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Rossetti I am drawn toward, and though my first impression of him was that he was a high flown literary
as Assistant Secretary Richardson has impressed me into his service here & proposes to retain me & my
I have seen enough of cities, & streets & art and pictures & museums to stand me all the rest of my days
, and am in a hurry to set my face westward.
fried eggs on a perfumed napkin, and the napkin on beautiful tissue paper & the whole on a china plate (my
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
…My brain is too sensitive.
Still at times my thoughts will go back & hover & nestle about the little home & the many familiar places
I graze in them with my eyes daily. Grass like this is never seen so far south on the Potomac.
summit, & could see the Catskills 50 miles to the North, & peaks that I recognized as visible from my
I have plenty of time on my hands now, but do not seem able to turn it to any account in a literary way
I can't get back my ruminating habit.
He work'd worked at my father's, and had done so for two years.
letter as follows: "I extract the following, verbatim, from a letter to me dated September 29, from my
It is better than I expected It is my philosophy always to accept the good & let the bad go to the dogs
mind for some clew as to who I was, but I hardly think he placed me, though I told him the names of my
Whittier was standing by him & hearing my name, said to Emerson, "oh!
—I am making trips to N.Y. now adays nowadays to be treated for my arm & hand.
He cauterizes my back & arm with a red hot piece of platinum.
volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My
It has been my plan to have you up here for the summer if I could pursuade persuade you to come, But
I have always had my opinion of him.
We are back home again & I am busy about my farm work.
My plough seems to find as much fat in the ribs of old mother Earth as ever it did & it looks just as
I could not have gone in any case, my wife was ill in bed & I had to go to Delaware Co County to examine
My own health is nothing to brag of, I thought the trouble was with my nervous system, but the doctor
finds it in my arterial; arteries hard & brittle, danger from apoplexy &c.
I have given up eating meat & have otherwise changed my habits—shall probably go out home in the spring
My own health is pretty good.
It has reduced my weight about 10 per cent. My belly has gone away as if I had been confined.
has had in the past, but I have no more doubt that it is one of the few immortal books than I have of my
Burroughs is referring to "My Book and I," which appeared in the January 1887 issue of the magazine.
There's something back of all that in my history, physiology, accounting for the hole I've got myself
the foot of the hill: it seems as though nothing would stay, however some things might or do delay, my
My life now seems very pale & poor compared with those days.
which I derive any satisfaction, Julian & that bit of land up there on the river bank where I indulge my
is developing into a very happy, intelligent boy, full of enthusiasms, full of curiosity, & is about my
I hope I can see my way to go to W again to see him. I shall not stay here in P. much longer.
Walt Whitman Respected Sir: I have just read your 'Memorandum at a Venture' and wish to express to you my
I am a student at the above institution and while studying my text books I have also studied the times
Robert Buchanan's new vol. of "Essays" placed in my hands.
Should our second attempt not be satisfactory, I will cheerfully avail my self of your offer. Mr.
Dear Sir:— After waiting in vain for some time for my Stationer here to obtain for me copy of your "Democratic
My very dear Friend, Finally I find time and quiet to write you—I beseech you be not angry at what may
on the other hand, to affirm that during this time I had thought it better, influenced, perhaps, by my
duties incidental to my position.
I have just come from my Mother, who, together with my Father, desires to be kindly remembered to you
hopes in the future to have had you & my little girl with me then.
John Frederick Schiller Gray was a captain in the Twentieth New York Infantry and later held the same
Wilkins, two students of Trinity College, Dublin, were the first to draw my attention to your poetical
lines of greeting in Munyon's Illustrated World, combining as they do the cradle and evening song of my
My brother writers have been very generous to me, and I heartily thank them for it.
Though a stranger to you, in your Book you have been my friend, and so I salute you.
own heroic measure (or a poor attempt to imitate it) by one of the members of the Melancholy Club, my
My name is known to your friend Mr.
I enclose prospectus of my Editions of Poe's works.
Only not mounted as I want it for mounting in my own fashion, safest way of sending is round a small
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
Misses Granger" You remember their father and grandfather—celebrated Politicians—Francis Granger even in my
Sept 22/90 Dear Walt Reading your letter over again—let me say—There was no solicitation whatever on my
"Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and was reprinted in Good-Bye My
(choice persons,) one third women (Proceeds to me $869.45)—I went over, was wheeled on the stage in my
"Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and was reprinted in Good-Bye My
and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain
Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his
(choice persons,) one third women (Proceeds to me $869.45)—I went over, was wheeled on the stage in my
I am glad you are pleased with my idea of Ingersoll lecturing. It will be a great event.
"Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and was reprinted in Good-Bye My
(choice persons,) one third women (Proceeds to me $869.45)—I went over, was wheeled on the stage in my
Dillingham Co: New York), he writes of Whitman: "Whitman gave a few readings under my management during
Just as he was about to recite 'My Captain,' a little girl, the granddaughter of Edmund Clarence Stedman
50 yrs years old— Viz: I have rec'd received a draft, endorsed it, deposited it, and forgot to give my
25 1882 Dear Walt: I wrote to Osgood and asked him how Leaves of Grass was selling and he rejoices my
I will do my best to send the Dr something while I am on my vacation.
Give my love to him, and commend me to his wife and little ones. Alma and Calder are doing well.
Dear Walt Whitman; I have received your books and MS. and send, with my hearty thanks, a New York check
My boy, ten years old, said to me this morning, "Have you got a book with a poem in it called 'O Captain
My Captain!' I want to learn it to speak in school."
its wings to you I am faithfully yours John Hay from John Hay, acknowledging & paying for MS of "Captain
, O Captain!"
Whitman papers sent July 25 I thank you heartily for my share in your Custer poem, which I have just
My address is now 506 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, and I would be very much obliged if you would spend
My dear Mr.
much stronger than when last I felt its generous touch, that token is alone enough to gladden this my
companys of our regmet is at millsprings an 5 here they will return today they 70 prisners yesterd give my
Captain Francis M.
you a few lines to let you now that I am well and have got safe to the regment and I have bin to see my
famley they are well wee are all m[o]unted an wee have got the pras of the finest regment in these pats My
Captain Francis M.
—most especially to the foreground of my own certain centre of identity: we will cross orbits.
They seemed charged with a new beauty and a new meaning addressed to my individual soul; and long did
—After a refreshing night's sleep I awoke to the singing of some sweet little songsters at my window.
I did not see him again for about forty years, when one day he came to my house and asked me,— " 'Do
I believe, too, that I once existed before I lived in my present form, and that I shall again live as
an individual after I have changed my present form."
Rome—where I received a most cordial welcome from him and his good wife, who is my wife's cousin.
Rome, like myself, is an Annan man—and much did I enjoy that talk about my dear old home, three thousand
I asked him to write his name in my book, and I found it to be John Y.
river, the ceaseless movement, and the brilliant and varied panorama of "Manhattan from the Bay." ¹ On my
"Yes," he said, "my right arm is my best, but I have a good deal of power in my left."
knee with my bag of crackers.
is the result of my sitting.
And now I'll write my name on it, and I want you to take it to Wallace with my love."
Davis to my wife.
Rider, and that in my opinion, no public object now exists which could be promoted by the proposed attempt
earliest convenience, to return my answers thereto in writing.
Before my appointment to my present office, I was a lawyer.
In my youth, before my first entering the public service, I had not adopted a permanent occupation. 5
I was educated by my parents, and by solitary study. 6.
The law clerk's hours are similar to my own.
subordinate, the chief of the secret service division—and other papers, together with a memorandum of my
Captain W. H. Dietz, Kingston, Tenn.
Y., sought to be acquired for Customs' purposes; and to state that, in my opinion, the proposed conveyance
Washington. 18 My Dear Sir, Your wishes admit of easy compliance, since Mr Browning has resolved to make
of pardon clerk and the opportunity will not be lost to add in the professional force of the office—my
Connecticut I am well and so is my Family.
My health is better than it has been in some time I have a little place here and are triing trying hard
to here hear from you very much This leaves me well thank God but I have been sick most all winter my
wife is sick at presant present But the Lord has been good to me in past and I know if I put my trust
just to let you know that I have not for goting forgotten you I am enjoying good health as well as my
week and I was glad to hear from you This leaves me all well hopeing hoping it may find you the same My
with a paper that I received from there some time ago you want me to write all the particulars about my
but very sorry to hear of your loss of health & bereavement this liaves leaves me and family all well my
through the winter and have not quite caught up yet I have got a little Buisness Business out side of my
Do you remember meeting a yong young Lady with me at the corner of Fulton and Court Sts once that is my
to hear that you have sick so long I have been sick with the Chills & Fever I have had wine to day my
20 of June so I am alone I am at the same employment yet I have plenty of work but the pay is small My
well before he went away he has been better cine they have been there they are near the Salt water my
wife is well the young Lady you met with me at the Cor Corner of Fulton and Cart Sts Streets that is my
Wednesday I went to Hartford to the reunion of the Vetrans Veterans and spent two days I met a good many of my