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My dear Sir: I have received two communications from you, having date, respectively, January 28th, ult

the 4th inst. that you have some purpose of publishing these letters—and you intimate a desire for my

either officially or personally, I cannot consent to be made a party, and should decline, if I had my

He promised to write it and send the book to my house by and by by Ed.

I had the Swinburne book under my arm. He asked—"What have you there?"

Again said: "If you are going to Germantown give my affection and best love to Clifford"—adding as he

W. was not at home on my coming, but in ten minutes or so was wheeled up by Ed.

I gave him my father's translation of the German article.

I stayed but briefly—long enough to know his condition, to deliver my own messages and get his.

Laughed: "As the writer says, 'I wrap my mantle about me,' and sit down to pleasant thought!"

He was very affectionate—on my leaving took my hand—"Good-bye—bless you, boy!"

.— I celebrate myself to celebrate you; every man and woman alive; I transpose my my spirit I pass as

that hear me; I am loosen the voice tongue that was tied in you them In me It begins to talk out of my

My Soul Spirit was curious and sped back to the beginning, sped back returned to the times when the earth

eternally; And devise themselves to this spot place These States and this hour, Again But yet still my

My Spirit sped back to

duplicate printed copies of a poem I have written, "Passage to India," in which I endeavor to celebrate in my

price, time, selection of magazine, and in fact all the points of that sort, I leave absolutely to you— My

Nothing new or very different with my affairs. I remain in good health & spirits.

Bliss , rectory Episcopal church—he expressed great sympathy for me; in my straitend circumstances, and

placed a 5 dollar bill, in my hand, as he has done once before, this winter, which got me 1/2 ton of

I would much rather paint, could I sell my pictures.

I am very much the same—My being disabled & want of Exercise for 16 months, (and many other wants too

what the doctor calls gastric catarrh, very obstinate, causing me really more suffering & pain than my

I have bad spells enough, thank God I also have middling good ones—& as I write this have just had my

London Aug 5. 87 My dear Friend Walt Whitman I write you from the Reading Room of the British Museum.

I have just laid it down and taken up my pen to tell you of the fresh and vigorous fruit your rattling

My address is No 48 Rue d'Orsel Paris. Very affectionately yours Percy Ives.

the P.M. don't restitute I must be allowed to pay it—not because it is important, but because it is my

affair—& business — I send you an extra copy of my little War book, same mail with this—Shall write

you soon definitely about coming on—Love to you, my friend, & to Mrs.

: Art essay & sent it to the Critic —so if they print it you will see, but for a good while now all my

back rejected (the Century, Harpers, the Eng: Nineteenth Century, the Cosmopolitan &c: &c: all send my

evn'g—is invaluable to me—I enclose Dr Bucke's last, just rec'd —also other things—I am sitting here in my

Whitman's "Rejoinder" was also reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (Prose Works 1892, Volume 2: Collect and

published in the magazine: "Twilight" (December 1887), "Old Age's Lamben Peaks" (September 1888), "My

you the Graphic, with piece by me, about the Capitol, which I suppose you rec'd—also same paper with my

& criticism by "Matador" —I have rec'd a letter lately from Eldridge—nothing new at Washington, in my

—Love to both of you—I am writing this up in my room—it is growing dark—I am going out to tea, to an

I was speaking to you in regard. to my appointment for Sailmaker in U.S. Navy.

looking after it for me. and see what you can do towards getting it for me For it has been the height of my

Will put me out of misery. and my mind content any further information Any of the clerks in the Sec of

If anything happens to prevent my leaving on Monday, I will let you know of my detention.

Bucke writes me that you like my Introductory. Faithfully W. D. O'Connor. Walt Whitman. William D.

My dear friend I am too sorry that you are not well enough to see me, but I trust I may be able to do

old shoe with me, with which I wanted to inspire you to write me some verses — It was once worn by my

much.— May our Heavenly Father spare both you & I for sometime yet Truly your friend Lavinia F Whitman My

the net is slowly winding & tightening round me)—was out driving yesterday afternoon & to supper at my

—the oysters come—I had 3 or 4 for my breakfast—I take no other meal till ab't 5—Lady Mount Temple has

Walt Whitman I see I have taken a sheet of paper with a rambling first draught of one of my Herald yawps

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

Dear Walt— Just a line as you have been much in my thoughts lately.

Sharpe, my old harper friend that I told you of, died a few days ago—"very quiet & gentle" says his son

The Money Order is sent in my name. Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 13 January [1889]

Department of Justice Washington sent Sept. 17, 18 71 I send herewith the copy of my American Institute

I think an ordinary 12 mo would be best, and send you a sample, my idea of size of page, and sort of

My percentage &c. I leave to you to fix—I should expect two or three dozen copies.

see notes July 5 1888 Maybury Working Station Surrey England Nov 3 1871 My dear sir, I send by this mail

the second part of my study of your works.

And may I again repeat the hope I expressed to you in a former note (when I sent you my own vol. of poems

Camden NJ 4th 7th 85. 12 midnight Walt Whitman My Dear Walt Your letter did not reach me: till tonight

God knows & Walt knows that I am as slow as the wrath of God—to take offense especially at what my friends

(2) To start right again I think you had better send me my MSS—and let me do as I d—m please with it

since that ill spell—Nothing special or new with me—bitter cold just now here, but sun shining to day—My

visitors—Morse still away west—the Smiths going to London early in summer—Mrs D[avis] has just been in to see to my

coal & to say we are to have apple pudding for dinner—it is chilly here as I finish this—my little bird

With me & my affairs no great ripple—I am worldlily comfortable & in good physical condition as usual

of late—I went on to New York—was convoyed by my dear old Quaker friend R Pearsall Smith —had a success

at the lecture 14th (netted $600 for my self—Andrew Carnegie gave $350 for his box)—had a stunning reception

Camden New Jersey March 27 p m My dear friend Yours of yesterday rec'd received —Also the previous ones

me—I expect to come on to N Y to lecture (Death of Abraham Lincoln) the middle of April—Do you know of my

he is sort of engineering it—in conjunction [with] John Burroughs, (now in Washington)— My brother &

We have a letter from my brother George, down to 18th inst. he was all safe.

My mother & folks are all well— I rece'd the letter enveloped to me 25th—I sent a line to Wm O'Connor

Ashton with friendship—also to Arnold Johnson with sincere thanks & tell him I am getting well—& give my

.— But I have not yet received my copy of the Dictionary.—I have called several times at Mr.

—If convenient, upon the receipt of this, I wish you would envelope a Dictionary, and put on it my address

Newman for a Dictionary— which order I will give him, when my copy arrives.— Walter Whitman Publisher

Toronto Thursday last (9 th inst.) intending to stay a week and do a lot of things—but, rather curiously, my

a couple of weeks became much inflamed the same night I went down so that I had to make the best of my

the next day—I have suffered a good deal of pain and loss of sleep with it and am still confined to my

My Dear Sir It is with the greatest pleasure that I seat myself to give you a few lines to let you know

Uncle I have got very near well. the wound in my chest has got nearly well.

Also my arm is geting along nicely but their is some slight pain yet but none to stop me from writing

—McKay, my Phila: publisher, has just been over—paid me $77 for royalties for the last eight months—I

paid the Camden taxes on my shanty to-day $26 —The photos come from Cox all right, & I sign & return

—When you come again, don't forget to bring my Stedman book American Poets —Love to Alma and Al and all

Johnston on September 1, 1887, "He advertises . . . to sell my photo, with autograph.

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey May 8 '78 My dear Linton I returned last evening from a jaunt to

half-&-half)—after a bad spell during March & most of April—thought I was going to have a relapse to my

—Since my late sick spell, it is not so likely the programme will be carried out —but I want to go about

I go now & get a wrap up: I have not given up, & never shall the pub. of my apotheosis of W.W.

It just meets my ideal. A book is doubled in value by pocket-form. My cousin has gone.

Jany 9. 1891 My dear Walt Wish you a Happy New Year, and take it in your new tomes and the "Old Gray

By the way in my file of the Sat.

I am living permanently here (that is to say in the old Phalanx near Redbank) and my brother is with

I hope you will excuse me for not writing sooner I have been laid up with a pain in my back ever since

I am agoing going to have it framed if nothing happens I want that Picture to remain in my family as

hopeing hoping this may find you improving in health .. also with much love & many thanks from myself & my

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey U S America Sept: 11 '87 My dear Rhys I suppose you got the copy

Finally I give you the same privilege over the putting together of this, as my other volumes.

I shall expect £10:10s (same as my other vols) and also 10 copies of the "Vistas" bound in roan .

My Arnold piece did not appear in Tuesday's Herald.

I am myself of late years more inclined to sit still exploiting and expounding my views than was the

Walt Whitman, Esq.Dear Sir—I have tried in vain to obtain a good portrait of my father for you and am

traps—stored in garret or cellar of my new house where all things are at sixes and sevens.The one as

I am always uneasy about the inquirers when they come buzzing about: they get on my skin and irritate

Then: "I have been out—startled—dazed: but now am better: have had my meal—strawberries, chiefly, which

Why, Horace, you have no idea of the exuberance of the man: he talks of buying all my books, of buying

W. said: "I am quite willing to sell him my books: that is what they are here for."

On my way to town this morning, I had met Bucke at the ferry, waiting for the Cape May train.

Gave me Contemporary Club cards for my sister Agnes.

Again—inquiring what papers I had in my hand, he looked at Harper's Weekly and Young People—remarking

Though how a fellow can be a Leaves-of-Grass-man and fall into such a ditch defeats all my explanations

"I have thought, how much can be done with stained glass—how much has been done: have thought of my own

I want to come—it is part of my duty yet while living, if I can.

My hope has been diminishing little by little, but not yet to a total negative."

Merry over my face, lost almost in the trees on the hill.

Asked me—pointing to table, "Did you see my lilies? Exquisite, eh?

—and with my love." Meanwhile taking them out himself."

What an idea, that about my reciting, reading, declaring my own poems!

I enjoy criticisms of my work even if I do not feel to justify them.

Stopped in on my way to Unitarian Church, where Law was to lecture on Alexander Wilson.

Wrote my name on its face. "This may have an especial value—on several accounts.

English rescuers in the dark years of my Camden sojourn.

No one, not my best friends—know what it means to me.

"I think I can lay my hand on it. Why, do you want it?

My Dear Old Friend, I now take up the thread of my narrative about Dr Bucke & his doings amongst us at

the point where I left off in my last letter Sunday morning (July 19th) he stayed indoors resting, reading

because they contained what was on the whole good news of you After breakfast the Dr, J.W.W. & I drove in my

Forgive my seeming levity. Upon such a grave subject.

Please convey my warmest regards to all & accept the heart love of yours affectionately J.

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

My Dearest Friend: Welcome was your postcard announcing recovered health & return to Camden!

Strange episode in my life!

But meanwhile, dear Friend, my work lies here: innumerable are the ties that bind us.

Please give my love to your brothers & sister. Were Jessie & Hattie at home in St.

Please give my love to John Burroughs when you write or see him.

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

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

If one's patient has an ache or pain, the nurse whistles for the student (my whistle is 2).

One of my patients has empyema following pleurisy.

Several of my patients (I have all the very sick just now) require very careful watching.

Please give my love to Mrs. Whitman & remember me to Colonel Whitman.

If it were not for records accumulating mountain high I should have time to write to my friends.

54 Manchester Road Bolton Lancashire England Dec r 27 th 1890 Many thanks to you, my dear old friend,

Another treat in store for us is a Children's Party which my wife & I intend giving in our house, when

It will interest you to know that I have received a brief letter of acknowledgment of my "Notes" & of

I also send you copies of some verses I sent to some of my friends & a copy of this week's Annandale

Observer containing a notice of my "Notes."

—That this earthly habitation, is a place of torment to my miserable self, is made painfully evident

—you do not know, my friend, nor can you conceive, the horrid dulness of this place.

—And as avocations of this nature never met my fancy in any great degree, you may easily imagine what

O, ye gods, press me not too far—pour not my cup too full—or I know what I shall do.

—Dire and dreadful thoughts have lately been floating through my brain.

Along with the parcel of papers which you sent me after getting my baby's letter I got the picture and

I have yet on hand two big bales of my cotton crop intended for spending money for the —sold other of

my crop (three more big ) on one credit to get interest.

might think, except that I have been almost insane about yours because you have so well expressed " my

(Please don't other hunter come down my dilapidated dwelling ) John Newton Johnson Ala Alabama for the

My dear Walt i received your letter and money and the chigacago Chicago news all safe and sound on tuesday

pit to see to the cementing and he gets all mud sometimes and he favor himself much) well walter dear my

i hadent hadn't much to write about this time so i wouldent wouldn't take a whole sheet i get over my

letters for 10 years) he said to day today their is lots of theiving thieving somewhere he said if my

Louis had sent a money order he would have got it for me with my signing my name i am very sorry i dident

Donald BarlowStauffer"Good-Bye my Fancy" (Second Annex) (1891)"Good-Bye my Fancy" (Second Annex) (1891

)This group of poems originally appeared in the book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), Whitman's last miscellany

the New York theater, etc.A group of thirty-one poems from the book was later printed as "Good-Bye my

death he had frequently expressed in his younger years.There are two poems with the title "Good-Bye my

"Good-Bye my Fancy" (Second Annex) (1891)

My Dear Friend: I feel so drawn to send you a Christmas greeting.

Did you receive an invitation to the wedding of my daughter, Blanche, on the 14th of June last?

So often I think of the days of my youth, amid the calm content of Quaker society, so beautiful.

Tears came into my children's eyes. After meeting I asked them why?

I am my friend with kindest regards, Yours truly, Elisa S. Leggett.

Give my love to Dr. B.

My Dear W Whitman, Yr letter & papers both rec'd with thanks.

My article is scientific , I even reverently analyze Shakespeare's technique & prove that he inclined

I had been reserving this piece of work until I moved into my new house.

I sent my article on poetry to the Century. They ordered an article on E.E. Hale, wh.