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gain—the last three hours I am up & shall probably work back before long as I was before—Five days ago my
Here I am sitting up in the big chair—I got up ab't noon, (& shall keep up an hour or two, & send you my
the last two days—but the indications are still favorable (good pulse the Dr says last two days) for my
getting sort abt as usual—Dr B went back to Canada last Tuesday night, R.R. train—I am half thro' on my
My dear Walt: I see in the papers, with agitation and alarm, the reports about your illness, which, however
But I should be in the way, considering my condition.
I had, in my years of loafing, forgotten how sweet toil was.
I had quite lost any interest in literature & was fast losing my interest in life itself, but these two
months of work have sharpened my appetite for all things.
I think I can make some money & may be renew my grip upon life. I was glad to see Kennedy.
Will you give my love to Mrs. Davis?
I wont weary you by saying more than to express my heartfelt sympathy & thankfulness & good wishes .
What with Stedman —who celebrated my last night in America yesterday by toasting me with mint-juleps
Ma y Mr Walt Whitman My dear Sir: In the July issue of the Bookmaker of which I send you two copies,
Whitman:— I send you a little token of my esteem as a birthday present.
perhaps in a day or two I may be able to render them in a better shape, when I write again to tell you of my
Caught in my rhymester's cup from earth's delight Where English fields are green the whole year long,
Commonplace Book added a few details: "He will sell me the plates of Spec: Days for $150—he gives consent to my
Days for my complete works edition—500 or 600 copies." (Whitman's Commonplace Book; Charles E.
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.
Camden PM May 18 '88 Rose late this forenoon & very miserable—half a cup of coffee for my breakfast—but
Didn't my lower stomach shout to my upper stomach with loud halloos!
But that my illness makes me unfit for composition, I would like to review Donnelly's reviewers so far
My talk with him must have sunk in. Goodbye. Nelly sends you her love. So do I.
My friend Carpenter —one of your best friends—has sent me a copy of his "Songs of Labour"; containing
I cannot express my feelings in this Commercial language, when writing to people I love, and do not try
Whitman, late in life, said to Horace Traubel: "[I] take my Ruskin with some qualifications."
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
the net is slowly winding & tightening round me)—was out driving yesterday afternoon & to supper at my
—the oysters come—I had 3 or 4 for my breakfast—I take no other meal till ab't 5—Lady Mount Temple has
Walt Whitman I see I have taken a sheet of paper with a rambling first draught of one of my Herald yawps
—Had a good supper, oysters & champagne, at my friends the Harneds in the evn'g—I only eat two meals
Queries to My Seventieth Year
this, Mr Horace Traubel, a personal friend of mine, the same as you would with me, & consider him as my
, wh' I enclose, with slips—Send to Dr Bucke, after reading—As I write, I am sitting down stairs in my
big arm chair—My sister Lou (George's wife) has just been here—It looks like such a fine & bright weather
I shall try to get out in my rig.
In my teaching and lecturing I find no difficulty in getting Converts to the new doctrine and find your
Camden pm April 26 '88 If it sh'd be quite pleasant weather Sunday my present intention is to drive down
No special news in my affairs—things much the same old way—Joe has stopt by the window a few minutes.
Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to
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.
am just off on a ride & spree to Gloucester-shore to a planked shad & champagne dinner given me by my
L C Moulton is coming here this afternoon —I am reading Boswell's Johnson —My Elias Hicks plaster bust
Eve (I free from the gnarring of the finite at my heels).
Sunday My dear Mr. Whitman I enclose the only one of the Herald contributions I have recently seen.
April 19/88 Walt Whitman: Dear Sir: It is probable that my friend Kennedy has told you something of me
, saying that he finds a "solid line of enemies" (I think those were his words) This is not true of my
In my teaching and lecturing I find no difficulty in getting Converts to the new doctrine and find your
and lecturing to bring your work before the people and it would give me pleasure to know you consider my
—Wishes me to invite you in his name & my own—You come here say ½ past 12 & we will drive down in my
noon April 18 '88 All goes as well & monotonously as usual (No news is good news)—I got up late, ate my
especially such as this one: I was sitting at breakfast yesterday morning, when the lines came into my
longing to send you a word, but you can't imagine how hard it is for me to rouse myself to write, in my
my wretched lameness prevents me from exerting myself as I want to.
Despite my illness and inanition, I am all agog for the result.
"O for the light of another sun, With my Bazra sword in my hand!"
Heyden's "The Last Words of Al-Hassan" contains the lines "O Allah, for the light of another sun, / With my
My dear Sir: Would you be willing to entertain a proposition to cross this Autumn to England and deliver
From facts in my possession I am quite sure that you would be very successful for the cultured class
My friend and yours, R.
locomotion power & in more liability to head & stomach troubles & easiness of "catching cold" (from my
just past noon & I am told I am to have a good rice pudding made in a big earthenware baking dish for my
S. & Alice are going to London to live— a big bunch of white lilies scents the room & my little canary
you have a chance you may show this to Mary Costelloe & Wm William Rossetti —to both of whom I send my
Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
All my Herald bits will be included in November Boughs & I will send an early proof of all to you—As
I write I am sitting here in my big chair by the window (I have open'd it a few moments—it is near sunset—air
am quite immobile & don't get out except by being toted —a bunch of white lilies is in the window & my
advance— I am still living here & comfortable & in good spirits enough but probably near the end of my
Sunday noon April 8 '88 It is very pleasant & sunny to-day & I am going out in the rig abt 1 o'clock to my
champagne—I enjoy everything—Nothing new with me—there seems to be some hitch in the Herald's publ'ng my
My health though poor is "the same subject continued"—I enc: K[enne]dy's letter from Wilson —(not important
cold cutting true sea brine)—I have not heard a word of the Worthington suit in N Y —not a word from my
Kennedy had written to Whitman: "Rhys continues his schemes on society's pocket-book, & demoralizes my
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 father-confessor, I feel a strong desire to be clasped closer to yr your breast, to know my friend
—Well, there, my eye lights on my memorandum of it.
I have not time to copy out my translation. affec. as always W.S.
I offer my congratulations in advance.
that item about my reading proofs) before I give him the MS.
& my works' future—the backward & contemporary reference.
less evidences of gradual physical deterioration —but spirits good—appetite &c fair—& you know I begin my
70th year now in ab't two months—thank God indeed that things are as well as they are & that I & my
fortunes (literary & otherwise) are—Rainy & dark & raw here all day—I was out yesterday four hours to my
friends the Harneds —was taken & bro't back in my phæton —a lull in my Herald contributions —I send
March 24/88 Dear Mr Whitman My father and other members of the "Society of Old Brooklynites" are anxious
It is now some two years ago since your poems were first brought under my notice (by my friend Mr A.
Ladell Balls) and their effect upon my life from that time has been most marked.
dark wet day—raining hard outside as I sit here by the window—am feeling pretty well—have just had my
unawares—invites to swell dinners (or societies &c) invariably declined—Am idle & monotonous enough in my
weeks & life here—but upon the whole am mighty thankful it is no worse—my buying this shanty & settling
D[avis] to cook for me, might have been bettered by my disposing some other way —but I am satisfied it
Camden 9 P M March 19 '88 I was out yesterday to my friends the Harneds , & took a 3 or 4 mile drive
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
Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to
I used it at my talk last week. Think I shall put up another for my own use.
I find I can co-operate with them & do my work on common ground.
My exhibition will include a variety of things.
I am going to send for my Cleveland statue & your bust.
I felt like doffing my hat to old Dame nature.
continuous subscription, safely rec'd —I am in good heart & still writing a little but near the end of my
Have done nothing more with my W.W. paper, shall rewrite it as soon as I get a little time (a mighty
have a few autograph letters that I preserve by putting carefully in the front, that gives them to 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
Browning has just been here & says you wish something more specific & defined in my relations and pay
March 7: '88 I was really astonished to hear my quondam college mate—young Henry Norman —was the one
I was in the first flush of my enthusiasm for you; had just read you for the first time, & after a while
matter increases my esteem.
Charity, charity, man, I keep saying (& think of my own grievous sins).
I send you a Transcript marked, and also send you my love in unlimited quantities.