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, but the day has been so beautiful & the charm of the open air so great that I could not long keep my
My bees are working like beavers & there is a stream of golden thighs pouring into the hive all the time
I spend all my time at work about the place & like it much.
May 18, 85 Dear Walt: I have set my house & heart in order for a visit from you before these May days
You would enjoy the country here now, & it would add to the length of my days to see you here again.
him better than I expected, looks coarse & strong & healthy, has a sort of husky voice like a sea captain
I have written a short sketch as the result of my sea-shore sojourn, for the Boston "Wheelman" a new
Eldridge thinks that my publishers are dealing honestly with me.
When one of my books was published they sold the first 6 months 733 copies.
Osgood would gladly undertake my books; so would Dodd Mead & Co of Fine day here to-day, but have had
The heat is delicious I have a constant bath in my own perspiration.
My nephew, Chancy B. is with me for a few days but leaves to-morrow; so does Sulic for Kingston.
It is better than I expected It is my philosophy always to accept the good & let the bad go to the dogs
I keep pretty well & lead an eventless life: read a few books, write a little now & then, & work on my
If you preferred you could have your bed here in my shanty—a large comfortable room on the brink of the
hill, fifty yards from the house, where my books and papers are, and where I spend most of my time.
My Carlyle article goes into the August Century. I am adding a page about Mrs.
My own health is pretty good.
It has reduced my weight about 10 per cent. My belly has gone away as if I had been confined.
has had in the past, but I have no more doubt that it is one of the few immortal books than I have of my
Burroughs is referring to "My Book and I," which appeared in the January 1887 issue of the magazine.
There's something back of all that in my history, physiology, accounting for the hole I've got myself
the foot of the hill: it seems as though nothing would stay, however some things might or do delay, my
My life now seems very pale & poor compared with those days.
which I derive any satisfaction, Julian & that bit of land up there on the river bank where I indulge my
is developing into a very happy, intelligent boy, full of enthusiasms, full of curiosity, & is about my
I hope I can see my way to go to W again to see him. I shall not stay here in P. much longer.
New Jersey Sept 21 st Dear Walt: I am down here for a week or two, under the direction of my Dr, taking
Now mainly what I write for is this, to ask you to come up & be my guest for a week.
Dec 23 d 1888 Dear Walt: I am sitting here in my bark-covered study this bright sharp day, writing you
I am feeling well, better than one year ago this time, my summers work I think has put something into
If I could only continue my farm work or else hibernate like a woodchuck I should be glad.
It has been my plan to have you up here for the summer if I could pursuade persuade you to come, But
I have always had my opinion of him.
I slept in my boat or under it all the time.
The next week after I returned home I wrote up my trip for the magazine, using the health & strength
say about you, with extracts, but I cannot catch you in any mistake, as I wish I could, for that is my
I wish I could also find a slip in Shakspeare Shakespeare , or Tennyson, but I cannot according to my
The baby is doing well & completely fills my heart. Wife is about as usual.
volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My
Commemoration Ode," which has often, since its publication, been contrasted with Whitman's own tribute, "O Captain
My Captain!"
He did not even ask about your health, or any other human thing, & made me feel that my call upon him
I had resolved, for reasons of my own, not to call upon any of those fellows, & I feel like throttling
Herbert for making me depart from my resolution.
If you have a copy of my "Notes" to spare, send it to O'Connor. I have but one.
I could not have gone in any case, my wife was ill in bed & I had to go to Delaware Co County to examine
My own health is nothing to brag of, I thought the trouble was with my nervous system, but the doctor
finds it in my arterial; arteries hard & brittle, danger from apoplexy &c.
I have given up eating meat & have otherwise changed my habits—shall probably go out home in the spring
My publishers still stick to me for a book & say that if I am not content with the usual 10 per cent,
I had to come back to look after my farm. The heavy rains came near washing it away.
I & my man live alone in the old house, I am chief cook & bottle washer I keep well & busy, & am not
In a couple of weeks my grapes will be all off (only 1/2 crop this year) & I shall take another holiday
I wish you were here to enjoy this view, & this air, & also my grapes & peaches. Drop me a card.
Feb. 27, 1890 Dear Walt: Here I am back from Pokeepsie Poughkeepsie in my little study to-night with
But few of my friends have visited me here, but here I sit by my open fire & have long long thoughts
How many times have I planted you there in my big chair by the window, or here in front of the open fire
Give him my love if you write him. I think I told you we were housekeeping in for the winter.
My winter has been flat stale & unprofitable.
My berry crop & other crops were much injured.
I think I shall send my wife down there this winter; in the mean time I wish you would look into it.
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
June 28th [1864] Dear Walt It was my purpose to write to you while home, but ill health prevented me
from fulfilling half my plans.
My sleep was very poor while in Ky, but I think of it as the finest country I have yet seen—that is the
We are back home again & I am busy about my farm work.
My plough seems to find as much fat in the ribs of old mother Earth as ever it did & it looks just as
mind for some clew as to who I was, but I hardly think he placed me, though I told him the names of my
Whittier was standing by him & hearing my name, said to Emerson, "oh!
—I am making trips to N.Y. now adays nowadays to be treated for my arm & hand.
He cauterizes my back & arm with a red hot piece of platinum.
volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My
We could have a good time here in my bark-covered shanty & in knocking about the country.
For the past two weeks my head has been ground between the upper & nether millstone of bank ledgers &
He work'd worked at my father's, and had done so for two years.
letter as follows: "I extract the following, verbatim, from a letter to me dated September 29, from my
He work'd worked at my father's, and had done so for two years.
Only my brother is now upon the old farm.
I have to go back there at least twice a year to ease my pain.
my heart has always been!
To-day is my birth-day, too, I am 49 today. I hope spring finds you better.
My book "Signs & Seasons" will be out this month.
delighted to have been the means of giving to future generations a portrait of you that is certainly one 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
St was too much for me & my brain actually reels. I have never seen architecture before.
You would see your own in St , but it took my breath away.
It was more than I could bear & I will have to gird up my loins & try it many times.
If I loose lose my wits here why go further? But I shall make a brave fight.
I write you this dear Walt to help recover my self.
Rossetti I am drawn toward, and though my first impression of him was that he was a high flown literary
as Assistant Secretary Richardson has impressed me into his service here & proposes to retain me & my
I have seen enough of cities, & streets & art and pictures & museums to stand me all the rest of my days
, and am in a hurry to set my face westward.
fried eggs on a perfumed napkin, and the napkin on beautiful tissue paper & the whole on a china plate (my
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
…My brain is too sensitive.
I have just sent off the copy for my new vol volume : think I shall stick to "Signs & Seasons" for the
He wanted my opinion about the argument of the essay, so I told him that I never felt like quarreling
We have moved back here from Po'keepsie Poughkeepsie & I am very busy in my farm & fairly happy.
I shall talk to my Dr Doctor about you when I see him again, but if I were you I would adopt such a diet
as would make my blood as thin as possible, & so lessen the arterial strain This is common sense, &
Well, my time has come—that is all. You see, I am somewhat of a fatalist!"
It is like a great ship that comes to windward of me & takes the breeze out of the sail of my little
He does not do full justice to Emerson as I hope to show in my essay.
"A Backward Glance on My Own Road," The Critic, 4 (5 January 1884), 1–2.
Walt Whitman Respected Sir: I have just read your 'Memorandum at a Venture' and wish to express to you my
I am a student at the above institution and while studying my text books I have also studied the times
Robert Buchanan's new vol. of "Essays" placed in my hands.
Should our second attempt not be satisfactory, I will cheerfully avail my self of your offer. Mr.
Dear Sir:— After waiting in vain for some time for my Stationer here to obtain for me copy of your "Democratic
My very dear Friend, Finally I find time and quiet to write you—I beseech you be not angry at what may
on the other hand, to affirm that during this time I had thought it better, influenced, perhaps, by my
duties incidental to my position.
I have just come from my Mother, who, together with my Father, desires to be kindly remembered to you
hopes in the future to have had you & my little girl with me then.
John Frederick Schiller Gray was a captain in the Twentieth New York Infantry and later held the same
Wilkins, two students of Trinity College, Dublin, were the first to draw my attention to your poetical
lines of greeting in Munyon's Illustrated World, combining as they do the cradle and evening song of my
My brother writers have been very generous to me, and I heartily thank them for it.
Though a stranger to you, in your Book you have been my friend, and so I salute you.
own heroic measure (or a poor attempt to imitate it) by one of the members of the Melancholy Club, my
My name is known to your friend Mr.
I enclose prospectus of my Editions of Poe's works.
Only not mounted as I want it for mounting in my own fashion, safest way of sending is round a small
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
50 yrs years old— Viz: I have rec'd received a draft, endorsed it, deposited it, and forgot to give my
Dillingham Co: New York), he writes of Whitman: "Whitman gave a few readings under my management during
Just as he was about to recite 'My Captain,' a little girl, the granddaughter of Edmund Clarence Stedman
Sept 22/90 Dear Walt Reading your letter over again—let me say—There was no solicitation whatever on my
"Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and was reprinted in Good-Bye My
(choice persons,) one third women (Proceeds to me $869.45)—I went over, was wheeled on the stage in my
I am glad you are pleased with my idea of Ingersoll lecturing. It will be a great event.
"Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and was reprinted in Good-Bye My
(choice persons,) one third women (Proceeds to me $869.45)—I went over, was wheeled on the stage in my