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My dear Mr.

Church, My friends, If convenient, please remit to me, here, a check for $25 in pay for "O Star of France

1309 Fifth av. near 86th st Thursday afternoon May 8 My Dear Reid Can you use this for Saturday's paper

Camden, New Jersey July 7th, 1876 My dear Reid: I send a piece for the paper, on Custer's death.

My dear Reid, Hasn't this got vim enough—from your point of view, even as editor of the paper—to make

one could fail then [during the War] to admire his zeal and devotion, and I am afraid that at first my

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Sept 30 My dear Reid Yes—put my name to the piece, if you like it

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Nov 27 My dear Reid If convenient please send me the pay for the

Camden May 23d My dear Reid Couldn't you feel to print the above say for instance in the Bits of Criticism

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Sept 21 My dear Reid, Won't the herewith do for an editorial these

It was later reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman, [New York: G.P.

Camden N Jersey July 18 '76 My dear Reid, The cheque has reached me $10. as pay for the little poem —

London Ontario Canada June 17 '80 My dear Reid Herewith find a letter for the paper.

—& having a good time—fine country, many fine people here—I go all about leisurely but this will be my

Monday afternoon April 14 1879. 1309 Fifth av: near 86th st My dear Reid— As you might possibly have

room in the paper—& a full report might hit—I send you a complete copy of my lecture, to take the chances

to-morrow's paper —(As I calculate, it would make about three quarters of a column in your small type) — —My

plan is to break the tedium of my half invalidism from time to time (& also collect a few shekels) by

1309 Fifth av: near 86th street Monday noon May 12 My dear Reid If you put this in type perhaps you could

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey July 12 My dear Reid I forward you same mail with this the little

"Passage to India" we spoke of, with the "Captain" bit in.

If convenient have the pay for my letter of July 4 in Tribune ($20) sent me here.

I am well, for me—All the better for my pleasant NY jaunt.

Whitman mentioned in his Commonplace Book this letter and Passage to India (1871), in which "O Captain

My Captain!" appears (Charles E.

beautiful & interesting Bugle Echoes which has just reached me—Please send this to F F Browne with my

Mountain Side," "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," and "O Captain

My Captain!"

Dear Sir: I have been badly pulled by the heat—am sick—(home here with my mother)—& would respectfully

to substitute the services of the bearer Walter Godey , in the office, for the present, instead of my

I would ask you to put him at my desk and give him a trial—on some letters first, before giving him the

My friends, I shall return to Washington either on Wednesday next, 15th or Thursday , 16th—Shall probably

(My own books, poems & prose, have been a direct & indirect attempt at contribution.)

Brooklyn May 11, 1870 Sir: The hurt on my hand has not healed.

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, March 4, 1868 My dear Mr.

I can fully join in the same testimony, as he treated, as physician or surgeon, many a case under my

I send you, dear sir, my friendliest respects & well wishes, Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to W. O.

Jan 3 18 72 Dear Sirs: Wishing to close up matters, I solicit, as early as convenient, an answer to my

letter of about two weeks since, (in response to yours of a day or two previous) in relation to my books

1870, letter to Trowbridge, Whitman announced that he had "engaged in electrotyping a new edition of my

year or more ago of some Boston publisher, or bookseller, who was willing (or perhaps wished) to sell my

Camden, New Jersey—U S America Sept 7 I send you to-day by mail, to same address as this card, my Volume

Engine House & Depot, five engines burnt, bad luck— —Van, show this letter to your father and mother—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

London Ontario Canada Dear Sir I send you a little circular adv: advertisement of my books—I sell them

send them from here—by mail—I shall be here till middle of August —after that at Camden, New Jersey, my

Camden NJ April 8 1887 Yes—I hereby give my consent to the inclusion of the four pieces mentioned in

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey March 26 1886 Dear Sir Yours of 26th rec'd—I send my heartiest thanks

Camden N J — Nov: 24 '91 Best thanks my friend for y'r kind invitation, but I am in an almost entirely

I shall keep it by me for my own reading, & to refresh my memory of those turbulent days.

Camden NJ Dec. 16 '84 Dear friend Please convey to the Marquis de Leuville my thanks for his beautiful

and the introduction, called "Entre-Nous," begins, "I had therefore better make some apologies for my

. & skips the poor points—I wish the writer of the notice to have this card, with my best gratitude.

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

Since Good–bye My Fancy was widely reviewed at this time, it is almost impossible to determine which

I am not sure you will remember me, or my occasional salute to you, in Washington.

the Attorney General that in any changes in the Solicitor Treasury's office, I be not disturbed in my

position as clerk in that office—all my duties to the government being & having been thoroughly & regularly

performed there, by a substitute, during my illness.

am well as usual—always glad to hear from you—hope we shall be together again one of these days—give my

who have set up & electrotyped a new, complete & markedly fuller edition (with several new pieces) of my

at once, with the request that you will immediately have the book entered for copyright & secured in my

I am under many obligations in the past to my friend your Josiah Child, & should like to have this matter

Trübner & Company, Dear Sirs, Please make out acc't account of sales of my books, Leaves of Grass &c.

for the closing year, & remit me am't amount due, by mail here, by draft payable to my order.

Thanks for your letter, statement of acc't. account , of my books Leaves of Grass &c. which have just

Forty One Dollars, fifty-four cents, on acc't of sales of my books, in 1873.

Camden New Jersey U S America Oct 1 '78— Dear Sirs Yours of Sept 14 with $14 for Two Sets (4 Vols) of my

to hand —Thank you sincerely— I to-day forward to Wiley & Sons, New York, Twelve Sets (24 Vols) of my

. — I have come on here, for a few days on my jaunt to the Thousand Islands at the mouth of St Lawrence—shall

will do me good)—This is a splendid city, right on Lake Ontario—I shall be back in September—I enjoy my

Hiskey and Captain Respegius Edward Lindell worked for the Camden ferries (Specimen Days, ed.

[I approve of your attempt to translate certain of my poems into the German tongue.

Indeed, arrogant as the statement may seem, I had more than my own native land in view when I was composing

I had also in mind, as one of my objects, to send a hearty greeting to these lands in America's name.

Dr Knortz & send you—although he has of course notified you to same effect—I am still living here in my

spirits—but get around with great difficulty, (or rather I should say hardly at all) & have been stricken in my

My dear Sir; The translations of your poems are now ready for the printer and the MS will sail for Europe

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

My satisfaction with your proposed German trans[lation] increases the more you unfold it, and I think

In the whole matter I freely trust to your intuitions and 'cuteness as to meanings, my dear friend—you

My letter to Mr Lee was also as a preface to the Russian translation.

much of the internationality element (sentiment) which I have intended as one of the leading fibres of my

My guess would be that when fairly afloat it might have quite as much sale here in the United States

endorsement of your friendly enterprise, translating and publishing in Germany, some of the poems of my

It has not been for my own country alone —ambitious as the saying so may seem— that I have composed that

One purpose of my chants is to cordially salute all foreign lands in America's name.

in the Feinberg Collection, Whitman wrote in 1886 or 1888: "Have had this little Vol. at hand or in my

—There are no later or fuller prints of my books than those you have —I contemplate a final compacted

Dear brother, You did not write any answer to my last two letters, now quite a while ago, still I will

I still remain here in Washington, finding just about work enough to pay my expenses.

he has returned from his furlough, he told me a few days ago he had written to you, & had sent you my

best respects—I told him he must never send my respects to you but always my love.