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"My writing days are done—all done!" Had he read Morse's paper? "Yes! and enjoyed it, too.

He laughed, too, "No, made one in my old age, by long trials!"

And to my "yes" reached back to the table next him and brought forth a bottle.

Give him my love and this bottle!"

Of my real innerness he knows less than I do!"

And I intended writing Tom a little note about it—to give him my thanks."

But say, also, that my friends hardly understand—some of them—the real severity of my bladder trouble

I have had to revise several of my notions about photos.

But, Horace, the picture attracts me—puts blood into my old corpus!"

And oysters are my dish. Think of them—their best specimens!

Give him my love, tell him you found me here, tell him the beautiful note nestled to its place in my

If I will send you copy of my lecture on Shakespeare will you read it to Whitman?

I have put some in my cellar."

W. asked, "My proofs? Not come yet?" I was to have them Monday.

And now, Horace, if you write to the Colonel, don't forget my love.

Wallace's letter of 22nd dwells upon duties to me in my service for W. Loving and uplifting.

time you have all been privileged to participate in during the past week & am now longing & straining my

greatly enjoyed—but I know you will understand & take the will for the deed.I am off to Scotland, to my

Home (Annan) in a few days for a short visit to my good dear old Father & Mother.My love to your dear

"I pay it, as I pay my plumber—under protest. Yes, the laborer is worthy of his hire.

You know my notions. Make him understand them. I have to trust mainly to you anyway."

I was going along Pennsylvania Avenue one day—in my usual easy-go-lucky way—this way and that—taking

that time, asked me about some dates, saying very frankly, 'You are an old printer and will appreciate my

"No, I feel I have reached my finale. What more needs be said?"

It did my eyes good to see her again. She seemed to bring the whole past back with her."

And in fact it has long been one of my cherished thoughts."

And she assured me I could have everything my own way with them."

A great many of my things here used to disappear that way."

And he gave me some of the slip reprints of my Post piece of 1st (reprinted on four-page leaflet).

It sends the blood to my extremities!"

esteemed and venerable friend, Walt Whitman, has just published a booklet which he calls 'Good Bye My

For my purposes—having my schema—I had almost to go ignorant of anything else.

—"But I was a devoted lover of the Church all my days on earth."

Near their rallying place I had been born (Manchester) if my parents had put off their voyage for a single

Will you return to them my cordial thanks and good wishes.

How proudly my father & mother will drop their tears on the message!...Ever,John H.

My memory plays me the devil's own trips." Will "try" to "have it made ready tomorrow."

I stamped it out with my foot. But for the chance of my presence, things may have gone evil.

My dear Walt— You will find the article you sent will be in the Times of this morning, when it is published

My brother William sailed for Port Royal ten days ago—to be present at the attack on Charleston—if it

would be of any service to you in any way, I know he would be rejoiced to serve you, if you mentioned my

I got it, looked into it with wonder, and felt that here was something that touched on depths of my humanity

Somerville February 12, 1864 My dear Walt Whitman.

I have seen the new moon over my right shoulder to some purpose lately.

Give my love to the O'Connors. Good bye. Your friend, J. T. Trowbridge John T.

biography, The Ferry Boy and the Financier (Boston: Walker and Wise, 1864); he described their meetings in My

Though Trowbridge was not an idolator of Whitman, he wrote to O'Connor in 1867: "Every year confirms my

On October 18, 1863, Babbitt was depressed—"dark clouds seem to be lying in my pathway and I can not

remove them nor hide them from my mind"—until he mentioned his beloved, Nellie F.

Of the O'Connors, Thomas Jefferson Whitman wrote on June 13, 1863: "I am real glad, my dear Walt, that

biography, The Ferry Boy and the Financier (Boston: Walker and Wise, 1864); he described their meetings in My

Though Trowbridge was not an idolator of Whitman, he wrote to O'Connor in 1867: "Every year confirms my

On October 18, 1863, Babbitt was depressed—"dark clouds seem to be lying in my pathway and I can not

remove them nor hide them from my mind"—until he mentioned his beloved, Nellie F.

Still I wish to say how much I have enjoyed all things here & how much I regret to have to make my stay

I read Doctor my essay ( N.E. Mag. ) Sunday night.

He set me on my feet with certain improvements in phraseology, on the point of your Washington sickness

He thinks your & my terminology when we get off on that field lamentable if not laughable.

I am busy as a bee today over my reprint.

Dear Walt Whitman: Pray forgive my long silence. I have been deep in troubles of my own.

I know the purity and righteousness of your meaning, but that does not alter my regret.

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

I am in great mourning that I can't get my reply to Richard Grant White on the Bacon-Shakespeare matter

I hope, therefore, my paragraphing may be permitted by the benignant printer.

I was horrified to learn that my footnote about Lowell was set as per copy.

The note, I guess, will have to stand as it is, for I am at the disadvantage of having left my annotated

My name is Promptness. Good printer-man, thou, too, be not obdurate, but grant me a revise!

I am rummaging my memory for an epigraph for the appendix, as you requested.

occurred to me that your moving may make it desirable to have some extra cash just now, and so I send you my

Alma was sorely disappointed at my not bringing you home with us Sunday and hope you will very soon visit

Traubel Camden, July 3, '79 To W.W My dear friend, I'll write you a few words again—for this warm weather

My curiosity has not abated by one jot and I would esteem it a favor if you would let me know at least

My bias is for Dickens. I like a good aim of pathos in a novel—nothing maudlin but all natural.

I think I referred to it in one of my last letters. Write soon! Yours hastily, H. L. T.

My regards to —— those : Emerson, Whitman, Major Stearns , , and the rest of the good fellows!

find in them so much encouragement and hope, and such a great personality, that I write to express my

But I take back my promise. For if you are not sane what will writing avail?

It is a waste of breath for my friend to tell me I am healthy when my pulse records the circumstance

Dillingham Co: New York), he writes of Whitman: "Whitman gave a few readings under my management during

My Dear Walt.

This is my apology for this intrusion.

want the to appear as it was in the pamphlet, a form which always pleased us both, and you will see by my

with a carefully transcribed printer's copy of the pamphlet, and it is evident that the galoot has had my

My Good Gray reads really well in the new version. I had no idea it was so good!!

If I get a revise, I will correct: if not, you please have an "s" put on to my "lightning"—it is more

a heavy cold on the chilly Sound boat in returning from Providence, which increased seriously after my

return, and developed into a bad attack of erysipelas, with which my head and face were well covered

He was so pleased with the epigraph, and so particularly pleased, as it seemed, with my enthusiastic

for Comstock, and shows that he is on the descending plane, down which I hope, and indeed heard, that my

He took my dare beautifully meek, I must say.

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.

It is all out of my hands now, and I do hope everything will turn out well.

The P.M.G usually treats me rather cavalierly over my own things: the young fellows who do the literary

Did you ever read his Story of My Heart?

I, too, often doubt any absolute empire, even the most cosmic, over the human will: that is my feeling

All my sceptical rejection of creeds and dogmas is giving place to a sense of the eternal fitness of

In my blind unreasoning egotism I mistook the shadow for the substance, and thought that "religion" was

Forgive my illogical desultory manner of writing. I think you will understand all I would convey.

I hope you will continue writing me such notes as these, "My food nourishes me better."

My love to W.W. J.B. John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 16 October 1888

My dear Walt, I regret to say I was unable to do anything with the proof of Personalism.

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

editorial decisions, which included editing potentially objectionable content and removing entire poems: "My

Copenhagen, August 18, 1875 My dear Walt Whitman.

Society, I pressed him for two years ago (when he had previously sent me some very fine articles for my

But all the striking expressions, all the elaborate work of the thought, is fading away beneath my feather

I am never saying exactly what I would say, and you know, my dear friend, that this is a great pain to

the one you propose—to stereotype, advertise and push it—implies an expenditure that may be beyond my

Shall I live to write my Shakespeare book and a score of gorgeous romances?

Rely on me, Walt, for anything you want done here, or anything at all in my power.

Of the O'Connors, Thomas Jefferson Whitman wrote on June 13, 1863: "I am real glad, my dear Walt, that

My dear Walt.

from the booksellers for the present, so I sent you today a package of such books as I could pick from my

Good-bye, my dear friend, and may the good angels help you in your good work. J. T. Trowbridge.

biography, The Ferry Boy and the Financier (Boston: Walker and Wise, 1864); he described their meetings in My

Though Trowbridge was not an idolator of Whitman, he wrote to O'Connor in 1867: "Every year confirms my

See Trowbridge, My Own Story, with recollections of noted persons (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903), 179

My dear Walt: I am enraged and ashamed of myself to have never sent you a word responsive to your letters

It was such rain as we have often seen here from my windows, only this time I saw it all alone.

The rascally Congress taxes me in September fifty dollars in a lump, besides my normal income tax, so

Of the O'Connors, Thomas Jefferson Whitman wrote on June 13, 1863: "I am real glad, my dear Walt, that

Ellen O'Connor related in a letter on November 24, 1863, that the Count had said to her recently: "My

I do not know what I carry in my arms pressed close to my side and bosom!

I turn my steps to "Zion's Mill" a cemetery.

My womb is clean and pure. It is ready for thy child my love.

how lovingly will I cherish and guard it, our child my love. Thine the pleasure my love.

My motives are pure and holy. Our boy my love! Do you not already love him?

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

Were I near you I should like to have the honor of paying my personal respects to you.

If you would write your name upon my 1855 edition, which I intend to present to a public library, I should

Grass were now in the possession of Horace Wentworth, a Boston publisher, whom Thayer characterized as "My

I do not know what they cost, but my impression is, that it was somewhere in the neighborhood of $800

Lincoln and celebrating ill contain the Russell Lowell election from , state papers and lett to inclu My

Commemoration Ode," which has often, since its publication, been contrasted with Whitman's own tribute, "O Captain

My Captain!" For further information on Whitman's views of Lowell, see William A.

Bent to the very earth, here preceding what follows, Terrified with myself that I have dared to open my

whose echoes recoil upon me, I have not once had the least idea who or what I am, But that before all my

And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me!

"Beginning my studies, the first step pleased me so much, The mere fact, consciousness—these forms—the

pleas'd me so much, I have never gone, and never wish'd to go, any further, But stop and loiter all my

import of his first book ("without yielding an inch, the working-man and working-woman were to be in my

succeeding poem, we have him clearly in trance, and the impressing spirit speaking through him:— Take my

see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, Do not weep for me, This is not my

Here is one which again proclaims his purpose:— I stand in my place, with my own day, here.

And what are my miracles? 2.

side, and some behind, and some embrace my arms and neck.

GuiyouHuang"Beginning My Studies" (1865)"Beginning My Studies" (1865)This poem first appeared in the

declaration not to become a systematic or aggressive student of philosophy.In theme and tone "Beginning My

"Beginning My Studies" (1865)

Buds" (1891)"Unseen Buds" first appeared in 1891 in the second annex of Leaves of Grass, "Good-Bye my

later editions.However, when read along with "The Unexpress'd," "Grand is the Seen," and "Good-Bye my

My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Boston: Beacon, 1985.Chari, V.K.