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My dear Friend: Since our conversation this morning it seems to me that there is a desire to get the
I feel the matter so deeply that I have put my thoughts on paper, and now enclose them.
Published Monthly OFFICE OF THE GALAXY No. 39 Park Row, New York , Aug 13 186 7 My dear Sir: I send the
No. 39 PARK ROW, New York, Aug 8 186 7 My dear Sir: I was very much gratified to receive your fine Harvest
Published Monthly OFFICE OF THE GALAXY No. 39 Park Row, New York , Sept 4 186 7 My dear Sir: I spoke
Published Monthly OFFICE OF THE GALAXY No. 39 Park Row, New York , May 15 186 8 My dear Sir: After thinking
EDITORIAL OFFICE OF THE GALAXY, N O . 40 P ARK R OW , New York Mar 4, 186 9 My dear Sir: I am sorry not
Galaxy Office Oct 15 /67 My dear Sir: I am pleased to hear that your article will be ready by the 21st—a
Published Monthly OFFICE OF THE GALAXY No. 39 Park Row, New York , May 2 186 8 My dear Sir: To be in
Published Monthly OFFICE OF THE GALAXY No. 39 Park Row, New York , Oct. 21 186 7 My dear Sir: Your ms
My friend, Jules Laforgue (who died only too prematurely) has already given to the public two of your
In expectation of your kind reply, Sir and dear poet, permit me to assure you of my sympathy in art and
of my profound admiration.
Jany. 16th 1891 My dear Mr Whitman, Will you accept this accompanying package as a sort of kindling wood
cast and it was decided in favor of Walter Whitman after Walt Whitman, America's Poet I have had on my
Dear Sir:— Accompanying this note, I send you a copy of the first volume of my collection "Poetic Works
Please accept it with my compliments and my best wishes for your welfare I am yours very truly, Frank
Walt Whitman, My dear Sir: I am preparing a series of letters for the above newspapers on How to Reach
volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My
.— "Thou seest all things—thou wilt see my grave, Thou wilt renew thy beauty, morn by morn; I, earth
How can my nature longer mix with thine?
Coldly thy rosy shadows bathe me, cold Are all thy lights, and cold my wrinkled feet Upon thy glimmering
My first glimpse of Whitman was under such circumstances that I could not easily forget him.
As I sat listening to the arguments of Andrew and Sewall in my behalf, and of Woodbury against them,
I shall place these and your full-grown volume together, and hand them down to my children I enclose
July 21 1880 My dear Sir: I have long been waiting for an opportunity to invite you to my house here,
I mailed you the programme program some days ago, and now write to invite you to come to my house for
I would have stood on my dig some time longer if George had not brought some religious remarks to bear
—But of course my letter to you was not mailed, and now I have once more to reply to yours.— I am glad
kind and attentive to you, I assure you I did not think much of his bad delivery , but on the contrary my
I am now back again in my old position at 168 Broadway, behind the desk. —So please address me here.
New York April 30th 18 60 Walt, I was very glad indeed to hear from you in answer to my last, and you
to find your business was progressing so favorably, — In accordance with not only your wishes, but my
New York March 21st Your letter in answer to my note came to hand this a.m.
Chelsea Ferry, & enquire for, Charley Hollis, or Ed Morgan mention my name, and introduce yourself as
my friend.— I am obliged to you for your kind offer of sending me a few of the sheets in advance of
But so you know my dear friend they are all real to me—and I often keep them months before I destroy
Many and many a mile have I rode on a Locomotive while in charge of a Freight-train and had you by my
Walt write to me and acknowledge the receipt of this—If you cannot, I shall still keep writing, in my
docks From among all out of all Connected with all and yet distinct from all arises thee Dear Walt—Walt my
I am not a drunkard nor a teetotaler —I am neither honest or nor dishonest I have my family in Brooklyn
cheated nor defrauded, any person out of anything, and yet I feel that I have not been honest to myself— my
family nor my friends One Oclock , the Barque is laden with coal and the carts have come The old old
it seems Centuries)—Father used to tell me I was lazy Mother denied it—and in latter years=(but O' my
own pen, ink, and paper on my own table, in a hired room, warmed by my own fire and lighted by my own
friend the past thou occupiest in my spiritual nature—.
I feel assured you will forgive any remissness of me in writing—My love my Walt is with you alway always
My Father is Dead.
It shall have a place of honor on my walls at home where you are read and loved.
I should not want to leave to my children the name of a Stevens or a Marston .
became acquainted with your writings but your book but I am just out of college, and as yet I can count my
copy of the book for any purpose, I shall feel honored if you will allow me to send it to you with my
Mountain Side," "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," and "O Captain
My Captain!"
My excuse for writing to you is, that it is a matter of the utmost importance to a client of mine.
I express to you my deep appreciation and love for your books—and well wishes for your health.
W. 3 July 1880 My dear Friend I write you one line to ask you if you can do me a little favour favor
A few of my friends, who are poets, have been pleased to do honour to themselves & to Scott, & they have
Whitman: Thank you very much for the "Two Rivulets," which came sparkling, and dancing, and babbling into my
25 Chesham Street S.W 31 January 1881 My good friend, It was a kind thought of yours sending me your
I will not trouble you with more of my views of this subject!
S.W. 15 June 1880 My dear Friend You see I venture to salute you, & to write to you in the same strain
His son, & my son-in-law, Lionel Tennyson, lives in London for some ten months out of the twelve, at
She is re-editing the Life of Blake, & I have a few of his letters, & she has been once or twice in my
If you have not received it, may I send it to you again, when I will explain my wishes?
explained that while I was away he 'got a very raspy note from Oldach practically asking that I take my
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
Whitman, Though I had to leave my place of country sojourn yesterday before hearing from you.
I shall take my chance of finding you at home early on Sunday afternoon—say about 3 o'clock—unless I
Since I first read your poems years ago now they have always had a great influence on my thoughts and
I have found out the truth of your words too from my short experience of life in deed as well as in thought
Your Leaves of Grass I keep with my Shakespeare and my Bible and it is from these three that I have got
sketch of Elias Hicks is very pleasant to see, as like yourself I am proud of having Friends among my
I am going to send you a pamphlet which has in it a sketch of William Grimm by my best friend and fellow-worker
for I should like to see you in the flesh, but that is in the hands of the powers, I do not know how my
But I have no right to trouble you with myself or my concerns and I will stop here wishing you the best
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
stove—an edge suspicioning itself out—was one of the Fredricks (N.Y.) portraits of which—W. seeing it in my
Whitman went on to guess that the photograph “must be 12 or 15 years old—yes, taken after my sickness
, on one of my trips to New York.”
appears early, in section 2, as an image of oppression ("O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my
Lilacs," all disparate elements have been reconciled: "Lilac and star and bird twined with the chant of my
Early in 1889, Whitman listed Byron and his poetry among those poets and works referred to as "my daily
In that work Whitman stated with disarming frankness, "I have not gain'd the acceptance of my own time
R.W.FrenchReading, Whitman'sReading, Whitman's"My reading," Whitman remarked to Horace Traubel in 1888
Although one additional poem, "Come, said my Soul," would later be restored to the Leaves as epigraph
Between the poems and the essay, filling pages 405–422, appeared the second annex, "Good-Bye my Fancy
of his long labors: "L. of G. at last complete—after 33 y'rs of hackling at it, all times & moods of my
work, books especially, has pass'd; and waiting till fully after that, I have given (pages 423–438) my
by the 1889 text of the poems of Leaves of Grass; the two annexes, "Sands at Seventy" and "Good-Bye my
that will become the envy of the world.Whitman sees these productive fields as "the true arenas of my
"Softly I lay my right hand upon you," he proclaims as he prepares the appointed one for a celestial
Fittingly, 1892, the year of Whitman's death, witnessed the poem "Good-Bye my Fancy!
Against a backdrop of fluctuation, a continuity in Whitman's thought emerges, and with "Good-Bye my Fancy
My acquaintance with 'Leaves of Grass' dates from my early university days some ten years ago, when having