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Sir: Your letter of the 15th Dec. inst. calls my attention to a certain course of proceedings of Mr.
Your letter also calls my attention to the supposed authority which you had, in consequence of or in
In a personal interview during your visit to Washington immediately after my reception of your letter
of making good the assurances of the government, in this sense and to this extent, I considered it my
I beg to enclose a copy of my letter to the Dist. Attorney, for your information.
the representative of the claimants, to agree upon such a presentation of the facts as will raise for my
Should this anticipation be realized, it will be my pleasure as well as my duty, to give early consideration
the court to advance it for argument, & named the first Tuesday in February as the earliest day that my
previous engagments in court would permit of my attention to the argument, and as being probably as
Egins is strongly pressed upon my attention as justly requiring the interposition of the Executive clemency
I should not take the liberty of again referring the subject to you, after your reply to my former reference
examination of the affidavits presented to me, on behalf of the prisoner made a considerable impression upon my
I am unwilling however to proceed upon my own impression in this regard, notwithstanding my respect for
I regret that other occupations have prevented my giving earlier attention to the application.
rendered in relation to the title of League Island, sent to me in your letter of the 5th ultimo for my
opinion as to the reasonableness of the charge; and to say that in my opinion Fifteen hundred dollars
have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th ultimo, requesting me to give you my
While I would be very happy to give my individual opinion upon this subject, if I were possessed of the
which is one of fact and not of law, and therefore not within the scope of the authority and duty of my
Joseph Conrad, Captain 29th U. S.
If your Department, however, should not regard it proper to pay this judgment, I should deem it my duty
City The subject to which your letter refers had received my official attention some days since, and
My dear Sir: I have received two communications from you, having date, respectively, January 28th, ult
the 4th inst. that you have some purpose of publishing these letters—and you intimate a desire for my
either officially or personally, I cannot consent to be made a party, and should decline, if I had my
It is not in my power to assign you so early a day. Will write by mail. Wm. M.
together with a Report thereon by the Examiner of Claims in your Dept., and requesting an expression of my
This reference presents, as I conceive, purely a question of fact for my determination, and such a question
the Court of Claims, which has been dismissed with your consent, pursuant to the advice contained in my
Gomez, omitted in my communication of the 13th inst. I have the honor to be, &c. &c. &c. Wm. M.
Before undertaking to comply with the requisition upon me of this Resolution, which it would be my pleasure
—It will, therefore, be entirely out of my power to furnish any part of this information concerning convictions
information, sought for the means of comparison between the convictions and pardons, & as it is wholly out of my
to the Senate to submit myself to its direction as to whether the partial information which it is in my
My letters to Mr. Courtney of the 2d and 21st of November last are hereto annexed, marked A and B .
The prosecutions referred to in my letters were for frauds upon Internal Revenue, as I then understood
Upon my inquiring whether he was expecting to obtain the consent of these accusers to the submission
Attorney Courtney— and these, and these alone, were the reasons for my direction of the suspension or
Eckel, and until my examination of the case, and my final directions thereupon, that the indictment in
Schley having my entire confidence, as well as your own, I concur in your suggestion that they be employed
such directions respecting the proceedings allowed to as I may deem expedient, or to express to you my
I regard the subject of your letter, and the request for my advice and direction in the premises, as
entries of certain lands at East Laginaw, Mich., by Charles Rodd and Henry Peter, which has received my
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th inst. requesting my opinion
McKeon, and return them herewith, with the endorsement of my opinion thereon.
If you approve a reversal of the judgment, it will be my pleasure to carry that desire into effect.
been both pertinent & important if I had occasion to dispose of the case of Davis as presented for my
By a perusal of my letter to Mr.
My dear Sir: In reply to your note of 12th inst., desiring, as counsel for the Commercial Nav'g'n Co.
, an interview with me during my expected visit to New York, I beg to say that I shall be pleased to
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
New Haven Conn: July 1, 1885 PO Box 489 My dear Whitman: I see by the papers that you may be going to
My answer to it has crossed the letter enclosing yours.
For myself, after some five years work on a book concerning my own especial art, I am now waiting the
Box 1188 May 19, 1875 My dear Whitman, Why have I not written to you? Why has not Spring come?
Aug: 21, 1875 My dear Whitman: First—how are you getting on?
.— My dear Mr.
arrangements and returned and told him all about it which pleased him very much, he put his arms around my
another room and when it got close to the wall an oven door opened and in went the rod and pan with my
friend vanishing away like a snow flake before my eyes. that thought then as well as now crowded into
These are part of what thoughts were crowding in my brain as I stood watching for one hour till my friend
Cooper vanished away before my eyes. so I felt I must tell you that there is a new Crematory built in
A Visit to Walt Whitman A visit to Walt Whitman On a hot August afternoon, in 1889, my wife and I went
And Walt replied: "Well my friends who have known me longest have told me, many times, that I always
And then he added, after reflecting a moment: "I think my poems are like your West—crude, uncultured,
Walt sat in his arm-chair, and held wife with his right hand and me with his left, and said: "So long, my
My dear Friend and Master, About twelve years since, I was in Boston and looking at the books of an old
In all my troubles and successes I have been strengthened by your divine teachings.
(My words seem utterly paltry and drivelling, and I am thoroughly ashamed of them.
My dear Master— do write to me—your faithful pupil and lover.
My will not prove my love, but could you have seen my work since I first read your divine Message—you
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
George's Farm, Totley nr Sheffield, England. 4.4.79 My dear Friend and Guide.
He addressed Whitman as "My dear Friend and Master" in a letter on March 5, 1879.
In all my troubles and successes I have been strengthened by your divine teachings."
Whitman, late in life, said to Horace Traubel: "[I] take my Ruskin with some qualifications."
George's Farm, Totley, near Sheffield, England, 2.4.79 My dear Friend and Guide.
What I have in me to say to you on my own account cannot be uttered in any words.
You translated hitherto hidden languages for me; you opened my eyes, which had before been only partly
He addressed Whitman as "My dear Friend and Master" in a letter on March 5, 1879.
In all my troubles and successes I have been strengthened by your divine teachings."
Whitman, late in life, said to Horace Traubel: "[I] take my Ruskin with some qualifications."
No 321 High S t Newark New Jersey June 15th / 91 My Dear Friend Walt , I see by the papers that a short
Just reaching up to my Three score. I have been thinking how long since I saw you.
I have in my mind one, that is George Storms as you used to ride more with him than any one else: but
I hardly think I will find many of them but I will try my best to find some of them. in the meantime
Newark, New Jersey June 21st, 1874 My Dear Friend Your Letters & papers came duly at hand.
I left New York in Oct. 1868, and me and my Brother started A Milk Depot here And we until the Spring
When we separated and I commenced to Paddle my own Canoe: I have A small route And keep A Depot.
Enclosed you will find A Card which my friends say resembles your Humble Servant Very Much you shall
I suppose this is your last production: My Best Wishes from your friend, William H.
Dear Poet: The above lines I dedicate to you—my guide.
Friend Whitting, Sir, We received your kind and welcome letter inquiring for my boy Billy and in reply
I hope you will excuse me for not writing sooner I have been laid up with a pain in my back ever since
I am agoing going to have it framed if nothing happens I want that Picture to remain in my family as
hopeing hoping this may find you improving in health .. also with much love & many thanks from myself & my
My father & mother is still living in Bridgeville But myself & my little Family live near the capital
My arm has come out in a sore were where one of the balls struck it it is so bad that it gives me much
urge him to give me a posison position I have some recomdation recommendation from Curtain of Pa & my
Captain.
My Dear Sir It is with the greatest pleasure that I seat myself to give you a few lines to let you know
Uncle I have got very near well. the wound in my chest has got nearly well.
Also my arm is geting along nicely but their is some slight pain yet but none to stop me from writing
I have neglected it so long I suppose you thought I had quit forgotten you, but I can asure you my Dear
your will I should be very happy to keep up a coraspandenc Now I will try and give you an account of my
morning changed cars there fore Pittsburg arrived there about noon I went to the Soldiers home and got my
about two months before that so in the evening I took the cars again and the next morning I arrived at my
estimated 15,000 Majority for the Union that is the home vote the copperheads are completely played out My
My first meeting with Walt Whitman occurred when I was a boy and had occasion to ask for a certain residence
I did not know who or what he was, but on his answering my question I was so struck with the quality
My first visit to him occurred some years later, in the little house on Mickle Street which has been
matter of punctuation, and it was a source of annoyance to find the title of his latest book, "Good Bye My
let me have ten or Fifteen Dollars have been having pretty hard luck of late and find myself Broke My
I look forward to my visit abroad with great expectation. "My health?
My income is just sufficient to keep my head above water—and what more can a poet ask?
of my life.
Sometimes I think my Western experiences a force behind my life work. "Also the battlefield?
"My idea of a book? A book must have a living vertebra to hold it together. "My religion?
"My health?
My income is just sufficient to keep my head above water—and what more can a poet ask?
"My opinion of other American poets?
"My religion? I should refuse to be called a materialist.
I recovered what I call my second wind from nature.
June 18 188 8 My dear Mr.
Whitman:— I read with sorrow of your severe illness and beg to offer my sympathy.