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with George Washington Whitman in the Fifty-first New York Volunteers, and he rose to the rank of captain
Mason who "used to be in my party on the Water Works" in his February 10, 1863 to Walt Whitman.
Brooklyn 8 July 1868 July th 8th My dear Walt i have received your letter to day wensday Wednesday dident
any change in your place but we must take things as they come no more this time walter Walter dear) my
hand is letter lame that the letter is wrote quite bad give my love to an mrs Mrs. oconor O'Connor and
Walt Whitman was proud of Dutch ancestry on his mother's side: "I may say I revel, even gloat, over my
6 9 june 8 My dear walt i got your letter and you may expect i was glad enoughf enough to hear you was
1871 febuary February 9 My dear walt Walt i write a few lines to say i received your letter yesterday
Hudson River horror is awful in the extreme it is enoughf enough to make one shudder) i am better of my
cold but are quite lame it seems as if the pain and lameness is all settled in my left knee i can walk
but yesterday i was quite bad but i think it will be better in a day or two i have had a weakness in my
right hand and wrist you can see by my writing it looks some like yours when your thumb was so bad how
went up stairs and went to bed and said nothing g ot up in the morning and was busy fixing the fire in my
write doo how you are i hope you wont won't get s ick i feel quite well since i have got better of my
1863 letter to Jeff Whitman reported a "bad humming feeling and deafness, stupor-like at times, in my
14 May '68 thursday Thursday My dear Walt i write to tell you that janey maquire that is nanc Nancy brothers
I opened the door, and stood for a moment on the threshold before I could find my voice to speak.
What was my horror when, right in the midst of the exposure, the old bard waved his hand majestically
that Walt acted as a substitute father to his brothers and sisters, as he suggests in an early story, "My
"I nourish active rebellion," Whitman challenges (section 14); "Camerado, I give you my hand!
with him I love" (1860 Leaves), but even for Whitman, the decision to publicly "tell the secret of my
Perhaps he was thinking of Vaughan when he wrote, "This the far-off depth and height reflecting my own
that he would "confront peace, security, and all the settled laws, to unsettle them" ("As I Lay with My
New-York is my birth-place.
Of my brothers and sisters I shall introduce only one, my brother Matthew, not quite two years younger
I was intended for the profession of the law; though, being lazy in my studies, it was not until my twenty-first
The very first day of my appearance there, about the middle of the morning, there came to see my master
My eyesight seemed to waver, my head felt dizzy, and a feeling of deadly nausea came over me.
withthelatestincrease.Iamto-day,(May31,1861,)justforty-twoyears old—for I write this introduction on my
To the best of my knowledge, pensive has not received any consideration in Whitman criticism, and yet
— Bloss Branched Le Verdure , blossom branch , fruit and vine The irregular tapping of rain off the my
If I am so fortunate as to regain my health I hope to weaken the force of that statement, at least in
sofar as my talent & training will permit.
My artistic enthusiasm was never so thoroughly stirred up as by the indians They certainly have more
meet and drawing their love in Never losing old friends, or new ones; and finding new on every day of my
Lowell was his bitterest enemy: "'Lowell never even tolerated me as a man: he not only objected to my
at this benefit Lowell is said to have exclaimed, "This has been one of the most impressive hours of my
They were also nearly exact contemporaries, and Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!"
Whitman: I have been very much interested in your hospital work, of which I have heard through my brother
My husband ("J.C.T.
but I am surprised to see that in Lippincott's (foot-note to p 381) you quote, instead of this, from my
Harrison's letters and have been comforting my soul with the idea that you prized the one I refer to,
fanciful imagination, whistled merrily, or moaned sadly, according to my thoughts.
emboldens me to ask whether my husband and I may not call upon you some day at your convenience.
Trautwine's note" in revising the Lippincott's piece for publication in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891): see
its want of courage Will you write on the enclosed sheet of paper a few words that I shall treasure—my
Sir, Having added the Editorship of this Magazine to my duties on the Pall Mall Gazette my thoughts at
Barcoure was a young man—like my hero.
Indeed it may be found, before the end of my story, that the right of main personage may lie between
advance any farther, it were well for me to remind the reader that I seek to paint life and men, in my
I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon, lo!
there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient; I see that the word of my
my city! The city of such women, I am mad to be with them!
I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon, lo!
there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient; I see that the word of my
my city! The city of such women, I am mad to be with them!
I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city, and behold!
there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient, I see that the word of my
my city! The city of such women, I am mad to be with them!
I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon lo!
there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient, I see that the word of my
my city!
My city's fit and noble name resumed, Choice aboriginal name, with marvellous beauty, meaning, A rocky
I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon lo!
there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient, I see that the word of my
my city!
(1871 Leaves).In the opening line of the poem Whitman asks for "something specific and perfect for my
Mannahatta [My city's fit and noble]
Now wait till I get my dress fixed and Papa waited and then she fell over & never spoke another word
ltter letter for me when I first came to the hospital I am glad to from eny one anyone write again my
friendly gifts in time of need may god help you throu through this world of trouble I had bad luck with my
others . . . want but I am glad to get along and be most well I can allways always find work again My
appeared uncorrected in the 5 January 1884 issue of the Critic with the title, A Backward Glance on My
combined with two other pieces of journalism (How I Made a Book, Philadelphia Press, 11 July 1886; My
smoke; By these, crowds, groups of forms, vaguely I see, on the floor, some in the pews laid down; At my
staunch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white as a lily;) Then before I depart I sweep my
resume as I chant—I see again the forms, I smell the odor; Then hear outside the orders given, Fall in, my
smoke; By these, crowds, groups of forms, vaguely I see, on the floor, some in the pews laid down; At my
staunch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white as a lily;) Then before I depart I sweep my
resume as I chant—I see again the forms, I smell the odor; Then hear outside the orders given, Fall in, my
smoke, By these, crowds, groups of forms vaguely I see on the floor, some in the pews laid down, At my
stanch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white as a lily,) Then before I depart I sweep my
resume as I chant, I see again the forms, I smell the odor, Then hear outside the orders given, Fall in, my
smoke, By these, crowds, groups of forms vaguely I see on the floor, some in the pews laid down, At my
stanch the blood temporarily, (the youngster's face is white as a lily,) Then before I depart I sweep my
resume as I chant, I see again the forms, I smell the odor, Then hear outside the orders given, Fall in, my
Russell, which came to us through my sister Miss Stevenson.
is pleasant to know where one has excited an interest, & in asking you to acknowledge its receipt, my
My direction is to care of Charles P. Curtis, Boston. With regard, I am, Margaret S.
very thankful to you for the kindness you have shown and Still Show to our poor boy i cant express My
from Culpeper William Did not think of asking what it would cost to Send him on to his frinds the captain
a Coffin they buryed him as Decently as they could by pining him up in a thick woolen blanket the captain
can tell you but little of the feelings of our hearts towards you for the intrest you have taken in My
we come Die both parents and children brothers and Sisters but i Shall tire your patience i was to My
called up on us with her Sister. she said was acquainted with your brothers family. her Sister lived in my
I got your Picture on Broadway near 28 st for my Friend Mrs Edward Smith the head of the C lothing Firm
As my great aims in life are PRO BONO PUBLICO, you may find it in your heart to say a POTENT thing or
two in my behalf.
TAYLOR 1193 Broadway New York has doubtlessly received 12 of my books within the last few days to "PLACE
all right it has allways always seemed to me since our Son came home that some of us should to you my
hard place indeed you have seen some of the hardship of it perhaps all you wish to see or even hear of my
and stay with me this winter they are with me this winter Joseph is in the lumberwoods this winter my
health is very good iwas I was not well for about one year after my husbands husband's death almost
to see you wemay we may see eachother each other yet sometime if you Canot Cannot read this send you my
afew a few lines that you may now know i I have you in rememberance remembrance yet you were kin to my
hospital afriend a friend in need is a friend indeed Bethuels father has gone to his home to rest and my
eachother each other yet our Children are anxious to see you the picture you sent Bethuel looks some like my
grandfather Deen that is my fathers father's father if Harvy Allen and Sally should go to philadelphia
about two miles from glensfalls Glens Falls iwent I went to meeting one Sunday evening and enjoyed my
fashioned hymns and old tunes it seemed like old times when young idont I dont now know as you can read my
riting writing but we feel anxious to hear from you and how you get along god bless you with my best
I should have replied immediately but for expecting my own picture from Boston a copy of which I have
My love to Mrs Benedict! Yours Sincerely Marie Blood.
It brings peace to my soul to know that I can read and understand Leaves of Grass.
"My Spirit to Yours" Dear Brother, Marilla B Minchen. Carroll. Iowa. MB Minchen Marilla B.
Dear Walt Whitman, "That my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing
Yes, and how "utterly quelled and defeated" too I have felt to find my strength so much less than my
each one the core of life, namely happiness, is full of the rotten excrement of maggots," and so in my
Leaves of Grass laid on my lightstand, and I opened to "Song of the Universe."
fast the world moves to me when I read such thoughts, and how slow when I carry them with me among my
Minchen is quoting from Whitman's poem "Who Learns My Lesson Complete."
Dec 6th 188 5 Mr Walt Whitman My Dear Old Friend.
volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My
that I will get there in the evening and I have no doubt when I call on Masons they will insist on my