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Search : of captain, my captain!

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something that presents the sentiment

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1856
Text:

The first several lines of that poem were revised and published as My Picture-Gallery in The American

In the course of the

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
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pass death with the dying, and birth with the new-washed babe . . . . and am not contained between my

Walt Whitman by Napoleon Sarony, July 1878

  • Date: July 1878
  • Creator(s): Sarony, Napoleon
Text:

establishment" that he "had a real pleasant time" (nyp.00407).Of this photo, Whitman said, "It is one of my

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 18 August [1886]

  • Date: August 18, [1886]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Whitman is referring to his article "My Book and I," which was published in Lippincott's (January 1887

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 10 January 1888

  • Date: January 10, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Jan 10 '88 Am sitting here by the fire alone early afternoon & will write you a few lines—have had my

machine—After a dark storm, (with snow,) nearly a week, the sun is out this afternoon & there is a half-thaw—My

Annotations Text:

Nothing delights me more—my limitations are so many.

Walt Whitman to [the Editor of the New York Herald], 16 December 1887

  • Date: December 16, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to James Redpath, 12 October 1863

  • Date: October 12, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Curtis, and the other friends, I will briefly say, tells daily & nightly & shall tell to the best of my

power, upon my dear boys here, in hospital.

Good by, my friend. Walt Whitman to James Redpath, 12 October 1863

Annotations Text:

After this sentence Whitman deleted the following: "Do you want to print my new little volume of poetry

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 24 January 1878

  • Date: January 24, 1878
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

you will , you I bit this I am in such a hurry I hav have to write fast but I will show you some of my

Annotations Text:

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

Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 19 December 1877

  • Date: December 19, 1877
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

My term's work is over and I am going away for a month, to Cambridge & to Brighton.

Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Edward Cattell, 24 January 1877

  • Date: January 24, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Ed you too have my unalterable love, & always shall have.

Annotations Text:

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

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 10 September 1886

  • Date: September 10, 1886
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

My dear Walt: I felt my Book would not be complete with out at least one or two of your letters and though

I therefore asked W M Rossetti if he (on reading my M.S.S.) could look out two of your most characteristic

literary interest, one that will help the readers to understand you; hence, I shall venture to print it in my

B. sings discordantly in my ears—but in truth I was and am angry at his cool request to hand over your

My M.S. has been cast & makes 430 pages!

Annotations Text:

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

Jeannette L. and Joseph B. Gilder to Walt Whitman, 19 October 1888

  • Date: October 19, 1888
  • Creator(s): Jeannette L. and Joseph B. Gilder
Annotations Text:

names, sometimes Southerners, sometimes Western or other writers of only one or two pieces,) deserve in my

Walt Whitman to John Swinton, 14 September 1871

  • Date: September 14, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Sept. 14, 18 71 My dear John Swinton: I have rec'd your note & enclosures.

Annotations Text:

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

William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 1 January 1885

  • Date: January 1, 1885
  • Creator(s): William Michael Rossetti
Text:

Specimen Days vol. volume right thro: finding various new things, & continual pleasure in reviewing my

My mother is still with us—aged nearly 85: health & facul ties sound on the whole, but naturally bowed

I have also scanned with a good deal of attention (that of complete re-reading) my old & constant admiration

, the Leaves of Grass I observe that some edition (I think the Philadelphia edition is named, but my

is not under my hand at the moment for reference) is mentioned as the only final & complete form of Leaves

Annotations Text:

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

Allen Upward to Walt Whitman, 12 March 1884

  • Date: March 12, 1884
  • Creator(s): Allen Upward
Text:

my love to a living soul.

I glory in my mutability and my vast receptivity; I glory in having no unalterable opinions.

I glory in my invincible supremacy over prejudice, my superb contempt for custom.

He is the author of all my suffering, but he hath redeemed my soul. (And alas!

Nor am I less thine equal on account of my years.

Annotations Text:

I could not but warmly respond to that which is actually personal: I do it with my whole heart."

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 2 July 1864

  • Date: July 2, 1864
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor | Horace Traubel
Text:

Shall I live to write my Shakespeare book and a score of gorgeous romances?

Rely on me, Walt, for anything you want done here, or anything at all in my power.

Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Henry Norman, 3 January 1887

  • Date: January 3, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

is at its height and bitter cold here now, the earth hard and covered with ice and snow, as I sit by my

God bless my British friends assisters—(from the first they have come in when most wanted)— Walt Whitman

Annotations Text:

Pall Mall Gazette devoted a great deal of space to Whitman in 1887: January 10, excerpts from "My Book

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 21 April [1873]

  • Date: April 21, 1873
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

days—I walk very clumsily yet, & do not try to get around by walking—but I think I am stronger now, & my

writing this over at the office—It is pleasant here, but cloudy & coolish—Mother, I suppose you got my

envelopes & I will send them—write whenever you can—I think I shall be able to soon give a good account of my

Annotations Text:

Washington: "walt if you think you cant get a house for us to live in dontdon't worry about me. i shall live my

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 2 May [1875]

  • Date: May 2, 1875
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

To Burroughs on June 9, 1875, Dowden admitted that "my article on Victor Hugo is only partially satisfactory

Harrison S. Morris to Walt Whitman, [After 31 May] 1891

  • Date: [After May 31], 1891; 1891
  • Creator(s): Harrison S. Morris | Unknown author
Text:

I have read the copy of "Good-Bye, My Fancy" you gave me, and I am amazed and delighted with the great

Whitman has about ready what he considers his last book, entitled Good-bye, my Fancy , and a sub-title

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

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

[Time always without break]

  • Date: 1887
Text:

which it underwent various changes in content, title, and position until being joined with Now List to My

Hear my fife

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
Text:

188uva.00565xxx.00259Hear my fifeBetween 1850 and 1860poetryhandwritten1 leaf8 x 15 cm; Whitman probably

first several lines of Pictures (not including this line) were eventually revised and published as My

(uva.00260) appeared, in revised form, in the poem eventually titled The Sleepers.; uva.00260 Hear my

Songs of Parting

  • Date: about 1881
Text:

included are: As the Time Draws Nigh, Ashes of Soldiers, Years of the Modern, Thoughts, Song at Sunset, My

Sail out for good, Eidólon yacht

  • Date: 1890
Text:

bv6tex.00067xxx.00380Good-bye My Fancy: Sail out for Good, Eidólon YachtSail out for good, Eidólon yacht1890poetry1

It was reprinted in Good-bye My Fancy (1891).

It is no miracle now

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

The clearest relation is to the line: "A minute and a drop of me settle my brain" (1855, p. 33), but

And I have discovered them

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1855
Text:

however, physical and thematic similarities with And I have discovered them by night and by, above, and My

[The Bible Shakspere]

  • Date: 1890-1891
Text:

It was later published under the title Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891)

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 4 Feburary 1891

  • Date: February 4, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

unwell with me—abdominal bothers (doubtless some inward fermentations or something in spite of all my

girl baby—John Swinton writes in N Y Sun (alludes to me)—Harry Stafford was here yesterday—is well—my

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

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

The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War

  • Date: 2017
  • Creator(s): Tuggle, Lindsay
Text:

excellent companionship made my Kluge tenure one of the most generative times of my creative life.

reader, and my most fiery critic.

to my barestript heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet. 142 Whitman

I had to give up my health for it—my body— the vitality of my physical self. . . . What did I get?

O my soldiers twain! O my veterans, passing to burial! 80 What I have I also give you.

John H. Johnston to Walt Whitman, 22 September 1890

  • Date: September 22, 1890
  • Creator(s): John H. Johnston
Text:

I am glad you are pleased with my idea of Ingersoll lecturing. It will be a great event.

Annotations Text:

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

(choice persons,) one third women (Proceeds to me $869.45)—I went over, was wheeled on the stage in my

William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 17 August [1877]

  • Date: August 17, 1877
  • Creator(s): William Michael Rossetti
Text:

The order (as you are aware) does not pass thro' my own hands.

Carpenter —who paid two long visits at my house, & whom I liked much, obtaining from him numerous details

G before now, but for incessant occupations, & in the last 2 mos. months much anxiety regarding my brother's

I shd should have said that the £4.12. was the only money now actually in my hands on your account.

Annotations Text:

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

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 20 July 1890

  • Date: July 20, 1890
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

The preface was included in Good-Bye My Fancy (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891), 51–53.

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

Walt Whitman with Katharine "Kitty" Devereux Johnston and Harold "Harry" Hugh Johnston by William Kurtz, July 1878

  • Date: July 1878
  • Creator(s): Kurtz, William
Text:

little Harry . . . is a fine, good bright child, not very rugged, but gets along very well—I take him in my

"Uncle Walt," and he found them "model children lively & free & children" who "form a great part of my

With Walt Whitman in Camden (vol. 1)

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

in my optimism, my democracy."

Weda Cook sang a My Captain song of her own composition.

I attribute much of my success in weathering this attack to my good stock—to my father, my mother: indeed

man,' 'my man,' 'my man.'

I must get to my bed: my head reels: I feel as though a minute more on my feet—on my feet—here—would

I know as well as

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

Bibles i are divine revelations of God But I know say that any each leaf of grass and every hair of my

compiled composed is not august enough to dent endow answer tally a leaf of grass the partition of in my

Annotations Text:

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

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, August 1885

  • Date: August 1885
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Belmont Mass Aug '85 My Dear Friend: You are very kind to remember Kennedy— yr your son by adoption &

My indebtedness to you—estimating values by all that makes life high & noble—is simply boundless.

Your confidential item abt about royalties also makes me glad & wrings my heart at the same time.

The $13. is a pure business debt. $5000. represents my soul indebtedness to Walt Whitman, who is the

the Universe as a whole I can sympathize as to copyrights; I have not rec'd received a cent yet for my

Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 28 April 1882

  • Date: April 28, 1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

next N A North American Review (June number) will have a piece A Memorandum at a Venture signed by my

name in which I ventilate my theory of sexual matters treatment & allusion in Children of Adam —I shall

Annotations Text:

reprinting Burroughs's letter of May 1, Traubel interpolated an explanation of the loan: "This was money in my

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 3 April 1863

  • Date: April 3, 1863
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Annotations Text:

He wrote in a letter dated May 14, 1863, "my profoundest help to these sick & dying men is probably the

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 18 January 1878

  • Date: January 18, 1878
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

Walt: You know that I have written to you last, and I cannot tell how it is that you will not answer my

stoped stopped to until I you know that I cannot enjoy myselfe myself any more at home, if I go up in my

I will have to close my letter, as the paper is running on so adieu if I never hear from you will think

Annotations Text:

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

Marjorie Cook to Walt Whitman, 25 September 1889

  • Date: September 25, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Marjorie Cook
Annotations Text:

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

Reuben Farwell to Walt Whitman, 7 November 1864

  • Date: November 7, 1864
  • Creator(s): Reuben Farwell
Text:

This was not any of my own luck but to accompany the newly married set was all I was on the Company.

I have received only this letter Oct 7th & one writen to My Father of which both reached me the same

But this one I have neglected on account of my being a way from home so long.

not tell of my being hit there.

My health is very good at present Also the same I wish to you My best wishes gose with this to you Yours

Annotations Text:

On March 5, 1875, Farwell, who owned a farm in Michigan, wrote: "Walt my dear old Friend how I would

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 15 March 1888

  • Date: March 15, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Camden March 15 '88 Everything continuing on ab't the same with me—was out to dinner at my friends the

here—the throat trouble still—otherwise well—O'C[onnor] is taking massage treatment —the H[erald] has paid my

Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to John H. Johnston, 23 September 1890

  • Date: September 23, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Camden New Jersey Sept: 23 '90 Y'rs of yesterday rec'd—I suppose you gave my letter & enclosures to Col

Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 22 January 1891

  • Date: January 22, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

My greatest comfort is that from Horace's accounts you seem and look well and that being the case however

Annotations Text:

Pallid Wreath" was published in the Critic on January 10, 1891; the poem was also reprinted in Good-Bye My

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 13 August [1882]

  • Date: August 13, 1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

well—have had a very fair summer, (though so much hot weather)— I commenced publishing L of G in June on my

Annotations Text:

He did not even ask about your health, or any other human thing, & made me feel that my call upon him

Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 5 March 1867

  • Date: March 5, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

We havnt got the money yet, but I suppose it is sure— I like my boarding house very well, take it altogether—we

Annotations Text:

Van Velsor Whitman's letter of February 27, 1867 was filled with complaints about her health ("i feel my

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 15 December 1890

  • Date: December 15, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Camden N J Dec: 15 '90 Feeling fairly—send you the litte obituary ab't my bro :—seems as tho' my piece

Annotations Text:

1890, contained an obituary of Thomas Jefferson Whitman, which Whitman wrote and reprinted in Good-Bye My

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 4 October 1868

  • Date: October 4, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Dear friend, I suppose you received my letter of September 25. The letters to me from A.

Did you see John Swinton's warm ¶ about my illustrious self in N. Y. Times , 1st instant?

Give my best love to John Burroughs, & show him this note to read. J.

I send my love to Charles Eldridge—By a wretched oversight on my part I missed an appointment with him

Nelly, my dear friend, I send you my best love—in which my mother joins me—We are all well.

Annotations Text:

, above the salutation appeared the following: "ask about the office—Ashton—has Andy Kerr returned —my

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 17 December [1875]

  • Date: December 17, 1875
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

December 17 Dear John Burroughs, I have been back here two weeks & over—My Washington jaunt occupied

Best love to 'Sula Ursula , & to Jenny Grant if there— My new edition is nearly ready—Two Vols Volumes

Walt)—just now though he is quite sick, but I opine will get along—The rest all very well, except that my

I hear young Walt raising his song, in the room overhead as I conclude my letter— Love to you, as always

, my friend— Walt.

Annotations Text:

Houghton wrote to Joaquin Miller on September 1, 1875, from Chicago: "Please give my best regards to

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 6 January 1891

  • Date: January 6, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

O'C to publish —Cold & sunny to day here—I have buckwheat cakes for my breakfast & mutton & rice stew

Annotations Text:

Whitman's preface was also included in Good-Bye My Fancy (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891), 51–53.

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