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Aug 9 '78 431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America My dear Mr Child I rec'd received your kind

Keep cheery, but remain a partial paralytic—I have now an edition of my works in Two Volumes (see Circular

herewith) which I have got out here & job & sell myself —(as the publishers positively wont publish me & my

wish any, the price would be $3.50 a —I send you a copy of Two Rivulets , as a little present, with my

regards—Any thing you meet alluding to me, or criticizing, or that you think will interest me, send me, my

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America Dec: 8 '81 First, thanks, heartfelt thanks, my friend

favors & attentions)—I rec'd received about a week ago the P O draft for $15.20 from Mr Fraser, for my

I am well, for me—am taking a rest from my three months' visit to New York—our heated term now here.

thanks—I am in good heart here, but nearly altogether physically wreck'd (paralysis &c)—am living here in my

thanks for your thought & deed in sending me "Nineteenth Century" criticism—you have probably seen my

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America Dec 10 '78 My dear Josiah Child Yours of Nov: 23d duly

referring to the manuscript for "Walt Whitman's Last" (a one-page piece on his last miscellany Good-Bye My

Camden P M Jan: 8 '91 Personal | My dear J M S If we are going into this thing my notion is to do it

My suggestion w'd be (if you feel to give space enough) to print after that "personal memoranda" of mine

signed by its author's name (now that O'Connor and Mrs: Gilchrist are dead those three are perhaps my

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey March 6 '83 My dear Stoddart I have rec'd received your letter enclosing

Camden Dec: 5 '90 My dear JMS I like y'r plan & feel greatly complimented by it & hope it will be carried

I send you herewith the MS of personal article (must not have my name signed) Of course if you print

uses to send about this country & to Europe) 100 printed impressions (the whole stuff) of the poems & my

328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey April 24 '90 My dear Stoddart Can you use this in the magazine?

Also you contemplate for some number a full page of my poetic bits with name attached . . . .

Camden 11 am Tuesday My friend J. M. S. (for so I would have it) Yours just rec'd.

immediately return—(if not convenient, no matter—as I trust largely to y'r good proof reader)—Am anchor'd in my

big ratan chair in my den as I write—pretty good trim considering— Meanwhile God's blessing be on you

Whitman is referring to "Walt Whitman's Last" (a one-page piece on his last miscellany Good-Bye My Fancy

My dear Marvin, Your letter of 13th has reached me.

I should have made my visit the current week, but one of my bad spells has intervened —will write to

#15 J.B Gilder '85 Camden Feb. 18 My dear J B G I have no feeling of objection to your substituting a

Camden New Jersey October 1 1884 Received from Critic Fifteen Dollars for my piece " What Lurks " &c—

My friends Can you use this in the Critic ?

delighted to have been the means of giving to future generations a portrait of you that is certainly one of my

biography, The Ferry Boy and the Financier (Boston: Walker and Wise, 1864); he described their meetings in My

Though Trowbridge was not an idolator of Whitman, he wrote to O'Connor in 1867: "Every year confirms my

My dear Friend: As you see by the date of this, I am back again in Washington, moving around regularly

My health is pretty good, but since I was prostrated last July, I have not had that unconscious and perfect

The physician says my system has been penetrated by the malaria—it is tenacious, peculiar and somewhat

It is my first appearance in the character of a man not entirely well.

C., as I call for my letters daily at the post office. Should you have an opportunity to see Dr.

My dear Trowbridge, Your letter has reached me—my best thanks for your contribution to the wounded &

Times of two months since containing a sketch of my Visits to Hospitals —I thought one had been sent

biography, The Ferry Boy and the Financier (Boston: Walker and Wise, 1864); he described their meetings in My

Though Trowbridge was not an idolator of Whitman, he wrote to O'Connor in 1867: "Every year confirms my

See Trowbridge, My Own Story, with recollections of noted persons (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903), 179

appeal very strongly—(I sometimes think only one going among the men as I do, with personal feeling & my

My dear friend, I have just received your note.

My dear friend, I am here a while on leave—am in good health as usual—have been engaged in electrotyping

a new edition of my book in better form—You sent me word a year or more ago of some Boston publisher

, or bookseller, who was willing (or perhaps wished) to sell my book —Who was it?

biography, The Ferry Boy and the Financier (Boston: Walker and Wise, 1864); he described their meetings in My

O'Connor in 1867: "Every year confirms my earliest impression, that no book has approached the power

I have to-day forwarded by Adams' Express prepaid to same address as this card— one set, Two Vols. my

Dear friend, Nothing very notable to write about, but I thought I would send you a line—This is one of my

last night—breakfast & dinner to-day with appetite—still get out a little most every day as formerly—my

give me three hours or so occupation (lazily) every day when I am not too ill —and then the baby , my

Washington, Feb 3, 1865 My dear friend, From the deep distress of my mother whose health is getting affected

, & of my sister—& thinking it worth the trial myself, I write this hastily to ask you to do, or rather

one of the special exchanges (of which they are now making quite a number) shall be made, in favor of my

(both the above officers have been promoted from the ranks for conduct on the field)— Walt Whitman My

C. as I go to post office for my letters. Walt Whitman to John Swinton, 3 February 1865

You will easily recognize the article—I enclose you my address—write me a line about it, at your leisure

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

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

When you see any thing notable or pungent about me or my affairs, send it to me, as I neither see or

My dear friend, The Homer has come & is now lying before me. I thank you deeply.

I enjoy my visits with a sad but profound joy & satisfaction—especially at night, when the light is nearly

But as I am not willing you should be the loser, in such a manner, I send you my book, by same mail with

Jenks, My dear Sir, I have rec'd your note of 30th Nov. with $3.

Please accept my special acknowledgments.

431 Stevens Street Camden Jan: 26 '82— Evn'g Evening Thank you, my dear friend, for sending Washington

Camden Nov: 6 '91 Thanks, my friend, for y'r noble and beautiful volumes "Around the World" —safely received

see Frank Carpenter tell him I am willing to sit for the picture, wh' is all I can do—& I send him my

I are very thick—then there are two grown daughters—the eldest one is a first class trump , she is my

so that we can have some good times together on land or water—I used to think of having a shanty of my

My dear friends, John R. & Rebecca B.

I wonder if you either of you have any idea how the otherwise monotony of my Camden existence has been

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

Sir In a letter from John Swinton as he speaks of your kind desire to subscribe for some copies of my

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

.— O my dear sir, I only wish you could know the sentiment of respect and personal good will, toward

I forthwith sat down, and have written my thoughts and advice.

My address is Attorney Gen's office, this city.

Washington March 24, '68 My dear Mr.

conversation between us a few days since, allow me in candor to say, that I should decidedly prefer to retain my

Record Clerk, the duties of which I feel that I can fulfil properly—& that I would therefore, as far as my

Browning's part, would I deem it my duty to waive the preference mentioned, & obey your commands.

Is it practicable to fac-similize your plate (of course at our expense here) of my picture (in 1890)

to send here for my forthcoming little (2d) annex ?

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

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

sincerely—I am living here comfortably enough, but a paralytic bodily—As I write I sit by the open window of my

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey March 10, '87 My dear John Hay, I send the two sets of books you

requested—Also a MS copy of "My Captain"—also a little Vol: containing my Dartmouth College Commencement-Poem-address

O'Connor is now in Southern California, sick— I send you my remembrance love & thanks— Walt Whitman the

The copy of "O Captain! My Captain!"