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Kennedy has not crossed my sight very recently; I hope to spend an evening with him before I leave.

young fellows over there, who have written lately, have also sent greetings & love, to which adding my

My dear Walt Whitman, The good ship 'Crystal' landed me safe at Leith a fortnight & more ago, after a

From the Castle, which overlooks the whole place, I had an inspiring vision of the past on my first afternoon

than usually unwell, but Walter Scott's people tell me that they have had better news, which relieves my

The discussion after my paper, in which Sanborn took a main part, was full of interest, & there was a

general agreement with my position, & that part based on Leaves of Grass in especial.

My dear Walt Whitman, I was very glad to have your postcard two or three days ago, & to find that you

My work—editing &c., made me come away at last sooner than I wished to.

through a quiet & picturesque cwm or valley,—so reaching this place, Carmarthen, where I stay with my

have been dipping more & more into old Welsh romance & poetry, of late; eking out with a dictionary my

you, but I have a bad habit of putting off things—as you know, & week after week slips by & accuses my

This remissness is very much of a part with the rest of my story of late.

Opposite my window the birds kick up a great row in the branches, as they discuss the delicate question

I believe I even blushed a little to find my lines so bravely in evidence.

For my own part, I feel now that concentration is the one thing that I lack.

T O Walt Whitman 24 May 18 90 Greeting, my dear Poet, for your 71 st birthday—now so close at hand,—greeting

I trust the new year's voyage will at least be less painful,—free from such vexations as that of my Lady

Later when I got back here to my rooms, & read your reference to the slips again, I realised that if

He , I daresay, is not altogether wrong about my other self, who is possessed at times with the itch

I believe I last wrote to you from Carmarthen, where I stayed with my dear grand-parents, making excursions

thoughts, (as I dropped with ready strides down those Welsh mountains at nightfall, or arm-in-arm with my

Here my Uncle Percival, who is a Naturalist & Poultry-fancier, among other things, has a house almost

series of poets was last year begun by Walter Scott the publisher under the occasional editorship of my

and in their list a month or two after my arrival in London as a student of life & letters this year,

I saw rather to my astonishment your name amid the rest, & feeling that in some ways I had a special

As for my own share, all I really care about is to procure a serviceable popular edition, giving all

I feel very much inclined to say a great deal more about my hopes and ideals, but to-night perhaps it

"The sea-wind & the sea Made all my soul in me A song for ever!"

by the way, to say that a note has come to say a package (of portraits presumably) from you, awaits my

I shall be able now to get on with my article for the 'Scottish Art Review' as soon as I am back in town

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

Your card of the 24th came two days ago, not a little to my relief.

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 Whitman, I have just been reading your lines in the "Herald" for this morning, which hold

My adventures since leaving you have not been very startling, but they have been full of everyday life

Yesterday my good friend Cyrus Butler, a kind & wealthy old gentleman, took me quite a round of studios

Bucke's place on Wednesday, where I will look to send you a further note on my doings.

I have good news of my brother at last, & so am free to sail for England in a fortnight.

London To 2 d March '89 My dear Walt Whitman, During the past day or two I have been arranging your portraits

between the lines, feeling all the time as if I can still see you in your great arm-chair—as during my

It is this impression that I must try to convey as far as may be in my article in the S. A.

So my instinct for life & the open road grows stronger every day. "Right Jack Health!"

I believe I told you that my sister Edith was with me here.

Vistas completed in turn, my cup will be overflowing indeed.

talk with such an one often, & I am sorry that the C's are going away to the country for Easter for my

If you have, I wish you would give me a line of introduction to him for my brother Bertie (Albert) who

Next week (as you will see by my enclosed circular) I am to speak in Chickering Hall on Literary London—rather

If I came, I should have to send letters to the papers here, & perhaps lecture too, to pay my way; for

I come to my last halfpenny indeed almost every week, & am getting quite used to the condition at last

Dear Sir It is my birthday and I am so grateful to you for the comradeship of Leaves of Grass that I

My mother and sisters have just reached New York The girls are quite young and going to give Recitations

Your poems have come to me anew —here in Rome—and have revived and deepened my consciousness of great

I have my studies here—for I am a painter.

—have been out in my wheel chair for a 40 minute open air jaunt (propell'd by WF. my sailor boy nurse

) —& now 4pm Nov. 14 '89 waiting for my supper to be bro't— Transcribed from digital images of the original

Dec. 29, 1890 My Dear Friend, Thinking of you and wondering how your Christmas was spent has tempted

Please accept my thanks for the $2 which you sent the children.

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

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

"My father was a carpenter and came into that trade by inheritance.

I had begun to think of making my fortune as a builder.

But my subsequent acquaintance with him taught me not to be too hasty in making up my mind about people

I keep up my spirits, but my strength won't stand any extra demands.

Captain, Oh, My Captain."

Whitman:— I send you a little token of my esteem as a birthday present.

as most convenient If possible, kindly let me know your decision in respect to my proposal to select

to direct you to take the same course in regard to the Fenian arms at Rouse's Point, as indicated in my

Walt Whitman, I owe to you my thanks for many strong, beautiful, bracing words and thoughts of yours—thoughts

that have opened my mind to new possibilities, larger, truer things.

May my right-hand wither if I don't tell the world before another week, what one woman thinks of you.

sentences of "To Soar" were transcribed directly from a two-page, unpublished prose fragment entitled "My

he wrote: "O I must not close without telling you the highly important intelligence that I have cut my

hair & beard—since the event, Rosecrans, Charleston, &c &c have among my acquaintances been hardly mentioned

Similarly, he wrote to Hugo Fritsch: "I have cut my beard short, & hair ditto: (all my acquaintances

In general, attire became more formal and tended toward dark, somber colors (see Reynolds, "'My Book

(See Ted Genoways, "'Scented herbage of my breast': Whitman's Chest Hair and the Frontispiece to the

." ***** "O despairer, here is my neck, You shall not go down! Hang your whole weight upon me."

My moral constitution may be hopelessly tainted or—too sound to be tainted, as the critic wills, but

, Earth of the limpid grey of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake! Far swooping elbowed earth!

The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul."

———Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance ."

For America, autumn implies harvest, bounty, and growth; for Whitman, a time when "my soul is rapt and

originally appeared in the first edition of Leaves (1855): "There Was a Child Went Forth" and "Who Learns My

He delighted in making "acquaintances among the captains, boatmen, or other characters" (Complete 1201

JackField"Not Heaving from my Ribb'd Breast Only" (1860)"Not Heaving from my Ribb'd Breast Only" (1860

Adhesiveness," which the poet addresses in "Not Heaving" as the "pulse of my life," is a term from phrenology

"Not Heaving from my Ribb'd Breast Only" (1860)

I have read "As a strong bird on pinions free" and can hardly express my admiration for your poetry.

if you would be kind enough to put your autograph in it and I hope you will not think it immodest in my

As he once told Edward Carpenter: "There is something in my nature furtive like an old hen!

My Captain!”).

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

I am running on my nerve, I am running on my spinal cord!

my life.

My Captain!

He argued vehemently that "a new Literature," and especially "a new Poetry, are to be, in my opinion,

caused something of a scandal; Traubel recalled that neighbors went to his mother and "protested against my

WALT 1819–1919DEDICATED TO THE DEMOCRATIC IDEALS OFWALT WHITMANBYHORACE TRAUBEL AND FLORA MACDONALD"MY

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

My Captain!"

My Captain!

Captain, 0 my Cap tain" surely one ofthe most tender and beautiful poems in any language.6 The misquotation

I sing the songfmy wallpaper, my ceiling, my floor, my doors, my windows, my around-rooms, under- and

My Captain!

decade of his life, he collected royalties on sales of his photographs and had a taste of celebrity: "my

," Whitman writes in "Song of Myself"; "Your facts are useful, and yet they are not my dwelling, / I

but enter by them to an area of my dwelling" (section 23).BibliographyLindfors, Bernth.

experts in native languages had contested his definition of "Yonnondio," but he stood firm: "I am sure of my

I took my M.A. in 1947 and my Ph.D. in 1949, the year after Lucy took hers.

I want to conclude by describing my encounter with someone my wife and I met when we visited Whitman's

body to meet my lover the sea, I will not touch my flesh to the earth as to other flesh to renew me.

I am grateful to my colleague Jerome Loving for calling my attention to this essay by Allen, an early

I thank my friend and former colleague Kenneth Price, who directed this dissertation, for calling my

his life, he could still recall the excitement of seeing this first article in print: "How it made my

heart double-beat to see my piece on the pretty white paper, in nice type" ( , 1:287).

to the President in the midst of his cabinet, and Good day my brother, to Sambo, among the hoes of the

lesson complete" ("Who Learns My Lesson Complete"), "Clear the way there Jonathan" ("A Boston Ballad

Commenced putting to press for good, at the job printing office of my friends, the brothers Rome, in

I make my way, / I am stern, acrid, large, undissuadable—but I love you, / I do not hurt you more than

edition of 500," he wrote to his friend William O'Connor, adding that "I could sell that number by my

My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Door-Yard Bloom'd."

And he found particular significance in the cover: "This is my design—I conceived it."

Body, set to them my name," followed by a blank space where Whitman added his signature in each copy

whoexplainedthemysteriesoftheuniverse—because“Themost they offer for mankind and eternity [is] less than a spirt of my

“A sprit of my own seminal wet”: Spermatoid Design in Walt Whitman’s 1860 Leaves of Grass

with the portraits & the other extracts from your writings — With respect & high esteem Believe me My

Apl 13 th 18 70 My dear sir, I fear that the "Passage to India" is a poem too long and too abstract for