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the station there) as I am in very delicate health, but will call for it, if you will allow me, on my

the fact that the prophet is so rarely duly appraised in his own country, and that in local circles my

Yet, oh yes, he is very very good and has my interests, literary and otherwise, quite at heart, so it

I trust my ability may equal the time & material before me to compile judiciously and in worthiness the

subject, as it is my desire to do sl .

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

Camden noon Feb: 5 '90 A rare egg & Graham br'd for my breakfast—Y'r good letter rec'd —the sun is out

eye bother, or liability—& there probably is something in that—I have mark'd defection & weakness in my

"A Death-Bouquet" became the last section of Good-Bye My Fancy, which was later reprinted in Complete

Camden Evn'g May 14 '90 Ed, I am decidedly better f'm my second grip —(was a bad 'un)—have been out bet'n

. | May 14 | 8 PM | 90, London | PM | My 16 | 0 | Canada.

present thinking over her life is the only thing that I take pleasure in: indeed I am unable to get my

March 1, 1882, in which he quoted Swinburne's praise of Whitman: "I have by no manner of means relaxed my

If my letters home don't show it, you don't get 'em.

enough to eat & drink, and shelter, in the moderatest limits) any more, since the last four months of my

morning May 3 '87 Dear friend I got home all right Sunday afternoon—had a nice enjoyable ride—enjoyed my

visit anyhow—Yesterday I felt pretty dry, up in my room, & made a glass of drink, water, sugar & vinegar—from

that bottle you gave me—such as I remember my dear mother making sixty years ago, for my father, of

a hot day, when I was a little boy—& my drink went well too—Nothing new of any importance with me—Send

have just written him a few lines—told him ab't Harry —Warm & sunny to-day & I am sitting here with my

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

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

that the authorization in my letter of November 1st to Mr.

of the full volume of my poems.

I cannot & will not consent of my own volition, to countenance an expurgated edition of my pieces.

I feel it due to myself to write you explicitly thus, my dear Mr.

But I guess you will pick out my meaning. Perhaps, indeed, Mr.

written on November 17, 1867: "I shall always hold it one of the truest & most prized distinctions of my

offer of "friendship": "To be honoured by your friendship is as great a satisfaction & distinction as my

Dear Sir I feel that as my brothers friend you have been neglecred but owing to sickness in the family

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.

Washington Jan. 29, 1872 My Dear Redfield, The $25 you sent me last week duly arrived, for which please

accept this Receipt, & my thanks.

firm was in bankruptcy, Redfield noted that the balance due Whitman ($63.45) "will have to go in with my

I think my estate will pay 50 cents on the dollar: hope so at any rate."

I write to them more to my satisfaction, through my poems.

My book is my best letter, my response, my truest explanation of all.

As to my literary situation here, my rejection by the coteries-& my poverty, (which is the least of my

Ed my nurse gets my breakfast & gets it very well.

For my love for you is hardly less than my love for my natural parent.

I saw before me, sitting on the counter, a handsome, burly man, heavily built, and not looking, to my

me as more of a man, more of a democratic man, than the tallest of Whitman's roughs; to the eye of my

love had no bounds—all that my natural fastidiousness and cautious reserve kept from others I poured

Whitman might say to him "'od's my life, Saint Thomas, I am Snug the joiner & no lion, in this poem,

I, for my part, am no believer in the sacredness of the marriage ceremony, can imagine a perfect pure

My Soul !

'Ve clof'led with him .... the yards entangled ...• the cannon touched, 895 My captain lashed fast with

I laughed content when I heard the voice of my little captain, \Ve have not struck, he composedly cried

-I put my arms around them-touch my lips to them .

my Fancy."

But my kind Old Friend you must not think that because I wrote to you and mentioned it, that I wish you

myself in debt six hundred dollars and finally came to the conclusion that it was time I closed up my

business, so I did so about the first of July last, and am now at work at my trade in a Piano Forte

& Melodeon Manufactory and find that it pays me better than business on my own book.

Now I think I have given you a good statement of my situation and hope it will be to your satisfaction

I am a married man but I am not happy for my disposition is not right.

21, 1867, Wilson acknowledged Whitman's reply of April 12, 1867: "I do not want you to misunderstand my

motives in writing to you of my Situation & feelings as I did in my last letter or else I shall have

to be more guarded in my letters to you.

I wrote so because you wanted me to write how I was situated, and give you my mind without reserve, and

cm; These lines appear to be very early ideas connected with the poem first published as Come, said my

, and My Picture-Gallery, are 14 words of notations in Whitman's hand.

I was quite amused to see my letter about the G.A.R. in the Camden paper —not amused I mean but willing

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

The "Rejoinder" was later reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) (see Prose Works 1892, Volume 2: Collect

Near the end of the essay, Whitman writes: "My own opinion has long been, that for New World service

My Dear Friend, W.H.

Piper , using my name.

My love to the O'Connors.

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

See John Townsend Trowbridge, My Own Story (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903), 265–67.

books & the pictures, wh' is a g't relief to me—I send you same mail with this the 2d annex "Good-Bye my

Thirty-one poems from Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy

For more information see Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

My winter's work of lecturing is over now; I have had a very pleasant time of it—though living a rather

I made the last my headquarters, and then went once a week to York, twice to Sheffield and gave a lecture

I am staying here now with my friend Cotterill who has just returned from African explorations.

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

(Carpenter recalls this in his My Days and Dreams, Being Autobiographical Notes [London: G.

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

The Great Laws do not" also includes draft lines that appeared in the poem later titled "Who Learns My

—I lend you my own mouth tongue A black I dart ed like a snake from his mouth.— I My eyes are bloodshot

, they look down the river, A steamboat carries off paddles away my woman and children.— Around my neck

am T The His i ron necklace and the red sores of my shoulders I do not feel mind , h H opples and ball

ankles and tight cuffs at the wrists does must not detain me will go down the river, with the sight of my

bloodshot eyes, go in to the steamboat that paddles off wife woman and child A I do not stop with my

. / How he laughs when I look down the bend after the steamboat that carries away my woman"(1855, p.

even more than I should otherwise have done, to feel myself obliged to say at once that I do not see my

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

holt we puled pulled around for a short time and then I let loose on him and down he went, then came my

The folks are all well, and my-self the same.

I have a moment to think, I don't get much time to think about anyone for when I am not thinking of my

business I am thinking of what I am shielding , I want to try and make a man of my-self, and do what

I will have to stop writing now for my sheat sheet is giving out and I must on to work, so good bye.

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

From that I enter on my 72d year— Walt Whitman here is $2 for the young ones, Eva Eva Stafford Walt Whitman

"Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and was reprinted in Good-Bye My

criticism . . . after full retrospect of his works and life, the aforesaid 'odd-kind chiel' remains to my

My Dearest Friend: Those few words of yours to Herby "tasted good" to us —few, but enough, seeing that

here as by a kind of natural destiny that has to be fulfilled very cheerfully, could I make America my

I say how very highly I prize that last slip you sent me, "A backward glance on my own road"?

"A Backward Glance on My Own Road," The Critic, 4 (5 January 1884), 1–2.

My Dear Mr Whitman: I have many messages for you from your friends in Europe which I promised and so

to come to you, but now I shall not see you till I return; for I am tired of towns and tomorrow set my

My address for a time will be San Francisco and since I cannot see you I should be proud of a letter

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

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

substantial volume—not that I am overwhelmed or even entirely satisfied by it, but as I had not put my

New York, Nov 18 187 8 My Dear Whitman: I am sorry that the pay for that Gathering the Corn article was

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

I am able to get away from my work towards the middle of April, and it would be then that I should undertake

My usual address is 45 Brunswick Square, Brighton.

Your two volumes with my name written in them are my faithful companions.

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

Johnston on September 1, 1887, "He advertises . . . to sell my photo, with autograph.

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

I have never for a moment wavered in my belief in this truth since it burst upon me a veritable sunrise

Whitman on December 21, 1883, sent "A Backward Glance on My Own Road" to The North American Review and

about the 1st of next month—I am getting along favorably, they all say, but have frequent distress in my

head, & my leg is clumsy as ever—I am writing this in the office at my desk—I send some papers to-day

May 9, 1873, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman said: "walter dontdon't send any more papers as i cant read. my

Until you can explain a paving stone, to every ones my perfect satisfaction O Priests , do not try to

. / I intend to reach them my hand and make as much of them as I do of men and women" (1855, p. 64).;

See in particular the lines: "The supernatural of no account . . . . myself waiting my time to be one

It is worth all of my book put together.

I also send you per express paid a couple of jars of my nice currant jam put up by myself fr fruit raised

Grant, the General's father, addressed to my great uncle Granger, (Judge William G. of Ohio very wealthy

Jesse came very near marrying my uncle's sister he says. I may publish the letter. So keep mum .

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

Whitman has written at the bottom of the page in blue pencil: "I rec'd the currants—wh' I eat with my

You will probably receive it on or about Christmas Day & I send it with my best love & fervent wishes

the rest with occasional dips into books, which however have to occupy a very subordinate place in my

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

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

[April 6, 1863] [Dear Brother Walt,] As I was abt putting these in the envelope my eye caught this blank

much of a beauty as ever…well, not only as much, but more so—I believe I weigh about 200 and as to my

face, (so scarlet,) and my beard and neck, they are terrible to behold…like a great wild buffalo, with

now to write a proper letter, but I cannot let the mail go without sending a line or two to express my

constant thoughts of you, & my loving good wishes.

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

was in bankruptcy, Redfield noted that the balance due Walt Whitman ($63.45) "will have to go in with my

I think my estate will pay 50 cents on the dollar: hope so at any rate."

letter from December 29, 1862: "I wish you would write for me something…that I can present, opening my

Chase, however, kept the letter because he wanted an Emerson autograph; see Trowbridge, My Own Story

shall go to the Hall & show myself, & just say publicly a word or so (as I wish to definitely settle my

That same day, he wrote Horace Traubel: "I am over my eyes in work and my right arm is helpless and painfull—it

or giving any very deep or elaborate analysis of them, in connection with the Emerson question, (as my

brain is in a state not allowing thought, argument or study)—but still I will give you my first impressions

Manuscript as first rate , (including the opening part)—My opinion is that you had perhaps better work

it all over, & leave out at least half— About the allusions to me, my off–hand thought is that my name

might be brought in, in one or two places, as foil or suggestive comparison— but my name only , without

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

My dear mother I find in unusual health & spirits, for one of her age.

My brother George is well & hearty. Eddy the same. Mother sends her love to you & Nelly.

quite a part of my pleasure here.

I am writing this in my room at Mrs. Prices.

A. said "Give my love to Mrs. O'Connor, she is a woman I like—Mr.

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

: "Swinton's discovery of the resemblance in form between Leaves of Grass and Blake's poetry, is in my

On the reverse (nyp.00100) is a fragment related to the poem eventually titled Who Learns My Lesson Complete

It was reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892).

the poems in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, later titled A Song for Occupations and Who Learns My