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evening's readings, skeletonized in the enclosed slip, were given by an ardent lover of both of us—my

table, a knock at the door of our room—which served both as dining and sitting room—was answered by my

O'Connor offered to go out on the search with him; but before they started my husband asked me, aside

Walt had left his "carpet bag" with my husband, on his way down, wishing to be burdened with as little

When I expressed my doubts about his coming to us on his return from camp,— my husband's answer was,

My own first impression after reading the quarto edition of Leaves of Grass, recommended by Emerson to

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

I often wish that I could write you a long letter, & tell you all about us, but as I wrote you, my head

& eyes gave out , & I can write but very little, even to my two sisters,— & we are all that are left

I am indeed alone, both children, my father & mother, all four of my brothers are gone.

But in any case after you get this letter, my address will be care of my nephew in Boston which I will

I shall make a few short stops with nieces & others till I return home, & as my nephew is a fixture,

But I try to keep up a good heart, & not to worry my friends with my troubles.

I have one hope that I am clinging to, and that is that my sister Mrs. Channing may come on.

I send my address on the enclosed slip. With love always— Nelly O'Connor.

I am sorry to tell you that after all my careful economy & saving, the various things into which William

But I have been trying my best to put into order; but must soon drop all & go for a time, or I shall

If ever the people that owe money to William would pay me, I should not be so worried about my daily

It is like taking my life to have to give up a home with no prospect of ever having one again.

So I said, I will keep you informed of my whereabouts. & with love always— Nelly O'Connor. Ellen M.

Traubel in my letter to him for the photograph of William, & also for the pictures of the "laughing Philosopher

Traubel got my letter. How goes it with you? Send a line. With love always— Nelly O'Connor.

Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Thursday, September 12, 1889 and Saturday, September 14, 1889: "My

deal of energy in starting off as he does, & as to his courage it is simply sublime , & he puts all my

I send all but had to separate the bundle, as it was too thick for my envelope.

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

I must now turn my face homeward.

My first visit to William's grave since last July when I went away.

if I had some one to give me a lift in my work, it would be a boon, but I guess my lesson in life is

Night before last I hardly slept any, & as a consequence am not able to use my eyes next day.

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

"The Ghost" is my favorite, & I have read it dozens of times,—& some parts of it even yet I never can

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

So now with my moving, & house-keeping, & getting through with a day in the office, you can say that

My sister Jeannie, Mrs. Channing, will be here before the month ends, I hope.

My plan is, & do you like it?

My plan is to put the six published stories, & the new one, "The Brazen Android" in one volume,—with

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

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

You may know that I am expecting to leave Washington, & give up my home in the place that is dearest

I am getting used to my new abode, & ought to get very well, for my cares are not heavy, & the people

My heart is torn and my sympathies roused as never by anything before at the way our prisoners are treated

We are all very well, I am much better than I was last winter, my summer at the sea-shore & the sea-bathing

had time to rite to you untill now & I have not got much time now the toe is most all healed up but my

foot is swelled so that I can not get my boot on it swelled from walking from the depot out her but

I think I never in my life felt so wholly blue and unhappy about any one's going away as I did and have

One reason that I have not written to you before is that I have been so unhappy I thought my letter would

Our affairs remain as they did when you left, & that is one cause of my delay.

hideous, William forbids my giving any of them away.

Walt that I hope he will come home soon, & see papa, & tell him I send my love to him & a kiss.

life, my thoughts, my feelings, my views— my self in fact, in every way, you seem to have permeated

my whole being.

My friend Mrs.

It is good to have my love for you then rounded by knowing you, and finding my feeling and thought about

Jeannie sends much love to you, so does my sister Jeannie.

the pressure is so great that I can't get the moment to sit down, for as yet I am the only nurse, & my

I try to keep my courage up, & not to look ahead more than I must.

Houghton, Mifflin, 1892), for which Whitman wrote the Preface (which he later included in Good-Bye My

Grand Pacific Hotel Honoured Sir— & Dear Poet— I beg you to accept my appreciative thanks for your great

New York 16th Feby '65 My Dear Walt Whitman: On the receipt of your favor of the 26th ult., I arranged

with Captain Walton for the sending of a box to our dear and brave boys at the Danville Military Prison

Captain Wright does not think the boxes will ever reach our boys—but this shall not prevent my trying

Captain Charles W. Walton was a member of the Fifty-first Regiment, New York State Volunteers.

My Dear Friend— If I may call you so—I wish you peace and joy, and many more years in which to know and

I have received my bible and I think a grate great eal deal of it I think it is very nice indeed.

but pop thinks I had better go to haddonfield I think I will come down next week if i can, I must end my

letter so it is good by my Dear Friend.

I must end my letter now so it is good by bye Elmer E.

To-day my soul is full of the love of the body.

"Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. ∗∗∗∗∗ While they discuss

The first doubt lodged in my mind against the claims of the Christian Church and ministry was the first

To my surprise and horror, they spent the whole time in regaling one another with smutty yarns.

I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven.

because the word used does not suit me, but neither in my head nor in my dictionary was I able to find

Dear Sir: I received your letter of the 11 inst. instant to-day and take pleasure to enclose herewith my

I feel the confidence of me of those friends that you will find no presumption in my writing thus, &

Th 187 6 Walt Whitman Respected Sir: I began several years since the collection of the autographs of my

LOUIS, May 30 189 0 Dear Sir: Your brother, and my friend, Mr Thomas J.

Come, said The Soul, Such verses now, my body, let us write—write thou for me— That when I come again

Whitman's epigraph poem for the 1876 and 1891–92 editions of Leaves of Grass, beginning "Come, said my

friend, my lover, was coming, then o I was happy; each breath tasted sweeter—and all that day my food

The poet’s fluid movement between the singular “my friend, my lover” and the more indefinite “a friend

“I know my words are weapons, full of danger, full of death,” the poet declares in “as I lay with my

“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, / Be not afraid of my body,” says the naked

legs and his tongue was in my bellybutton. and then when he was tickling my fundament just behind the

This book is dedicated to my husband, Larry, my love, my heartbeat, and my favorite dance partner. abbReviaTions

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

my colleagues.

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

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

My hat was all worn out, and Papa sent me a new one, by the post man. I like my new hat.

but I must not wait any longer now, though there is a fog outside & a fog or something of the sort in my

Llwyngwril, a primitive little village, quite away from town- ways & fashions, I stayed for four weeks with my

Having it in my drawer or on the table as I write, it makes me feel as if you yourself had been in the

For my own sake, as well as yours, I wish it were!

thought over it very seriously, besides asking Dr Bucke's opinion about issuing a 2nd Edn at all of my

I expect to go to Boston on Friday or Saturday—after which my address will be to the care of Kennedy

to persuade myself that from this New Year forward everything is to be first-rate with me & with all my

It gives me quite a new conception of my own importance in the world.

(Give him my hearty greetings!)

Just as he was about to recite 'My Captain,' a little girl, the granddaughter of Edmund Clarence Stedman

last three or four weeks, & before returning to London tomorrow I should like to tell you something of my

Before beginning about myself, though,— many thanks for the Lippincott's article.— My Book & I , which

North Sea Interlude," and so it was natural that I should go down to the sea-shore a good deal during my

—then, two or three days ago, I went over to Browney Valley, to see my old friends the coal-miners &

Believe this, of yours most affectionately Ernest Rhys After to-day my address is again Sq.

Camden, 14 th Aug. '89 My dear Walt Whitman, Your welcome p'card of July 23 rd reminds me how the time

has slipped away since my last letter to you.

The practice I had in America, & the vocal exercises that I used to indulge in during my mountain rambles

working men,—chiefly socialists; so I gave them as good an account of Leaves of Grass in connection with my

To my great delight, there proved to be several men there who knew L. of G. & who were able to join with

opposite side of the river, & the sound of fire-bells & galloping horses in the distance, drew me out of my

My American trip seems to have given me a new energy of assimilation too.

Oct. '88 My dear Walt Whitman, Your card was welcomed the other day; but I was sorry it did not give

I suppose these late weeks here have been the happiest of my life,—in the sense of physical delight at

Every day I gather in this way some new association to add to my store; & all the while I am picking

Last week my brother, Percy, who is an actor, came up to town with the news that he was going off to

He sails to-morrow afternoon by the "Norham Castle" from Blackwall, & to-day my Father & Mother, anxious

It is absurd that I have never yet found my way to France.

Yesterday I went down to Blackwall to see my brother stowed safely on board the "Norham Castle."

The other day he & his father drove round here, & in my absence carried off Edith, who had never seen

Camden 3rd Jany. 188 8 Your card of 24 th Dec. came two days ago, not a little to my relief.

He lives in the next street to Cowley St. from which by the way I may have to move shortly as my sister

this at the Reading Room of British Museum, & must end it rather hurriedly having to run off to meet my

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

What with Stedman —who celebrated my last night in America yesterday by toasting me with mint-juleps

perhaps in a day or two I may be able to render them in a better shape, when I write again to tell you of my

Caught in my rhymester's cup from earth's delight Where English fields are green the whole year long,