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328 Mickle Street Monday 2 PM I have just learned that a young man whom I sent to speak for me in my

My dear Linton; I want you to have printed very nicely for me 1000 impressions of the cut, my head, to

I have already written you my approval of your three communications in the L[ondon] D[aily] News & will

[say] that in my opinion (& now with fullest deliberation reäffirming it) all the points assumed as

I shall (as I see now) continue to be my own publisher & bookseller.

Each book has my autograph. The Two Volumes are my complete works, $10 the set.

works in Two Volumes, with autograph & portraits, or some other of my books.

431 Stevens St—Camden, N Jersey U S America— Sept 1, '76 My dear friend, At last I am beginning to receive

from the bindery the second batch of my late Two Volume edition (I print 600 copies each Vol.) & send

I am now at last also supplying my English subscribers & friends their Vols.

My letter of June 26, speaking of the situation, the delay in printing this second batch, &c.

My dear little baby-nephew, & namesake, is dead, & buried by the side of my mother, a bitter cup to me—Otherwise

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

Please see that the photograph is given to the School of Art, with my affectionate respects.

Jersey, U S America March 31, '76 My dear friend, (Later than my letter dispatched last evening I wish

A., corner Chestnut and Strawberry streets, on my endorsement .

Feel or fancy I feel, relief already as summer wanes—one of my doctors thinks much of my head trouble

431 Stevens st cor West Camden N Jersey U S America April 4 '76 Robert Buchanan— My dear friend— I merely

431 Stevens st Camden N Jersey U S America April 23 I have to-day sent by mail my new Vol.

; London N W | C 7 | Paid | My 8 | 76."

Please make a bundle of all my books , Burroughs's Notes , As a Strong Bird , 67 Ed'n Edition L of G,

My love to mother, father, & all the children.

frontispieces prepared for them (see front of the vols)—& send them over again by this boy, & I will put my

Camden New Jersey U S America Oct 23 I send to-day to same address as this card my Vol.

Camden New Jersey U S America I send to-day, to same address as this card, my Vol.

431 Stevens street Nov. 21 '76 My dear R B I sent you over two months ago (Sept 5), by express prepaid

direct to same address as this letter, a package of some 17 or 18 vols of my books, in wrappers, with

My limbs still lamed from paralysis—but I get around yet—strength a little more reliable—spirits cheerful

That was my last. Did it reach you? Your letter of April 28th is the last I have rec'd from you.

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

solitary woody pond, (half the time naked or half-naked)—am now quite fat & all tanned & red—Love to you, my

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

Camden, N Jersey—U S America Sept 9 — I to-day send you by mail, a second set , Two Vols. of my Books

Dec December 11 '76 My dear Linton I have been for some weeks down in the country—half moping like—yet

I have been waiting for the chance to get from the bindery, or from my stack, (as I unwrap the books)

you want—I have it in mind, & shall get it so, & send it you— Meantime, let this remorseful note be my

apology— —My address here is still the same— Walt Whitman Camden New Jersey Walt Whitman to William

Camden New Jersey June 8 '76 My dear Ward, I have rec'd your friendly & generous subscription, $50, for

5 sets of my Books, & thank you heartily.

Grass —with some other little Vols—slips, duplicate engravings of self—& a special Photo. prepared by my

for your studio) As the very limited first issue of my new edition is about to be exhausted, your other

Camden N Jersey July 22 '76 A R Spofford Dear Sir The editions of my Leaves of Grass , as within specified

Johnstons (in 10th street)—his jewelry store is at 150 Bowery, cor Broome—call & see him—quite a lull in my

book selling, & in my affairs, & literary doings, generally— W W The following are responsible for particular

Stevens street Camden, N Jersey—U S A I have to-day forwarded by mail, to same address as this card, my

WSK 328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey July 8 '86 Dear W S K I have returned from my jaunt to the Jersey

relics I think may be worth while—for you —Fine sunny weather here to day, & I have been out in it with my

—Glad to hear from you, & would send you my writings, gladly.

spell—ten days, two of them quite serious—but am somewhat better—am sitting up anyhow writing this, but my

brain is flabby—my grip weak—The doctor speaks of a pronounc'd gastric trouble, from long indigestion—No

Solitude" —have no doubt it is a total invention (not to use the word fraud wh' is perfectly proper)—my

are a good many such—it might be worth while to stamp them peremptorily in future—I have included all my

a good strong willing nurse , & good doctoring watch—I send my love & memories to Mrs: F., to Baxter,

My eye got open at last, but is still bleary and bad."

Had my breakfast & relish'd it—three or four hot stew'd oysters, a stout slice of toasted Graham bread

, & a mug of coffee— My housekeeper Mrs: Davis is compell'd to be temporarily absent these two days &

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

often bless the Lord & congratulate myself that things are as well with me as they are—that I retain my

mentality intact—that I have put my literary stuff in final form—that I have a few (but sufficient)

I often wish that I could write you a long letter, & tell you all about us, but as I wrote you, my head

& eyes gave out , & I can write but very little, even to my two sisters,— & we are all that are left

Camden Saturday Evn'g Sept. 14 '89 Nothing particular or new in my affairs or condition—feel bad enough

"Liberty" (Tucker's paper) for a very good little memoriam of Wm O'Connor, by my young friend Traubel

address)— I hear from Dr Bucke often—he is well & busy at his Institution, London, Canada—I hear f'm my

(It may not suit them) I saw my ¶ abt the "banditti combine" in paper —I am having bound up 100 more

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

off to NA Rev. last evn'g— Am not even as well as usual—have the grip & bladder trouble & have eaten my

Symonds, f'm Switzerland—the grip has caught me again—have rather a bad bladder trouble interferes with 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

I shall go & show myself & say publicly a word or so, (as I wish to definitely show my identification

with me these days—Have a little piece in (probably) the forthcoming Critic —have just got outside of my

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

Have just sold & sent off to Eng'd my little p'k't-b'k L of G. Grip & bladder trouble bad.

(I count Ing: as one of my noblest friends & upholders)—John Burroughs has been here to see me—he is

Policemen should be directed by the Mayor, Deputy Superintendent, Captains, or whoever it is that they

.— The New York Times pretends that there is yellow fever in this city, because the Captain of the Brig

The facts seem to be that, on last Wednesday it was reported to Health officer Boyd, that the captain

My heart bleeds for him—he feels terribly his situation; and to save such a man as—,is worth more than

— —"I have only enriched my garden With the black mire from the street."

'Courage, my boy!' wrote Lord Chatham to his son, 'only the Encyclopædia to learn!'

The principals were stripped and eager for the fray, when the unstrategic approach of Captain Shaurman

The ship Greenland also arrived yesterday from Havana, the former Captain (Bates of Augusta, Me) having

Captain Varnum, formerly first mate of the bark Ocean Home, brought the ship to New York, and was yesterday

duplicate printed copies of a poem I have written, "Passage to India," in which I endeavor to celebrate in my

price, time, selection of magazine, and in fact all the points of that sort, I leave absolutely to you— My

Nothing new or very different with my affairs. I remain in good health & spirits.

Tennyson, It is a long time since my last to you.

illness—some three months, afterward was recovering at Washington, when called here by the death of my

To-day, a cloudy & drizzly Sunday, I have taken it in my head, sitting here alone & write—follow the

magnetism human relations are capable of—I have told you how young & how American they mostly are—so on my

them suffering & dying—Doctor to the other friends that assisted me in Boston & to yourself, I send my

My dear friend, I have just received your letter of the 7th inst.

A new edition of my book will be printed this fall, with another small volume in prose.

I send you my love—Write whenever you can.