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431 Stevens st Camden NJ Thanks my dear friend for your hospitable & affectionate letter, & invitations

I was so much obliged to you for your good letter about my sister & all, & your kind invitation to my

431 Stevens street Camden N J July 11 p m My dear friend I kept staying & staying in N Y (four weeks

altogether)—but took the 4 p m train yesterday & had a fine run to Philadelphia—So here I am to-day today in my

a great accumulation of letters—all those of the past month—so you will understand several things (my

going down to White Horse Saturday —No letter from Bee yet—I suppose you the Tribune of July 4 with my

hours every day (sometimes I think it as good in its way as the Creek)—I go about nearly the same, my

lameness no better (occasionally pretty bad, worse) but my feelings of comfort & strength in general

know him) — Sunday 14th Rather cold, the feeling of snow, but dry & pleasant in a way—I sell some of my

Do you see any thing of my friend Josiah Child?

office, London General Post Office) has written to me twice in the interest of publishing a Vol: of my

St Louis Missouri (1000 miles west of Philadelphia) Nov 10 '79 My dear friend Just rec'd received your

city, & Colorado generally,—with Kansas and Missouri—wonders, revelations I wouldn't have miss'd for my

soon be well enough to return home to Camden— I enclose a rude map which will show you the line of my

jaunt—the red lines are of my present trip, while the blue lines are of former journeys of mine, may

long—(my sickness has prevented hitherto what I designed to write) —My sister, brother & nieces all

about Herb's picture, he calls September Days —(name not very good, but will do)—Picture itself, in my

treatment no following of any thing Herb has done before — Our folks are well as usual—(it is toward noon)—My

sister is off to church somewhere—brother down stairs balancing his acct's accounts —I up here in my

with me—Though the rheumatism is not severe—any thing like its first attack—it still keeps its hold—my

Tuesday, (two perfect days) —& expect to be down there next Sunday— —The Staffords are all about as usual—My

Poetry in America"—(it is a Vol: Volume of Bohn's Standard Library)—It is a good collection—he gives my

third story room,—just after 4 p m—my sister down stairs sewing—it is very quiet in the house, almost

lonesome—my brother away far in Pennsylvania at his work—& no, or very few visitors lately—The weather

pretty cold—Still it is spring here—evidences every way, every day—Much singing of birds, on some of my

Camden May 1 My dear friend I have come up from White Horse, & think of visiting you tomorrow Wednesday—towards

Botta: My dear Madam: I sent you by mail about three weeks ago, (in compliance with your request of April

13,) the MS. of one of my poems, "O Star of France"—also a photographic portrait.

Botta, My dear Madam, In answer to your request of some days since, I send you the MS. of a small piece

Maybe while there are so many with you I had better sleep over in Camden, & Herby & Mr Burroughs take my

Andy, my dear comrade—I rec'd yours of 24th, with enclosure of letter. Two others previously.

Andy, my programme is, to vote here early Tuesday forenoon, & then start immediately for Washington—So

I am having good times here, rather quiet—My book is being printed—gets along rather slowly.

almost every afternoon—then sometimes a sail on the river or bay—so you see I am enjoying myself in my

way—with three or four hours work every day reading my proofs, &c— Andy, I suppose you are all getting

along as usual—I enclose a line to Mat, which please give him—I send my love to you, Frank, Mat & Lewis

The reason is that my book, which is a little more than half done, does not get along as fast as the

Andy, dear boy, I hope my delay of a few days will not put you out—Write to me, & tell me about the office

, & my friends there.

Don't forward any letters that come after Friday next, but put them in my drawer.

Once more—I send my love to you & all. Walt Walt Whitman to Andrew Kerr, 10 September 1866

in the two lists of sheets on hand—yours had it that Sheet B, 2d consisted of only 225 sheets—while my

1868, Walt Whitman informed Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Proud Music of the Storm" was "put in type for my

frontispieces prepared for them (see front of the vols)—& send them over again by this boy, & I will put my

Editor Let me give you some flying impromptu notes confessedly all too meager (a hiatus every where) of my

My dear Mr. Editor, Would this piece be available for the Magazine?—The price is $100.

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Dec: 3, '81 Dear Sir I send you a fair proof of my Emerson article

April 13 '79 My dear Sir To break the tedium of my half-invalidism—& as an experiment—I have come on

It will be the whole expression of the design which I had in my mind When I Began to Write.

Now, that is the way it has been with my book. It has been twenty-five years building.

"My poetry," continued Mr.

But I have accepted it all as a part of my work.

Many of my friends have no patience with my opinion on this matter.

this fine sunny crispy day—cross'd the Delaware—walk'd up Chestnut st—every thing lovely—look'd in at my

Sir Yours of yesterday rec'd received —in response to which—without further ceremony—I forward you my

Rand & Avery's Monday noon Sept: September 5 '81 My dear friend Although it is abominable for me to back

up from a three weeks' visit down in the Jersey woods, & find your card of 26th—The only copies of my

complete poems "Leaves of Grass," in my control, are of a special autograph & portrait edition, 1882

Walt Whitman I also supply, when desired, my prose volume "Specimen Days & Collect"—price $2.—374 pages

Camden Thursday afternoon March 28 My dear friends I am still grunting & unable to go out Walt Whitman

New Jersey Dec: December 28 '80 Dear Sir I shall be glad to supply you with a set (Two Volumes) of my

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey June 20 '87 Thank you my friend for the delicious chocolate—I have

it for my breakfast frequently, & enjoy it—Please accept a copy of my little book "Specimen Days" London

My dear sir, You can get any or all my Books at J. S. Redfield, 140 Fulton street, upstairs, N. Y.

. . . last letter—I wrote to H day before yesterday—I am at my 2d annex for L of G.

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

[Whitman referred to "My Long Island Antecedents" and to a favorable review of Leaves of Grass in the

Whitman sent "My Long Island Antecedents" to The North American Review on October 29, but it was returned

received —I have some copies of John Burroughs's Notes on W W as Poet & Person , 2d 2nd edition under my

Of my own works, complete edition, the enclosed circular will give you the particulars.

Camden, New Jersey 1876 Your subscription for my Book is received—for which hearty thanks.

firm was in bankruptcy, Redfield noted that the balance due Whitman ($63.45) "will have to go in with my

I think my estate will pay 50 cents on the dollar: hope so at any rate."

The last edition of my poems complete I publish & sell myself.

No, I have had no call to deliver my Lincoln lecture in New York or Brooklyn this Spring—& no arrangements

I always carry a stout double-pocket haversack, filled with things—also large pockets in my coat &c—I

have learnt what is appropriate—I generally carry a bottle of wine—I buy oranges by the box, & fill my

My dear mother is living & well; we speak of you. I wish you to give my best respects & love to Mr.

I shall have to try a head of him presently for my American Gallery: Emerson, Thoreau, and Walt" (The

Camden NJ US America April 22 '89 Y'r welcome letter has come & Mary's word—my best love to all, not

My Dear friend I am so sorry to hear by Johnny that you are ill, & suffering—I wish I could send you

new with me—a dark sulky day outside, cold yet not quite cold enough to freeze—no visitors—have had my

thro' a snow storm) just before sunset—So you see I do get around some—(when I am helped—not much of my

Boston, Sept: September 24 1881 Dear Alma Every thing is going on & has gone on satisfactorily—My book

plate-casting, & if things turn out wrong any way I shall have only myself to blame, for I have had my

is always welcome—John's good letter was rec'd this forenoon & is cheery & hospitable as always—Yes my

—I may come to New York & see you all—We will see how the cat jumps—I still remain in my sick room—tho

—This week so far the temperature has been just right here—My little booklet November Boughs is ab't

disjointed paper on "Elias Hicks" —the publication will be delayed yet a number of weeks—I am sitting up in my

BOSTON,__________188 Monday noon Oct: October 10 '81 My dear friend Yours rec'd received , & thanks—I

still linger along here—the printing of my book is finished—but one or two little things I want to see

word a day beforehand—I am well as usual—Have had a very pleasant time here, & the book printed &c. to my

last year—good spirits (sort o') but physically disabled almost utterly—Fine sunny days I get out in my

wheel chair for an hour or two—generally however am anchored here in my big ratan chair with the wolf-skin

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey March 4 '85 My dear friends Your letter comforts & touches me deeply

Davis, strong & hearty & good natured, a widow, young enough, furnishes me my meals, & takes good care

—Soon as you get this write me how John is getting along—Last Saturday's Critic has a piece about my

dear boy—and though you must now be indeed quite different from the little child I used to lift up in my

In response to your letter I send—not my whole volume of Leaves of Grass —but Drum-Taps , a part of it

published by John Burroughs, who, being a great friend of mine, views every thing relating to me & my

—I send you my love, & I wish you to give my friendliest remembrances to your parents.

My dear friends, N. M. and J. B.

you word, in advance—The picture of the dear daughter will be welcome—I should also like another of my

dear loving boy Alfred, as soon as he gets any late ones, if he does so— So good bye & God bless you, my

dear friends, & my love to all.