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Lancashire, England. 15 March 1892 Dear Walt, Just a line or two my dearest friend, my comrade & father

, dearest of all to my soul, to express the triumph & joy & cheer with which I think of you & with which

Outwardly sad enough, but deep within my soul I know that all is well, & that our last words should be

Be it as if I were with you, & here upon the paper I send you one as a token of my dearest love X Wallace

do not read it it will serve as a token of love & best wishes which are the same always & come from my

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

Your name will be a sufficient warrant for my intruding upon his Alpine solitude and 7 months winter—in

I spent 3 days in Yorkshire last week—so ending my holiday.

And so,—though I have nothing else to write about,—I want to send you a line or two again to express my

loving sympathy with you and my best wishes.

room which D J's description & photographs have made so familiar—solitary and ill—It reminds me of my

mother's condition in her last years—lame, suffering & much alone—and my heart goes out to you like

Your great kindness—most fatherly, most tender—to D r Johnston & myself stirs my heart more deeply than

Thanks to you from my heart—and God bless you!

The "Rejoinder" was later reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) (see Prose Works 1892, Volume 2: Collect

—It has " grown " upon me very much, and authenticates itself, to my mind, more and more, as a true characteristic

I have glanced them over & find much to stir my appetite. But I must not write more now.

My cordial thanks to you.— D r Johnston has already told you of the open air meeting held by our friends

I am just beginning my holidays (long needed) & your book accompanies me in all my rambles.

blessed hours of sacred, vital communion with the wordless divine Spirit that informs all things and with my

The friends who have seen my copy are very much pleased with it, and have decided to present a copy to

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

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

yesterday morning to receive your kind post card of Dec br : 23 rd , & I thank you for it with all my

nerves, which is very slow to quit, & which, while it lasts, prevents me from doing any thing beyond my

And I trust that in good time, & by God's help, I shall be able to do so—perhaps all the better for my

Meanwhile, it is my proudest & dearest privilege to write to you, & to shew you something—(if nothing

better) of a love which is as that of a son, & of the gratitude & homage due to my greatest benefactor

July. 1891 My dear Walt Whitman, I have to thank you for your kind postcard of July 14 th received this

My heart goes out to you with yearning tenderness as I think of you sitting by the window, alone, weak

We had a short walk in the immediate neighbourhood, my father accompanying us.

"I put my Whitman work before everything else,—before my wife & family even, & no one needs to wish a

And I thank God, with all my heart, that even such a connection existed between us. .

It connects itself with memories of my mother's like condition—her only companion often a canary too.

In his March 9, 1892, letter to Traubel, Greenhalgh wrote that "Walt has taught me 'the glory of my daily

In all the departments of my life Walt entered with his loving personality & I am never alone" (Horace

Distance prevents me from putting my hand in yours in person.

Whitman, I know will receive with kindly heart my sincere greeting.

Knowing this I never attempted, during my talks with him, to question him or draw him out on any subject

And of course this applies also to my own account of him, as I saw him from day to day at a period very

manner he may have shown in earlier life, or on other occasions, no defects were ever observable in my

Whitman, late in life, said to Horace Traubel: "[I] take my Ruskin with some qualifications."

30, 1868, Whitman informed Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Proud Music of the Storm" was "put in type for my

Friend It is with Pleashure Pleasure I take the oppertunity opportunity of writing you a letter As my

written. they Are Splendid. their There is a Preaspeterian Presbyterian Minister Liveing living with my

My Mother & Father was My Mother Is very old I dont don't Suppose She will Be with us on the 4 day of

In the Comeing coming year Well I hope you will get your Health Better, you Will Please Excuse this My

By 1855 when Whitman wrote "I lean and loafe at my ease . . . . observing a spear of summer grass," he

reason I like to drive a stage-coach on Broadway, I feel that the strength of the horses passes into my

veins, my muscles, and after that I can give strength to my poetry."

Edition This little Treatise is extracted from a more extensive work, undertaken without consulting my

—In this research it will be my constant endeavor to ally that which the right perm its , with that which

—When a robber surprises me in a forest, I must surrender my purse to force,—but when I can regain it

—My first question returns. Chapter 4th.

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

names, sometimes Southerners, sometimes Western or other writers of only one or two pieces,) deserve in my

Jan. 2, 1876 My dear Mr.

"No one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance, or attempt at

"I am not literary, my books are not literature," he proclaimed to Horace Traubel (With Walt Whitman

"The whole drift of my books is to form a new race of fuller & athletic yet unknown characters, men &

But my debt of gratitude to you, through your writing, is so great that I could not refuse the opportunity

For you have been literally an inspiration in my life.

Hence I consider myself one of your sisters—albeit we may never meet on this planet, and this must be my

Under cover of this envelope I send you copies of my little magazine and hope you will do me the honor

Hoping I have not tired you with my letter and that you have not felt it an intrusion I am Very Sincerely

Law Offices JEROME BUCK, 206 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, October 16 188 8 My dear Sir, Please accept my lasting

I sought only thro' through Tom Harned a line from your hand to place in my copy of 'Leaves of Grass.

If you ever come my way I know a place hard by, where a bottle of the reddest Burgundy may be found that

I am my dear Mr Whitman Gratefully & faithfully yours Jerome Buck For Walt Whitman Esquire Camden NJ

first "cluster" of pieces in the definitive Osgood edition of Leaves of Grass (1881) he declared: "my

Walt Whitman later confided to Horace Traubel: "No one of my people—the people near to me—ever had any

found dear brother George, and found that he was alive and well, O you may imagine how trifling all my

One of the first things that met my eyes in camp, was a heap of feet, arms, legs, &c. under a tree in

"You don't know what it is, do you, my dear?" said he, adding, "We don't either."

I have been about sick with a cold on my lungs, and after my days work was done I did not feel like writing

I am going to give up my place the first of Ap r .

My health will not admit of it.

Often when my mind wanders back to the days that I spent in Armory Square, I can but cry.

My Hearts desire is that you may live a long and happy life and when you leave this Earth you may be

If you see Miss H[oward] please tell her I am sorry she did not call at my company the evening she was

My Dear Friend, I have been thinking about writing you at Brooklyn but as I did not know for certain

have thought of you very often since I saw you and would have gone to Brooklyn to see you again had my

have not been out much since I saw you as the weather would not admit and when the weather is stormy my

her as you know I have good reason to thank her for many a kind turn which she wrought for me during my

Please tell Mr Woods (if you see him) I am enjoying good health and I send my kind regards to him and

My Brothers James & Joseph are both well and in the Regt and wish me to return thanks for your kind remembrance

We finished our march to this place last Thursday afternoon and as soon as we halted my Regiment were

My heart is to full to write anything about him, for I cannot tell how well he was liked by the Soldiers

I am pained to say that many of my company secretly rejoiced when we received the news of the assasination

There are a large number of my comrades buried there and I should like to have the satisfaction of seeing

know where I am and also that I am in the enjoyment of middling good health I heard from you through my

Father some time ago and I have wanted to visit you but I am sorry to say my health will not admit of

my being out much this cold weather .

If you remember I was wounded through my lung and the ball is now near my right kidney and I am not as

I feel quite well to day I have just received a letter from my Brother in my Regt (15th NJ) he spoke

know where I am and also that I am in the enjoyment of middling good health I heard from you through my

Father some time ago and I have wanted to visit you but I am sorry to say my health will not admit of

my being out much this cold weather.

If you remember I was wounded through my lung and the ball is now near my right kidney and I am not as

I feel quite well to day I have just received a letter from my Brother in my Regt (15th nj) he spoke

A thousand thanks my dear Walt Whitman for all you have written, I shall always be your debtor.

Louis Nov. 10 th My Dear Uncle Walt, I have been thinking about you so much lately, that I am going to

I am still at my old quarters and will remain for this Winter, after that is as yet an unsettled problem

was an admirer of the former, I think even more of him, for the good taste in thinking so much of "my

Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Thursday, September 12, 1889 and Saturday, September 14, 1889: "My

I am afraid you will think my promise to write to you was not sincere but I have had very little time

to myself for letter writing but now that I have set about to redeem my word I hope it will be welcome

To begin at the beginning of my visit I spent nearly three weeks in New York with Mr. & Mrs.

my visit so far very much.

about and turn my face once more towards Burlington.

My Captain!": O Builder! My Builder!

My Captain!" several times (see Mad issues for April 1959, September 1967, and March 1983).

The song's narrator claims "I'd give my left lung to be hers for one night" and "she breaks my heart

'Leaves of Grass,' my ass!"

My Robot Friend (2004). Walt Whitman.

May 27, 75 My dear Walt Whitman Your kind letter is received and the sad news of your ill health makes

However my dear friend as you have lived from within and nor from without I am sure you will be able

request; but I cannot say to day or yet tomorrow for I am in the midst of work and am not altogether my

Till I see you my dear friend and fellow toiler goodbye Yours fitfully Joaquin Miller Joaquin Miller

March 8 .90 My dear dear .

I am today sending back proof sheets of my new book " To the Czar ." I hope to tear his bowels out.

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

HOTEL CHATHAM 67 & 69, RUE NEUVE ST AUGUSTIN PARIS My dear Walt Whitman.

this suits me, born democrat as I am, but I trust it will not at all disturb the future of the thee my

My address is the Langhorne Hotel, London. Drop me a line.

see notes Dec 2d 1888 Lapierre House Philad Philadelphia Friday My dear Poet.

the chief figure in a box with Childs Dayton and self on the eve of the 24th inst at the opening of my

My dear friend are you not well enough to come? Longfellow was ith with me at Boston .

Joaquin Miller '75 see notes June 20 1888 Highland Falls Orange Co County New York State Sept. 5, 75 My

Do keep up my dear fellow there is lots in the tomorrows for you and I want you to live to see the Great

My Dear Mr Whitman: I have many messages for you from your friends in Europe which I promised and so

to come to you, but now I shall not see you till I return; for I am tired of towns and tomorrow set my

My address for a time will be San Francisco and since I cannot see you I should be proud of a letter

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

benefactor, and have felt much like and New striking my tasks, visiting York to pay you my respects.

charity has no death— my wisdom diesnot,neither earlynor late, And my sweet love bequeathed here and

For my own part, I may confess that itshone upon me when lifewas when I was my broken, weak, sickly,

should be of my body.

my poems.

Jan: January 23 1877 My dear Sir, I hardly know through what a malign series of crooked events—absence

chiefly on my part in Italy & Switzerland, pressure of studious work, & miscarriage of letters—I should

however, begging you to send me copies of Leaves of Grass & Two Rivulets , & enclosing a Cheque on my

This is now framed & hangs in my bedroom.

I do not know whether you are likely to have heard that I make literature my daily work.

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

Am Hof, Davos Platz, Switzerland August 3 1890 My dear Master I received your card of July 20 in due

But it was then too late to alter the reference in my own essay on "Democratic Art" w. had been printed

I hope to have a second edition of my "Essays Speculative & Suggestive" (for only 750 copies were printed

For my own part, after mature deliberation, I hold that the present laws of France & Italy are right

It has not infrequently occurred to me among my English friends to hear your "Calamus" objected to, as

"A monument to outlast bronze," comes from the first line of Horace's Ode 3.30: My Monuument.

from want of love for you, not because I am not always in communion with you:— that I am, & so are all my

friends; there is a fine young fellow, son of Col Brackenbury, lying dead now in my neighbor's house

No: it is not that I do not love you, & do not dwell with you, that I have sent no token of my work.

You will see that I have stamped my two books of Sonnets with the heraldic coat borne by my ancestors

I will send you photos of my house, myself (done by Clifford), & 3 of my daughters.

Dear & honoured Friend & Master I thank you from my heart for the gift of your great book—that beautiful

But my heart has not the power to make my brain & hands tell you how much I thank you.

I cannot even attempt to tell yourself (upon this page of paper with this pen in my hand), what it is

If my health, riven to the bottom like a tree in me, twelve years ago,—& the cares of a family, complicated

reliance on you, & my hope that you will not disapprove of my conduct in the last resort.

Whitman I was away from England when your volumes reached me, & since my return (during the last six

This must account for my delay in writing to thank you for them & to express the great pleasure which

I intend to put into my envelope a letter to you with some verses from one of your great admirers in

It is my nephew— the second son of my sister who married Sir Edward Strachey, a Somersetshire baronet

Your "November Boughs" has been my companion during the last week.

I shall try to obtain it through my London bookseller.

Each time I have attempted to do so, I have quailed before my own inadequacy to grapple with the theme