"