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Ap. 16. 76 My dear Walt Whitman: I met a mutual friend last evening who informed me he had just procured

And so on reflection I have decided to write you that when you receive my order through Mr.

I will only say that my Soul and my sympathy all go out toward you and I often think of you as the one

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey April 18—pm— I have just mailed to you my two Volumes, Centennial

My hope has been frustrated; I am myself a very lonely man without great connecions connections , especially

Therefore my dear friend I can only beg you accept my sincere sympathy with your unfortunate condition

I have myself my considerable lot of difficulties.

In these days I have got a little harbour for my old father and now I am going to marry without fortune

and clinging all my expectations to the incertain uncertain fate of a book, which shall appear in the

Apl 18 1876 My dear sir Enclosed please find Money order for Five of 100 Dollars for a copy of Two Rivulets

, which please send to my address & to my name This subscription is from a lady client of mine yours

Seeger Since writing my note I have secured the promise of one subscription & possibly with it 2 more

In my copy, would solicit the pleasure of having your autograph signature on fly leaf.

My dear friend, I have recd received your postal handshake, and am glad to find that you appreciate my

My second letter naturally turned the tide of contributions in his direction, as I desired, deeming him

You must forgive me for my blunder the price of your books.

living by his pen—and you should certainly never want anything your heart craved; but all I can do in my

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

.— "Thou seest all things—thou wilt see my grave, Thou wilt renew thy beauty, morn by morn; I, earth

How can my nature longer mix with thine?

Coldly thy rosy shadows bathe me, cold Are all thy lights, and cold my wrinkled feet Upon thy glimmering

My first glimpse of Whitman was under such circumstances that I could not easily forget him.

As I sat listening to the arguments of Andrew and Sewall in my behalf, and of Woodbury against them,

My love to mother, father, & all the children.

the P.M. don't restitute I must be allowed to pay it—not because it is important, but because it is my

affair—& business — I send you an extra copy of my little War book, same mail with this—Shall write

you soon definitely about coming on—Love to you, my friend, & to Mrs.

I do not forget what I am owing to you, and try in every way to raise something towards discharging my

In order to tide over the dullness, I have accepted proofreading outside of my business, altho' although

My business is in the hands of a rural boy, & I attend to my correspondence from 4 A.M. till 6:30 A.M

But my mortification at having to ask you to wait, under all the circumstances, is very great.

Ap 21, 1876 My dearest Friend, I must write again, out of a full heart.

"The Two Rivulets" has filled it very full—Ever the deep inward assent, rising up strong, exultant, my

Ever the sense of dearness —the sweet subtle perfume, pervading every page, every line to my sense—O

nor what answering emotion pervades me, flows out towards you—sweetest deepest greatest experience of my

Do not dissuade me from coming this autumn my dearest Friend —I have waited patiently 7 years—patiently

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

431 Stevens st Camden N Jersey U S America April 23 I have to-day sent by mail my new Vol.

; London N W | C 7 | Paid | My 8 | 76."

Please make a bundle of all my books , Burroughs's Notes , As a Strong Bird , 67 Ed'n Edition L of G,

April 23d /76 140 East 38th st New York My dear Mr Whitman: Your note was received and I am only waiting

—No letter has yet reached me, specifying an order for my books, new edition—but if one does not come

.; Leeds | 162 | 10 My | 76."

Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my

My motive was the necessity of saving you & your relatives from the degradation implied in Mr.

You may remember that I talked to you in my bedroom about your circumstances, after I had conversed with

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

134 East 38th St New York April 24, 1876 My dear Walt— Please send 3 sets on account of my list of 5.

I have to-day forwarded by mail in two parcels (same address as this card) my two volumes new edition

In a letter to Whitman on March 1, 1877, Carpenter wrote: "Your two volumes with my name written in them

are my faithful companions."

Walt Whitman— My Dear Friend: I enclose a P.O. order for $10, in payment for a copy of your last book

Walt Whitman Esq My dear Sir: I ask you to excuse me for neglecting so long to answer your note.

It came to my house instead of the office and was consequently overlooked. It was Mrs.

The books are for my wife "Mary F.

—See my other letter, & address answer Care of Strahan & Co, 34 Paternoster Road.

Robert Browning (1812–1889), known for his dramatic monologues, including "Porphyria's Lover" and "My

One of his own countrymen (a press correspondent) thus writes of him— The only American prophet to my

He has no respect for artificial barriers to poetic inspiration:— "In my opinion the time has arrived

In my opinion, I say, while admitting that the venerable and heavenly forms of chiming versification

"Yes, my brethren, oh!

And thee, My Soul! Joys, ceaseless exercises, exaltations!

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

Mr Whitman, Dear Sir, My friend & yours Mr Joaquin Miller tells me that the best way to gratify a long-cherished

greatest men of our age both abroad & at home; & when I remember your work during our dreadful war, my

heart as well as my pride is touched, & I cannot though a stranger to you, forbear presenting to the

true man a nobler title even than that of the true poet, my profoundest respect & admiration— With sincere

431 Stevens st Street —cor West Camden N New Jersey U S America May 5 '76 1876 My dear friend, Yours

$10 the set—$5 each Vol. can be had separately, or together, as wanted—Each will contain portraits & my

The Two, Leaves and Rivulets comprise my complete works (the latter Vol. as you see, includes Memoranda

I heartily thank my good friends of the Secularist .

with the baby boy, my brother's 6 months infant, very fine & bright, (of course)—takes much of my time

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

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

(Now, if there were living near me, such people that I could take my Walt Whitman books with me, and

I dont don't want my your books worn out by borrow ers but I like to lend them as I feel like—sending

I see that I can get (or have) the means to come and pay my own way, first and last.

All stubbornly at my own expense. As I write this, I am not disposed to come there.

As I have exhausted my sheet, I forbear giving news of the situation with us, till such is called for

previously published in Leaves of Grass, "Passage to India" was Whitman's attempt to "celebrate in my

I believe I mentioned in my note at the time that it had also been sent to the London Times and Chicago

My dear Sir:— Your letter of the 5th, with enclosure has just reached me.

I have already written you my approval of your three communications in the L[ondon] D[aily] News & will

[say] that in my opinion (& now with fullest deliberation reäffirming it) all the points assumed as

I shall (as I see now) continue to be my own publisher & bookseller.

Each book has my autograph. The Two Volumes are my complete works, $10 the set.

works in Two Volumes, with autograph & portraits, or some other of my books.

Just a line of birthday greeting, my dearest Friend.

May all that will do you good come my dearest Friend–and not least the sense of relief & joy in having

That is what I believe as surely as I believe in my own existence.

best for us to go to New York (only I want to go at once where we are likeliest to stop, because of my

Solemn thoughts outleaping life, immortal aspirations of my Soul toward your soul.

Camden New Jersey U S America May 19 I have this day forwarded to you by mail—same address as this card— my

N W | F 6 | Paid | My 29 | 76."

My work is extremely personal—rightly considered so—and on the fly-leaf of each volume I have put my

photograph with my own hand."

I have printed my own works, and am now printing them in two volumes, for sale.

I am living here at my brother's house.

A paralysis of the left side, which chiefly affects my left leg and thigh, hinders me.

My friend is a great admirer of yours. him and I have lately been reading your "Leaves of Grass" and

&c &c sent June 8 '76 by Ex & rec'd June 1st JQA Ward 9 or 10 Vols, &c sent, by Ex My dear Mr Whitman

I inclose check for Fifty dollars ($50) my subscription for five copies of your complete works If I

Be kind enough to send them to my address.

two met while studying at Cambridge University and then, as Carpenter recounted in his autobiography (My

relative of yours and daughter of Elizabeth Burroughs nee Wheeler, I guess you will pardon the liberty my

you would come and make us a visit you when in Woodside some. by sending love of the united family My

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

Your subscription for my Book is received—for which hearty thanks.

June 17 John, I have just been reading your Galaxy article, seated by the open window front room in my

entire lines in the second column of the page about me (which finally please me best)—& had made up my

very decidedly as aforesaid—then when I did read them, you can imagine they didn't hurt me much—nor my

estimation of the piece— I have much to write—or tell you—about my own concerns—things in England—here

Lou are well—baby only pretty well—hot weather, & teething—(but behaves like a little hero)—expect my

not live another day; I cannot can not rest, O God — eat Or drink or sleep, till I put forth myself, My

West, where "In a far-away faraway northern county, in the placid, pas- toral pastoral region, Lives my

farmer-friend farmer friend , the theme of my recitative, a famous Tamer of Oxen ." : This is a worthy

26 , & of the 29 May, previously acknowledged) All gives me entire satisfaction & comfort—arousing my

I have not yet my pay for the little Man-of-War-Bird in nor the prose piece on the War in the Examiner

lately to T., as I supposed him abroad on the continent—but I intend to write soon—& send him a set of my

T. sees my poems —but I do his , & strongly, (& there perhaps I have the advantage of him)—but I think

Kent —Has the Secularist my address?

In the spring, when commencing to plow, I was feeling poorly, and my 13 year old boy to g .

me the pleasure I have had with Walt Whitman's books and to the books also—I'll (Please excuse all my

—I claim a patent right for the my old terms "champion of nature" and "good-enough man" &c &c If you

feel a little desire to "dig at the ribs" of demoralizing superstition) Why didnt didn't you notice my

t to doubt whether my friends get unmistakably true " Philosopher" JNJ John Newton Johnson Send only

Evidently very intelligent and well-bred—very affectionate—held on to my hand, and put it to his face

Camden, New Jersey July 7th, 1876 My dear Reid: I send a piece for the paper, on Custer's death.

If it doesn't come with this it will be because of my being compelled to go down to Washington as a witness

If by reason of my absence it should be overlooked, pray remind me of it.

431 Stevens st Camden N Jersey July 11 My dear Philip Hale I have rec'd received your p o post office

order for $10 for my books—for which hearty thanks.