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Your Specimen Days I regard as the most humane book of the present century.

with your life's work, and that I regard your Leaves of Grass as being the most original of American books

I should like the book to represent your penmanship as well as your skill as a printer.

Emerson says somewhere that no matter how much the critic fails to tell the history of his book he never

He and O'Donovan Rossa were fellow prisoners!

Dear Walt Whitman:I have received your book and Ms. and send, with my hearty thanks, a New York check

for the trouble of copying, simply.My boy, ten years old, said to me this morning: "Have you got a book

s books in youth the Bible and Virgil. W.'s Homer and Shakespeare."3.

W. handed me some proof-corrections for the book. He had no letter from Bucke to-daytoday.

Saw the Millet book on the floor. He said he was done with it.

Harry Wright called yesterday. George's wife in to-daytoday. Told Mrs. Davis of some dreams.

both their lives (all this is in the singing and music, very fine)—so the lover is brought in as a prisoner

of the book? yours?" I spoke of several minor matters, he commenting little but questioning much.

I proposed bringing over the rest of the books due us from McKay.

Have not looked into it much yet—no time—but how modern some of it is—for instance Chapter XI, Book ii—that

s mother in Bucke's book.

I doubt if they'll get up as good a book as this there."

Yet all the books were not lost. "there have been ten or twelve sent to me for my signature."

He stopped an instant: "I made use of it in the book, in November Boughs—in A Backward Glance.

He wrote some poetry—we read about it just a little time ago there in Carlyle's book: Sterling thought

There is one thing these publishers are determined to do: each one must have a book review."

There was a vile review of Bucke's book in The Nation of [June] July 26.

Apropos of corrections, I wish, if Bucke's book comes to a second edition, that you would substitute

Pott's publication of Bacon's Promus—an anti-Shakespeare document—which hurt the book immensely, and

See what that cursed knout-empire does for praising a free book!

I had brought him plate proofs of the three new pages of the big book.

W. said: "I like it, too"—saying afterward as to Kennedy's probable further discussion of the book: "

But my book has aroused his suspicions.

: yet it is my final judgment that the book is just right as it is now—that it should be permitted to

Talked about the book—pushing it ahead.

I gave him a book—one of Dave's copies—for Dowden.

I remarked: "He 'llHe 'll find it worth while: the book pans out well with healthy strangers."

"That is a good thing to hear—that is the test of a book: does it wear?"

W. said: "Yes, he wants to identify himself with the books he publishes—their writers.

Did the books go?" I answered no. McKay is reviving Brown.

He had seen Parker and would like to see the book.

I sat on the sofa, looking across a barrier of chairs, books, papers, wood for the stove, &c., &c.

I suggested: "Here is the explanation of the tremendous living power of your books."

Here were the origins of poems I had always enjoyed in the printed book: lines, passages, showing his

I will sort of inventory the contents of the package:A hospital note book.

W. had cut none of the pages except those relating to new books.

true: it is dry enough—light enough: but there 'sthere's a story, and it covers more than half the book

"I have been wondering if there may not be a better paper than white for our books," adding: "Has the

from a talk—a supposition—two or three years ago: Walsh does not seem to know the piece was in the book

The book, most of it, was just as it is now half a century ago: I have added some pages, perhaps: otherwise

The book is now about ready for the binder. I spurred W. "Let us have your ideas."

a whim, if you choose—a humor—that I should sometime collect together all I have written into one book—get

and carry the different parts as I may want them about in a little parchment wallet; for the whole book

Book of Browney Valley, (Browney being the name of the little river by which I lived for some years)

every morning to this attic window, I gather with tremendous zest materials for a larger volume—the book

little in it to hold me: but I had a little notion towards it: I have John humors when I pick up his books

I want the book to be taken on its merits: if it 'sit's a sick book I don't want it excused."

"Your being a sick man wouldn't excuse a sick book."

I keep right on reading the book you brought me: I want to read it all: I get more and more interested

: I must have taken some one name from another: anyhow, bring the book along: I would like to see it.

Is he to illustrate Stedman's book?" I am to inquire and to send the plate on Monday.

"After all," he presently argued: "I was too quick to condemn the Conway books: I pushed them aside the

Take those last years—the last days—in the Carlyle book: they are better told of there than anywhere

"They were like this: it was in his prison days: the prisoners suffered from bad food or too little food

I asked W. if he had any directions to give me about a cover for the book.

"I 'mI'm thinking of a squib for the big book," he said.

So far he had been saying: "I guess I'll let the book go as it is: no intermediating words are necessary

I had a copy of this picture: they wanted it: I sent it for the book.

Don Piatt's name was there before us in the Lincoln book.

I was attracted by the curious title: Leaves of Grass, opened the book at random, and my eyes met the

Dear Horace:I rec'dreceived the book all right and wrote so to W. W. in a few days.

I said: "Bucke is impatient for the big book."

He said: "Tell Maurice to give the big book time: you can't shift the tide ahead of its own pleasure:

Harned has the book. I told W. so.

Later he said: "Now don't forget the Froude book: you have made me anxious to see it."

"Yes, when I 'mI'm interested in such a book a bit I 'mI'm interested a good deal.

I asked him about the Notes for the book.

He turned to the table and fingered among its books and papers hunting for something. "Oh!

If that is so then I must read the book: it must be one of our books."

Then: "Yes, it certainly must be one of our books if the preachers are against it."

I am delighted at your prospect.I earnestly hope they will print Bucke's book also. It will help.

Speaks of his reading as "altogether a matter of humor and of what book comes to hand when" he "sits

He asked me immediately after motioning me to a seat and laying the book down: "Is everything settled

He remembered the book—its title—but had not, he thought, read it, nor had he met Holland.

I feel quite proud at being the agent and deputy of the book in this way.

I do hope you will like the general get-up of the book, and so on.

letter from a Chicago fellow asking about Leaves of Grass—enclosing two dollars for it: I sent the book

What an advantage it would be all around if an author could sell his own books!"

He had written on this sheet:"'No good book," says Carlyle (article on Novalis)—"no good book—no good

I have a copy of Scribner's Book Buyer containing a portrait of Mrs. Ward. Would he like to see it?

"No: pieces of some of them have been put into my prose book: others are completely lost: some day, if

If that is so then I must read the book: it must be one of our books."

is safe: we have the book safe—both books!

You sent the books off?

, worthy books, remarkable books."

Exclaimed then of Harry the father: "Poor Harry! he has a siege of it!"

W. called my attention to the dummy of the book for the binder. He had it ready.

received some little while ago your post-card of 3rd May, and felt obliged to you for having sent the books

I had hardly thought there was any remaining of the book.

The humor to read had struck him: he reached for a book: Boswell was there: so I found him reading Boswell

he "found a complete illustration of this in the War: coming in contact with Southern soldiers, prisoners

room I saw a paragraph about your dismissal from the Interior Department, and as I once read your book

I read your book when it first came out and though I must admit a good deal of it was blind to me, I

"For the libraries: the schedulistic books—there are many of them now: books like Richardson's, Stedman's

Tell him, if he does well, we 'llwe'll let him put the label on the book."

Then, turning the book over: "Now, if we get a book as durable as that, I'll be satisfied"—opened, pulled

"In this way I have gone back to the book repeatedly.

In the course of our talk about the book W. said: "I like this impromptu book so much I am tempted to

Talked about the books. Has gone over the stitched copy. "I like it more and more."

W. discovered in the big book the first mistake: in Collect, page 240, line 15, changed "I think if"

Asked W. if he had read Sunset Cox's Mohammedanist book. No. Not even Why We Laugh.

He "could imagine" a "good" book from Cox.

"He 'sHe's the fellow who wrote a smutty book?" Then he asked: "Was it smutty?"

know," he said.As is generally the case when W. suffers physical depression he was eager about the book

Questioned about the book. "You don't go to Ferguson's to-daytoday?

for Curtz and besides drawing the design added these black ink directions: "for a label for back of book—the

above (in blue pencil) is a facsimile of the size of back of book, which you must get inside of.

He refers quietly tenderly to the book. "So near port—in sight of port— and now!"

He is anxious about the books. "If I get them out why—well, then let happen what may." 3.15 P. M.

Oldach spoke of the stitching of books—the style of two centuries ago—"the old-time style"—and that of

"Was the mention of the big book what you wanted me to see?" He answered: "Maybe—maybe." Then: "Oh!

is safe: we have the book safe—both books!

I showed him a copy of the complete book to-daytoday stitched and bound by Oldach—a temporary cover for

He regards Curtz's label, pasted on the edge of the book, curiously and humorously.

He turned the book over and over: "Done at last!"

finally addressed me: "Did you notice in Doctor's letter that he says he looks for us to give the book

W. asked: "Is Elsmere that kind of a book? Has it that deep an interest?"

Bucke gives some notion of all this in his book: but there was more to it: I suppose at that time I had

got half through the book—the Bulwer: there were several volumes of it.

little: nothing, practically: but afterward, when the storm had mainly spent itself, I took up the book—the

Ward's book and mine in Bulwer's."

Did not succeed in getting a definite promise from Oldach on the hundred books.

W. a little disappointed, but said: "We must wait our turn: it will come"—adding: "The book was wonderfully

Alluded to the books: "I like the sample so much: it seems such a stroke: I want Oldach to follow it

place or another: the foreign reviews, quarterlies: they gave the most splendid compendium of new books

To a fellow who could n'tcouldn't get the books it was invaluable.

I realize the danger of trusting too much to reviews of any sort—even mere statements of book news being

Had his promise of some books for this week—Saturday, probably.

Secured the remaining eight books of our thirty-four.

In the three articles (to be gathered probably in a book) I put fort, to germinate if they may, what

boiled in their jackets (which is the only way potato should ever be cooked), and have a very middling book

and the turkey and the potatoes with their jackets on and the very middling book!

friend the translator T W H Rolleston, from Dresden, Saxony)——1881"[this in ink—probably written when book

W. said: "This book has become in a sense sacred, precious, to me: I have had it about me so long—lived

Yet was "exceedingly anxious to send copies of the book out to Bucke and others."

Sent a book to Carpenter to-daytoday. "I could do that much, at the least."

The letter went off with the book.

There are some of the fellows who could extend a welcome to everything but books.

&c., in separate books? W. believed in it.

will find the book there: it may be in several volumes: it is long: get them."

I said I thought we had the book at home. W. replied: "Ah!

I said: "That 'sThat's my idea for Leaves of Grass—that 'sthat's the book I mean."

W. questioned me about the book: was anxious, yet willing to wait.

It is the kind of book that if it can once get out here will sell.

The Tribune has a little notice of the book—probably three or four stickfuls: rather interesting: I bundled

York—he was here several times to see me, too—affable, a gentleman, generous—sent me a couple of his books

W. had "tried to read" these books.

the face from every page: it sounded like a translation made by a man who started to translate the book

I don't blame Dole: he 'she's a good fellow—can do a good job: but the book seemed to me, sounded to

W. greatly gratified: he fondled the books. "Now we can send Bucke's!"

I told Bucke we would send him the book in a day or two.

I spoke again of my letter to Bucke to-daytoday: I had said, if Oldach gave me the expected books to-daytoday

return: then glided out.Down on the floor were the bundles just as I had left them yesterday—the eight books

Harry Stafford in. Did not see W. Harned in this evening: Ed had gone to him—told him of W.'

it over some: veritably a work room: here in the lowered light with W. so sick in his bed and his book

I have not yet found out from Bucke why his book is delayed.I earnestly hope the matter will bear fruit

Directed that he send books when bound directly to 328 Mickle. Tuesday, December 11, 1888.

Then: "Horace, I 'mI'm going to ask you to take one package of the books (there are four in a package

him I will write the dedication for his personal copy on a sheet of paper and he can paste it in the book

No.While we talked the three big boxes of books came from Oldach.

Addressed me: "See that the books are put into the front room: the parlor."

You sent the books off?

Then added: "You should take your books too: you will find a couple over there—over towards the corner

He said: "No: I would rather put it in the book itself.

"I am glad you got the books off to the Doctor: he should have them: nothing seemed more certain Monday

Butler says the fault of not exchanging prisoners is not his but Grant's.Walt.My room is 468 M street

The remainder of the hundred and fifty books came this evening.

In letter 5 I found two enclosures—a title page of the Rossetti book, 1868—a translation in W.'

We are not here up to the point yet, but are rising; and this book will help us I am quite sure.

—The récherché or ethereal sense, as used in my book, arises probably from it, Calamus presenting the

The facts of the different ways, one way or another, in which the book may appear in England, out of

"Nothing but things about the cover for the big book."

W.: "Well—whatever: I hope he gets his books to-daytoday."

I then quoted this to him: "Am on the lookout for book or books (by mail or express) from W."

W. laughed: "So with the book: if the nag is pure, the hook is right, then we are safe!"

W. gave Ed a copy of the big book saying he would write in it to-morrowtomorrow.

Spoke of books he wanted to go abroad.

That will depend on how I feel: but we will send them together—put the name on the wrapper of each book

Discussed then to whom books should be sent—the "complete" Whitman.

with, however, increased huskiness though much music of tone.W. wondered: "Do you think Bucke has his books

I wish to forward you a copy of my book—as I shall presently bring out a new edition.I am as usual in

Did not touch a book, however, or write. When I got there W. was fast asleep.

him, too—sent him a bundle of papers—one of them the Revue Indépendant (Paris)—discussing me, the book

W. said he had "not felt well enough" to "do the books" to-daytoday.

Makes no move towards the discussion of a cover for the complete W. or the cover for the book to go on

I asked: "Did you feel any active dynamic impulse to push the book forward in that way in England?"

What would B. think of the book?

He asked about the bundle of books downstairs: how were they brought? &c.

We counted the books. W. had not written in many of them to-daytoday.

it into the book: honestly, without stint, giving the book all, all, all: why should I call it a failure

He said: "I mean to fill in a book for you some day when the humor is on."

Anxious about Bucke's books. "What of Bucke—the books? Not a word! not a word!"

Anyhow, I am glad the Doctor's books are there—it relieves me."

He had sent a copy of the big book off by mail to-daytoday.

I asked him if he was prepared to sell any of the cheap-bound books and for how much?

I have many misgivings about your plan of getting out the book yourself.

Said he wanted Kennedy to get his books for a Christmas present, "though I have had no word from him

I said: "The book gets thicker: every now and then you add twenty or thirty pages to celebrate a new

It seems to me anyhow that the modern stamping on books is thoroughly devilish, horrible: I can conceive

Look at the lettering Dave has stuck on that book—Charles Brock-Brockden den Brown."

"Did Gardner send him the books?" "O yes! I helped him out: also sent things to Buchanan direct."