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Sunday, August 11th/67 My dear Walt I received your letter and was right glad to get it I am in rather

fashionable calls but of course I must submit to it. but what I enjoy most of any thing else is sitting in my

aweful awful scene and I do not want to witness another for I must say I never was so frightened in my

when he flew at me again and said he did not mean to hurt me but now he Be D_ if he would'nt knock my

Jeff would do a rash act any quicker than I or you would he is naturrally naturally so good and kind my

back achued ached two or three days and it made Jeff very angry I do not have Jess up in my room any

have so much trouble she feels it more now than ever before but I can never consent to have him in my

for St Louis this afternoon he was very sorry that he could not see you. but I am certainly coming on my

her out a great deal and it improves her much Jessie is not behind her they both study hard and it is my

L OUIS March 30th, 18 70 My dear Walt I suppose you think strange that I hav'nt written you before but

work goes on well we have delightful weather here everything looks like Spring I am glad I put off my

been ample and I should have enjoyed a visit with Mrs O Conner very much indeed Please convey to them my

love and express to them my hearty thanks for their kindness—also say to Mrs O C and family that we

Dear Sir, My brother wishes me to inform you of the state of his health, also of his journey home he

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.

Dear Sir I feel that as my brothers friend you have been neglecred but owing to sickness in the family

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.

It happens that I was one of these children—my Father was Solicitor of the Treasury, Edward Jordan.

My vacation, between these dates will be spent in Elizabeth New Jersey, so that we can come down to Camden

16 New King Street Bath England December 17. 1891 My dear sir, Having seen by a paragraph in the Pall

First I wish to have the new one, Goodbye, My Fancy.

My edition of Specimen Days is 1883 by Wilson Glasgow, with a photograph.

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

Please accept my best wishes that the year we have entered upon may bring to you much calm peacefulness

I am, my dear sir, yours very truly and gratefully, Mary Ashley Mary Ashley to Walt Whitman, 7 January

These days I seem to need something: seem to be looking for something—feeling towards it: something my

your life, and found myself weeping at the close—for it brought back as plainly as if but yesterday my

earliest recollections of yourself in connection with my father, and "dear Old Brooklyn."

You I think, fully understand my Father—the American people have yet to learn his real merit I have deeply

No 109 North Carolina Av Atlantic City September 3d 1888 My Dear Mr Whitman Frank and I read your "Old

I think you will be interested to know that my cousin, of whom I have made mention to you as being intimate

My dear Mr Whitman, I send you Alys' circular letter and will you please mail it to Miss Nicholson after

I am spending my summer among the Blue Ridge mountains in a place that belongs jointly to my mother and

my aunt Mrs Pearsall Smith.

I don't know whether you remember a young man whom you met at my Uncles several times Tom Worthington

I still intend to continue my course at Bryn Mawr College which will be three years longer and then I

This has been my life:— From early morn till evening, I've labored here for naught, And others coming

"And some other coming after—," When I've fallen by the way— With a touch completes my life work— And

turn, suffered leaf-flight and twig-flight, and with a fair enough outside, shall fall, at last, with my

sometimes nips ahead and sometimees sometimes tuck but in the main we are all right as long as I only have my

will and would like very much to see you whenever you feel as if you could come or any of the rest of my

I feel myself growing old and failing every day but my health has been better this winter than usual

Greenport Dec 23 Dear Brother Walter I received a letter from you last night and an order for my annual

thing about it in your letter I am not feeling well at all this winter not sick abed but a pain in my

expect pains and aches as we are growing old but I am thankful I am no worse can get around and do my

Whitman, Thy welcome card came just as we were leaving London last week, after a very sad week with my

I am using these days of leisure to mature a scheme of education for Ray, & enlarge my list of books

I am on the Free Trade side, in spite of my American upbringing.

gets a chance of seeing him in the seething side of affairs in this great city, but I am going to make my

I should have been glad to die before I had left such a message as my last utterance, the final outcome

But I am disobeying my doctor, who has forbidden long letters for the present.

I am so grateful to thee for seeing him—I suppose it was my letter he presented?

He has been a very intimate friend of my husband's since their College days, but I do not know him very

I have an accumulation of 20 letters to write today—so I must make my first one short.

Whitman I think it must have been my guardian angel that gave thee the "impalpable nudge" to write to

I am worse & not better, & now I have to go off for I don't know how long to the Pyrennees, leaving my

My road has seemed so shut up—I am laid aside in the midst of all the work I care for—fit for nothing—and

It is not so unhappy for me, because for several years all my work has been given to what seems to me

Rukh–mabai, my Indian friend was with us—her first visit to Oxford, and she was tremendously interested

This is a most unsatisfactory letter—but I feel as if the fog had got into my head.

But I must not make my letter longer—I shall look forward to seeing you soon, and I hope you will be

In his 1936 autobiography, Masters wrote, "What had enthralled me with Whitman from my days with Anne

little son, Prince Arthur, who was taken prisoner by his usurping uncle: "Grief fills the room up of my

had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.— I will not keep this form upon my

head, When there is such disorder in my wit.

My boy, my Arthur, my fair son!

My life, my joy, my food, my all in the world, My widow–comfort, and my sorrow's cure!"

Overman Captain Corps of Engineers, Austin, Texas.

Miller, who has been appointed as my successor, has not yet qualified, and I have been informed that

the 6th inst. relative to proceedings pending in your District "to confiscate the property of the Captain

In respect to the interest of Captain Goodwin, no difficulty is perceived.

It is not perceived that Captain Goodwin is to blame for this, but it is equally difficult to see how

as one who values your writings more than I can ever attempt to express, please allow me to express my

Your teachings rest always in my mind like gleams of sunlight upon the pathway of the future, & I may

write a leading article without trying, as much as lies within me, to hold your "Democratic Vistas" in my

wish I might myself give you the special hand grasp which he gave me for you, but I can only send you my

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

Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Friday, September 13, 1889 and Saturday, September 14, 1889: "My

& Collect from Rees Welsh after one printing, and later published November Boughs (1888), Good-Bye My

all—aplomb in the midst of irrational things, Imbued as they—passive, receptive, silent as they, Finding my

woods, or of any farm-life of These States, or of the coast, or the lakes, or Kanada, Me, wherever my

all—aplomb in the midst of irrational things, Imbued as they—passive, receptive, silent as they, Finding my

of any farm- life farm-life of These States, or of the coast, or the lakes, or Kanada, Me, wherever my

aplomb in the midst of irrational things, Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they, Finding my

woods or of any farm-life of these States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada Canada , Me wherever my

aplomb in the midst of irrational things, Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they, Finding my

woods or of any farm-life of these States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada Canada , Me wherever my

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

In the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass , Whitman included the lines: "Who learns my lesson complete?

My Lesson Have you learned my lesson complete: It is well—it is but the gate to a larger lesson—and And

mother generations guided me, / My embryo has never been torpid . . . . nothing could overlay it; /

All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me, / Now I stand on this spot with my

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

White noted a relationship between these pages and the poems "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?

the CBS series Northern Exposure featured disc jockey Chris Stevens reading passages and discussing "my

My original intention was to create a comprehensive edition of Whitman interviews, an ambition that seemed

My research into the development of the interview genre made it clear that conceiving interviews as necessarily

I am reminded of the matter now by a note from my friend Nugent Robinson of Once a Week .

Philadelphia, May 21 st 189 1 My dear Mr. Whitman: Thanks.

(I think I see my friends smiling at this confession, but I was never more in earnest in my life.)

The rebel Captain then shot him—but at the same instant he shot the Captain.

I can say that in my ministerings I comprehended all, whoever came in my way, Northern or Southern, and

Also, same Reg't., my brother, Geo. W.

Let me try to give my view.

Robert LeighDavisMemoranda During the War [1875–1876]Memoranda During the War [1875–1876]"My idea is

Within a short time, my Cincinnati accent in English and my relatively (for an American) voluble Russian

But what he opened up for my eyes and my heart was the genuine Russia that lay behind, and sometimes

voice approach Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.

with your hand,/Don't be afraid of my body").

("Don't be afraid, it is not fearful/my body!").

and who are forever enshrined in his—and civic—memory and as a significant theme of the dirge.In "O Captain

My Captain!"

The president is described as the fallen captain of the ship of state he had steered to victory.

Among my earliest indiscretions was Walt Whitman.

fame and no peril to my immortal soul, not to speak of my standing in society?

Whitman was the author of the lines, and my quoting them among my earliest indiscretions.

No one can read "My Captain" or "Pioneers" without seeing that there was capacity for music in the man

Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.

"My eyes are feeling pretty badly, and yesterday and to-day I consulted Dr.

I have lost my poise in walking and cannot promenade at all.

I go out every day in my carriage, and a friend of mine, Willie Duckett, a neighbor's little boy, always

I still retain my hopeful, bouyant spirits. I feel better to-night than I have for several days."

Aug. 31/69 My dear Walt Whitman, I have the advantage of you—I know you well—"My soul embraces you this

Last Summer, and this I have been living in the woods, with "Leaves of Grass" beside me, one of my rustic

know him well—I hope some of these days I may have the pleasure of a visit from him— I am spending my

change—but will be at home in a few weeks—and will be pleased to see you at any time— Hope you will pardon my

Brookfield is quoting from from Whitman's poem ultimately titled "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?