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Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 20 September 1891

  • Date: September 20, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

A review of Whitman's Good-Bye My Fancy was published in The Literary World on September 12, 1891.

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

As in a Swoon

  • Date: between 1872 and 1876
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included in any subsequent editions of Leaves of Grass, Whitman did include it in the 1891 volume Good-Bye My

First, to me

  • Date: about 1890
Text:

The essay was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) before finally being collected in Complete Prose

hands are cut by the

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

revision, appeared in the eleventh poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, later titled Who Learns My

In a poem make the

  • Date: before 1860
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by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with And there, 'The Scout', and Drops of my

Walt Whitman by Alexander Gardner, ca. 1864 - 1865

  • Date: ca. 1864 - 1865
  • Creator(s): Gardner, Alexander
Text:

Whitman said this photo was "one of the best . . . my mother's favorite picture of me" (Horace Traubel

In the course of the

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Have I hasten to inform you it is just as good to die, and I know it; I know it For I take my death with

the dying, And my birth with the new-washed babe Whitman probably drafted this manuscript in the early

Annotations Text:

pass death with the dying, and birth with the new-washed babe . . . . and am not contained between my

Whatever I say of myself

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

manuscript appeared as the following, in the poem eventually titled "Song of Myself": "All I mark as my

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 2 March 1864

  • Date: March 2, 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

for somehow I was thinking from your letters lately whether you was as well as usual or not—write how my

army this spring, to the utmost—they are sending down many to their reg'ts that are not fit to go, in my

Washington—We have had quite a snow storm, but is clear & sunny to-day here, but sloshy, I am wearing my

Annotations Text:

On March 6, George wrote to his mother: "I found my trunk up at Fort Schuyler all right the morning I

James Knowles to Walt Whitman, 21 February 1890

  • Date: February 21, 1890
  • Creator(s): James Knowles
Text:

Feb 21st 1890 To / Walt man Eq My Dear Sir I apologize heartily for my delay in replying to your kind

the page of "poemets" 'old age echoes' —which you were so good as to offer me at the price of £20— My

—& secondly my unwillingness to do the unwelcome & ungracious thing implied in my being unable to avail

I am so extremely sorry not to see my way to utilizing them for my Review & I accordingly return herewith

Annotations Text:

of four short poems, appeared in Lippincott's Magazine in March 1891 and were reprinted in Goodbye My

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 25 September 1877

  • Date: September 25, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 14 August 1877

  • Date: August 14, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

I want to get up to see you once a week at least and have a good time, for I cant let my selfe myself

Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 6 August 1877

  • Date: August 6, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 13 November 1877

  • Date: November 13, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 29 January 1878

  • Date: January 29, 1878
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 20 April 1887

  • Date: April 20, 1887
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

My friend of whom I spoke is in the cutlery trade, a razor grinder—very warmhearted free & natural.

I still keep the place going at Millthorpe, & spend part of my time there—and it is good to get out into

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.], quite 'uneducated' in the ordinary sense... but well-grown and finely built" (Edward Carpenter, My

Harry Buxton Forman to Walt Whitman, 7 May 1891

  • Date: May 7, 1891
  • Creator(s): Harry Buxton Forman
Text:

John's Wood London N.W. 7 May 1891 My dear Walt Whitman, At the moment of my departure for Vienna, where

I am to assist at the Postal Union Congress, your birthday comes to my mind.

may easily be prevented from sending a letter so as to arrive on the right day, and must therefore do my

high day also to me as the anniversary of the first and only performance of "The Cenci," I send you my

Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 15 March 1885

  • Date: March 15, 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I am writing this Sunday afternoon up in my room by wood fire.

Annotations Text:

27, in which she spoke of "bronchial & asthmatic troubles" and of her lasting affection—"you are in my

Walt Whitman to John White Alexander, 20 February 1886

  • Date: February 20, 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

delighted to have been the means of giving to future generations a portrait of you that is certainly one of my

Walt Whitman to Joseph M. Stoddart, 9 June 1891

  • Date: June 9, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

referring to the manuscript for "Walt Whitman's Last" (a one-page piece on his last miscellany Good-Bye My

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 18 September 1863

  • Date: September 18, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Whitman included this entry among "verbatim extracts from letters home to my mother in Brooklyn, the

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 7 February 1882

  • Date: February 7, 1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

pages 166 to 168) after an interval I am satisfied with it, and am willing to let those sections of my

Annotations Text:

This draft letter is endorsed: "Letter sent Dr Bucke—with his return'd MS | My letter to Dr Bucke | Feb

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 18 June [1883]

  • Date: June 18, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

In the margin of a copy, however, Whitman wrote: "my guess (at random) is that John Swinton is the writer

Walt Whitman to Margaret S. Curtis, 4 October 1863

  • Date: October 4, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Sq Hospital, Sunday evening Oct 4 Dear Madam, Your letter reached me this forenoon with the $30 for my

the midst of those it was sent to aid—& best by a sample of actual hospital life on the spot, & of my

in the way of thanks—is a country boy—always smiles & brightens much when I appear—looks straight in my

face & never at what I may have in my hand for him—I mention him for a specimen as he is within reach

of my hand & I can see that his eyes have been steadily fixed on me from his cot ever since I began

Annotations Text:

After Whitman gave this letter to Horace Traubel on July 27, 1888, he observed: "My main motive would

with surprises—with fancy turns of speech—with unusual, unaccustomed words—but to say them—to shoot my

Walt Whitman to Lavinia E. Ream, 17 July [1871?]

  • Date: July 17, [1871?]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Vinnie Ream, My dear friend, I would like to call on you, with an acquaintance of mine, John Swinton,

Annotations Text:

I could convey no idea to you of how it affects my soul.

I got it, looked into it with wonder, and felt that here was something that touched on depths of my humanity

Walt Whitman to Charles Warren Stoddard, 12 June 1869

  • Date: June 12, 1869
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In answer to your request, I send you my picture—it was taken three months since.

Farewell, my friend. I sincerely thank you, & hope some day to meet you.

Annotations Text:

He speaks it over and over, manipulating my body unconciouslyunconsciously, as it were, with bountiful

mats, and at night sometimes waken to find him watching me with earnest, patient looks, his arm over my

Walt Whitman to John Townsend Trowbridge, 8 February 1864

  • Date: February 8, 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Anna Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Harlakendend Gilchrist | Anna Gilchrist | William Michael Rossetti
Text:

Gilchrist,and the intimacy which my brother,my friend Mr.

"My great anxiety about my wife lastsstill.

"My Dear Mrs.

"My Dear Mrs.

My Dear Mrs.

[Who wills with his own brain]

  • Date: about 1855
Text:

of Grass, named Lesson Poem in 1856 and finally, beginning with 1871's Passage to India, Who Learns My

American Poets

  • Date: 1850–1891
Text:

Old Poets and the New Poetry in Pall Mall Gazette (17 November 1890), before it appeared in Good-Bye My

To Walt Whitman, America

  • Date: 2004
  • Creator(s): Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

mouth.—— I My eyes are bloodshot, they look down the river, A steamboat carries off paddles away my woman

beard, and reached till you held my feet."

Oh my free, proud, secure soul, where are you?"

'The moment my eyes fell on him I was content.'"

My only dread is lest my love should blind me, & my heart whisper "Tomorrow" when my reason says "Today

Little Jane

  • Date: December 7, 1846
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"My child!" she cried, in uncontrollable agony, "O! my child!"

This sentence and the preceding one, beginning "My child," first appeared, with minor differences, in

first sentence was revised further for publication as "Little Jane:" in "The Reformed," it reads "'My

she cried, in uncontrollable agony, 'my child! you die!'" Then there was silence awhile.

Annotations Text:

.; This sentence and the preceding one, beginning "My child," first appeared, with minor differences,

first sentence was revised further for publication as "Little Jane:" in "The Reformed," it reads "'My

she cried, in uncontrollable agony, 'my child! you die!'"

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 15 December 1863

  • Date: December 15, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

. & I am not with him any more—he has moved his office to his private room—I am writing this in my room

456 Sixth st—but my letters still come to Major's care, they are to be addrest same as ever, as I can

early, went down through the market, it is quite a curiosity—I bought some butter, tea, &c—I have had my

breakfast here in my room, good tea, bread & butter &c— Mother, I think about you all more than ever

George—I have no doubt the 51st is still at Crab Orchard — Mother, I hope you will try to write—I send you my

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led the explosive Jeff to exclaim in a letter to Walt from December 15, 1863: "I love Mat as I love my

There would be but few tears shed on my part I can tell you. . . .

wrote Mother abt getting Jess in the Asylum—It does not seem to meet with her wishes—when I wrote you my

Walt Whitman to Dr. John Johnston, 18 June 1891

  • Date: June 18, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 28 March 1880

  • Date: March 28, 1880
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

I have long had it on my mind to write and ask you about the possibility of publishing a cheaper edition

I have not felt it a 'new birth of the soul' merely , I felt that his poems were the food for which my

When you see Harry Stafford give him my love and say I am going to send him a photo: and hope he will

Annotations Text:

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

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

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 12 November 1890

  • Date: November 12, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Nov: 12 '90 Cloudy wet & dark—mild temperature—y'rs of 9th rec'd last evn'g —Horace here—Shall call my

little 2d annex " Good Bye my Fancy " after a little piece in it—Tom Harned's mother is dead 65 y'rs

Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 21 September 1891

  • Date: September 21, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Inscription at the entrance of Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 1860–1867
Text:

of the lines only to reintroduce them in Sands at Seventy (1888), under the title Small the Theme of My

Both One's-self I Sing and Small the Theme of My Chant appeared in the 1892 edition of Leaves of Grass

John T. Trowbridge to Walt Whitman, 12 February 1864

  • Date: February 12, 1864
  • Creator(s): John T. Trowbridge | Horace Traubel
Text:

Somerville February 12, 1864 My dear Walt Whitman.

I have seen the new moon over my right shoulder to some purpose lately.

Give my love to the O'Connors. Good bye. Your friend, J. T. Trowbridge John T.

Annotations Text:

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

On October 18, 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.

Of the O'Connors, Thomas Jefferson Whitman wrote on June 13, 1863: "I am real glad, my dear Walt, that

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 14 January 1888

  • Date: January 14, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

been very bleak & cold here but better & sunny to day—I am quite unwell, but keep up & around & eat my

meals in moderation—(an old fellow who comes here said to me as I was eating my supper "No extremes

Annotations Text:

On January 13, 1888, Burroughs wrote: "My domestic skies are not pleasant & I seem depressed & restless

Indeed I am thinking strongly of selling my place. I am sick of the whole business of housekeeping.

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

lines of greeting in Munyon's Illustrated World, combining as they do the cradle and evening song of my

My brother writers have been very generous to me and I heartily thank them for it" (see also Horace Traubel

Whitman, Walt, poet, was born May 31

  • Date: 1888
Text:

Portions of this manuscript appeared in Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings, first published in Good-Bye My

[Which leads me to another point]

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

This manuscript contributed to American's Bulk Average, which first appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891

The New York Daily Graphic

  • Date: 2014
  • Creator(s): Susan Belasco
Annotations Text:

"Come, Said My Soul" was reprinted in the New York Daily Tribune, 19 February 1876, and on the title

for lect on Literature

  • Date: 1850s or 1860s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

series of lectures & readings &c. through different cities of the north, to supply myself with funds for my

Annotations Text:

series of lectures & readings &c. through different cities of the north, to supply myself with funds for my

Walt Whitman to Ernest Rhys, 13 October 1886

  • Date: October 13, 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 13 May 1864

  • Date: May 13, 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

those terrible long lists—Still there is a sufficient sprinkling of deeply distressing cases—I find my

Annotations Text:

I lost nearly half of my Co. but we won the fight . . .

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 28 December 1890

  • Date: December 28, 1890
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

I send you a little box of confections by Adams Exp. with my love.

Annotations Text:

Critic of November 28, 1890 (p. 282) printed a paragraph about Whitman's forthcoming volume Good-Bye My

Sidney Morse to Walt Whitman, 25 December 1887

  • Date: December 25, 1887
  • Creator(s): Sidney Morse | Sidney H. Morse
Text:

You should see my old mother— spry today, gets about without a stick, not bowed, nor over much wrinkled

They all came down, my brothers, sister, & the three children, & didn't get back to bed again till past

I find my brother a very democratic individual—rather opinionated & too "damn sure" to get on easy with

The first my brother said when I showed him the Hicks picture was—"He's the man who said the blood of

Annotations Text:

Traubel he later said: "I can see defects; this forehead, for instance, is not quite as it should be; but my

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 4 October 1877

  • Date: October 4, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 27 November 1877

  • Date: November 27, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

one to talk too unless he is here, everything is as still as the dead of night, not a sound reaches my

Annotations Text:

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

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