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My dear Sir;— Will you kindly favor me with your autograph, to go in company with others famous in word
Walt Whitman, My dear Sir:— Your "Old Poets" in the November Number of the North American Review, I read
Pardon my sending you my thoughts, which, judging from the tone of your article I feel sure you will
March 19, 1873 Walt Whitman Dear friend, By my sister Nell's request I send you today by mail the best
copy I could find of my Medical Electricity.
more pretentious books, published by medical electricilians electricians in this country who have made my
I wrote to my sister my haunting fear that you might use electricity prematurely & incautiously & I rejoiced
I for one have felt my indebtedness to you for great thoughts & words more than ever before.
My Dear & Esteemed Freind I take the present opporutnity to write you these few lines to inform you that
any answer i think it very Strange i recived these two pictures and give one to wilson, and kept one my
April 7/64— father i have been here to se yo and yo was not at home i leave my best wishes hoping yo
not received the letter I hope wen those few lines reach you they will find yo well i am quite well my
friday i was exazamend by the beast of dockters i would not go in the invalid corps so they send me to my
ridgement i am willing to go and try and do my duty thair and if the Rebs hit me a gen all rite i will
thair i have ben home sence i left Washington i wish yo would see dockter blis and have him to send my
write and let me know how yo are geting a long and how the boys is gets a long tel them i am going to my
lost] yesterday and was glad to heer from yo and yo were en Joying good helth as for me i am not well my
very slow the warm wether chafed me all to peces and now with all the rest i have got a large boil on my
left knee my famly is well my little girl has ben quite sick but is well agen— the wether has ben very
and came horn and kep hid 3 weeks thare is 30 dollars reward on him i think they had or to hang him my
Friend witman I now take the plesure of fulfilling my promace of writing to yo hoping to find yo en Joying
good hlth I am not very well i am worse now than wen i got out of bed i tore my wound acoming home the
i have been home i have had the docter and he ordered me to bathe in sider soaky i will hef to have my
better here than they do in washington I find a grate many that donte know me when i arrived in york my
cosin was thare and he brought me to my home it has ben rainy ever since I have been home— give my love
Dear Father I now take the plesure of fulfilling my promace a writing to you hoping those few lines will
find you well 1 am getting better fast i am at home now i got home after noon my famly is well i left
long to see yo and have a long talk with yo It rains here this morning and to day is lection one of my
mornin dated the 13 and was very glad to hear from yo i am not very well i have good dele of pain in my
away an then we must all sooner or later give up this world— i had a few lines from home this morning my
little girl is sick and i feeling bad to think that i cant see her now but my prays is that she may
start for elickazandry [Alexandria] to the convalesent camp if i could get to the city i could get my
discharge but i cant father i thank yo for seeing about my discriptave list for they owe me now six
news here we had a good dinner here to day father yo must excuse me for not writing a long letter for my
yo and i was glad to here from yo i am not very well and have not ben for some time i have pain in my
head and breast i think the clorform that i have taken is the caus of it my hip is very painful to day
i was exasamend i think that i will go before the board in a day or two i may get my discharge i have
hurd that my ridgement is going home for the winter to recruit thair is only 17 men left inny more for
could get detailed in washington at some thing that i coud do i woud be very glad and would try to do my
I wished I was where I could have a hand in fixing up something for my old comrade, but here we cannot
verry disagreeable for all that are on Picket. but I shall have to bring this to a close by Sending my
Made Captain Aug. 1864—got a family in Buffalo" (Manuscripts of Walt Whitman in the Collection of American
enrolled as first sergeant of Company F (though by the time of his imprisonment he had been promoted to captain
Since my return to the regiment we have been very buisy, and we still have a great deal to do in the
The next day after my return we received orders to be ready to move at a moments notice which we did
about noon the Same day took our backward track to the front of Petersburg, near to the place where Captain
is now in Charge of our Regimental Quarter Master and I will Send it home with the first Officer of my
There is no news of importance with us that would itnerest you So I will close by Sending my best respects
And as this is Christmas night and I alone in my Shanty will improve it in writing You althouth there
excepted it and had a verry nice time yet I think had I been in New York or Brooklyn that I would enjoyed My-Self
are now Priosners of War Who have Served and fought in the regiment Since the Orginization and for my
In this affair of the clerkship, my friend Mr. Stedman has already printed his disclaimer.
Three months later, in a pamphlet, I did my best to secure for the infamy of Mr.
But it is not my fault if the last fortnight's journals reaching Mr.
My regard for the work antedates by several years my acquaintance with the author, and no one can justly
It was morning in the world with me when I first read those mighty pages, and felt to my imnest soul
the details of an outrage so sigual in its character and so sinister in its bearings as to become, in my
I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is
I wish to see my benefactor, and have felt much like striking my tasks and visiting New-York to pay you
my respects.
well fortified does he think himself in his cobweb Gibraltar, that he blandly imagines the force of my
passionate, well-wishing, which I felt then, and feel to this hour, the gratitude and reverence of my
And my arriere and citadel positions—such as I have indicated in my June North American Review memorandum—were
as a statement “of all that could be said against that part (and a main part) in the construction of my
On the contrary, without waiting to understand what he has read, he talks about my letter to you being
written you long before, as well as after, but have been in a wretched condition with the "misery in my
I don't improve in my back and legs as rapidly as I ought, and am nearly as lame and heavy as you are
I got a copy of Kennedy's pamphlet from him, and but for my bad condition would have written to him,
Often as I have read it, I can't keep the tears out of my eyes."
White, even at my expense! Reason, Shakespearean hostility to the subject. This is a pretty note!
weeks have elapsed since the commission of an outrage, to which I have not till now been able to give my
Nothing deepens my respect for the beautiful intellect of the scholar Alcott, like the bold sentence
Adventures of this kind are frequent, and "I took a fancy to you," or "You look like one of my style,
I weigh my words and have considered well.
He is of my own party; and my politics have been from my youth essentially the same as his own.
Oh, my God! my God!"
Oh, my divine Redeemer! Oh, my Friend, my Saviour!"
own husband, my first, my only love, my love forever!
"O my God—my boy George!"
boy, my George; my saved and ransomed George; my son, my son!
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 got your letter of last May, but have not been well able to write with my half-paralyzed hands and
My little book overwhelmed me with letters, and I have felt stung not to be able to answer many of them
My faith is not shaken. Life seems to have almost stopped still with me.
My dear Mr.
Whitman I am trying my best to make up for the loss of my collection of Autographs a year or two since
me with yours and anything you can spare either Literary, Musical or dramatic and confer a favour on My
My address in Brooklyn is 132 Pacific St. I shall be here all this week.
June 19, 1882 Dear Walt: I have yours of yesterday, and am happy in the thought that you find my second
That is what they will try to do, and my reply to Chadwick will make it harder than ever for them.
On the other hand, The Tribune invites my attention to Sigma's "assertion" about the "disgusting Priapism
," which is, of course, a disgusting lie, and I I have to make up my mind whether the point is worth
shows a desire to put in something as a makeweight, and to seem biased against me, while admitting my
My aim is to attack Marston, terribly , and I don't want to be led off into a side show by an anonymunculus
for him, in a whirl of bitter work and many cares, a long helter-skelter sort of an introduction, for my
He thought my prolegomena good, and I was sorry I could not make it better, but if Rees, Welsh & Co.
publish his book, I will strive to refurbish my contribution and make it better.
The thing for a pamphlet will be my letters upon Oliver Stevens and company, when we get to a stopping
Postmaster General, with my assistance, and we will put in a copy of this letter of Chainey's.
My old fencing-master, Boulet, (no better ever lived; he taught once at West Point,) taught me always
to cover my breast with hilt and point, even in the lunge, and I think of his lessons when engaged in
I have freely used the memoranda you sent, and got in as much of it as I could see my way to employ,
I hope my new letter will be as successful with you and the public as my first.
Watch the for my anti-Chadwick. I hardly think it will fail to bring him down.
Next best, is your admiration of my lightnings.
Of course, I was delighted, for my article puts the matter just in the shape I wanted it to appear—gives
I think John will be delighted with my sword-play.
pleased with me, and the poignant and perfumed little note of thanks I sent him after the appearance of my
My task is to do this, and thoroughly, the first time. No after claps.
My article has gone to the Tribune with a note to Whitelaw Reid, and we await the result.
My object is to smoke the hidden movers in this business out of their holes, and I kept this in mind
Marston was behind the Boston attorney, I took care not to even mention his name, but focussed all my
It is all right for you to take such an attitude as you do toward them—for you personally; but my part
—I hope my letter will appear and be satisfactory to you.
He has just done an astonishing thing—printed my private letter in his paper—the letter in which I asked
Dear Walt: I have sent you the MS of my letter to Bucke.
The collection of my anti-Comstock letters has been positively prevented up to date, by simple lack of
I was thinking of you when I wrote the first and third of my three reasons against transfer.
Do you see my dilemma?
I aimed, also, in my contribution to the volume, to add to its interest and attractiveness.
On the 5th page is my touch at Comstock. I hope it will do you good.
I will do my best to keep up the controversy. Tucker has fairly cowed Stevens & Co in Boston.
My private advices are very amusing. Pity Osgood was such a craven, though better for you.
I thought my letter would have the effect of making him cautious. Now for Tobey.
I think you will like it as well as my first letter.
My Jeannie has been very ill this summer, but is getting better, and will go to Providence on Friday.
But soon I shall be freer, and my first act shall be to collect the Oliver Stevens letters into a pamphlet
If he meddles with your book in New York, I will do my utmost in all directions to have him removed from
His taking up for that miserable Chadwick against me, misrepresenting and falsifying my argumentation
The Unitarian Index did a rascally thing lately in reprinting Chadwick's letter verbatim, without my
Underwood excused himself for not printing my answer on the ground that it was too "personal"!!!!!
If anything happens to prevent my leaving on Monday, I will let you know of my detention.
Bucke writes me that you like my Introductory. Faithfully W. D. O'Connor. Walt Whitman. William D.
If the appendix is wholly composed of my compositions, and if Dr.
, but we writing-fellows think no small beer of ourselves, and I don't propose to be singular among my
struck out half a dozen absurd lines at the end of the Properly speaking, I suppose I ought to retain my
A line has been dropped from my reply to Lanman.
getting the Critic of June 16, for which Brentano sent for me, and find that the item I copied into my
The Nation this week (I have just seen it) does not print my reply, which may have come too late, and
"A horse, a horse—my kingdom for a horse!" WDO'C William D.
My eye is now under battery treatment (assault-and-battery treatment, you would think to look at it!)
and just as soon as I can recover my sight a little better, I will plunge into the volume, which now
August 31, 1888 My dear Walt: I got your letter of the 6th, a postal card of the 11th, divers newspapers
I have had it on my mind for a month to write, but have had a bad time.
My hope and heart are high for you. If the weather will only let up! Good bye.
I find on carefully reading the "Quarterly," that I should greatly qualify my first impression of its
being quite crushed with the dead heat we have been having, and sick with obstinate bowel trouble and my
My belief in your getting better is invincible, for your stamina is indomitable.
I had been feeling depressed and sorrowful—perhaps my own bad state had something to do with it; but
anyhow, the brave hand-writing was like Chevy Chace to Sidney, "stirring my heart as with the sound of
He is certainly the winter of my discontent mentioned by Lord Bacon in his play of Richard III.
years Whitman increasingly considered him an antagonist; late in his life, Whitman commented: "Some of my
Sometime when you are sending you can return me the article for my collection.
I keep up my spirits as well as I can, but find it all pretty depressing.
My eye got open at last, but is still bleary and bad.
My present woe is a festered pen finger, sore as death, and preventing me writing.
It is one of my afflictions, though without pain.—I will try to write soon.
I am in great mourning that I can't get my reply to Richard Grant White on the Bacon-Shakespeare matter