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impressions (proofs) & send me—direct to me, care of J H Johnston Jeweler, 150 Bowery —that will be my
Mott avenue & 149th Street Station L New York City Aug: August 8 '81 1881 My dear Baxter Yours rec'd
Osgood & Co: are going to publish a complete & new volume of my poems, & I am coming on to see to & oversee
of last Critic here—also send the little slips of the poem here, unless already sent —I like to see my
"My 'Leaves of Grass,'" said the old gentleman, "I will publish as I wrote it, minor revisions excepted
Dear Hank I am here seeing to the setting up & stereotyping of my book in a big printing office, (Rand
I sent—they will give you some acc't account of two or three little happenings in my jaunt—I was down
on Long Island at the spot where I was born & where I had spent my summers in youth from time to time—went
fine very old trees)—I am now writing this in Osgood's place in Boston (they are the publishers of my
—I wish you to give my love to your father & mother—Debbie & Jo Ed, Mont, & Van—Ruth & little George—
Rand & Avery's 117 Franklin st: street Please send my mail, by bearer, & please send the same down to
It will be the whole expression of the design which I had in my mind When I Began to Write.
Now, that is the way it has been with my book. It has been twenty-five years building.
My theory in making the book is to give A Recognition of All Elements compacted in one— e pluribus unum
"My poetry," continued Mr.
Many of my friends have no patience with my opinion on this matter.
guests when full, mostly families, very nice—capital table, (most too good for me, tempts me too much)— My
I suppose you get the papers I send—the Boston Globe of four or five days ago —& others—I get my letters
well here, sent on from Camden—Lou I send a small package directed to you by mail, please put it up on my
Clark very kind & thoughtful—appears as though I was going to have things all my own way—I have a table
It will be the whole expression of the design which I had in my mind When I Began to Write.
Now, that is the way it has been with my book. It has been twenty-five years building.
"My poetry," continued Mr.
But I have accepted it all as a part of my work.
Many of my friends have no patience with my opinion on this matter.
Rand & Avery's Monday noon Sept: September 5 '81 My dear friend Although it is abominable for me to back
8 Bullfinch Place Wednesday Evening September 7th My dear Mr.
Sept: 9 '81 Dear Harry I keep about the same in health—am & have been very busy with the printing of my
here—have a good room & boarding house, the landlady is first rate & kind [to] me, (as often happens I find my
heart—you know the verse of the old song "A light heart & thin pair of breeches Goes through the world my
Howe, Captain Milton Haxtun, or Ed Dallin.
fullest satisfaction (if not already—which I thought the case—distinctly, amply, legally secured by my
correspondence between us ante )—But the copyright of Leaves of Grass must remain absolutely & solely in my
I want to say over again that while I reserve to the fullest degree all my own rights & the means to
maintain them, you are to be, & I hereby make & confirm you, the sole issuers and publishers of my completed
strenuously & loyally in the enterprise—& to add that I do not fix any term or limit of years, because it is my
About the plate my impression still is that in the hands of a good expert steel plate printer it will
My notion is against getting up any further portrait (this steel plate will have to permanently continue
carefully done , & with good ink)—& the binding, color, style, (strong, plain, unexpensive inexpensive , is my
I have been trying, since my return to Germany, to find out that essay you allude to in the N.A.
My 'Encheiridion' ought to be out very soon as I have sent in the last proof sheets.
dinner—two hours—every thing just right every way—a dozen people there, (the family & relatives)—for my
done & will be in the market in a month or so—all about it has proceeded satisfactorily—& I have had my
Boston, Sept: September 24 1881 Dear Alma Every thing is going on & has gone on satisfactorily—My book
plate-casting, & if things turn out wrong any way I shall have only myself to blame, for I have had my
My dear Mr Mr.
Spofford If convenient won't you inform me soon as possible by letter here, of the dates of my copyrights
O'Grady | sent photos to him Dec 24 '81 11 Lr Lower Fitzwilliam St Dublin October 5, 1881 Dear Sir, My
My impressions regarding this literature I have published in various works.
poems & tales into a complete whole & so the student can never be exactly certain what is & what is not my
In the revolt of Islam he has a fine Panegyric on the future of America Fr For my own part I put him
I do not meet in you the expression of every changing ideal punctuating even the remotest parts of my
who have set up & electrotyped a new, complete & markedly fuller edition (with several new pieces) of my
at once, with the request that you will immediately have the book entered for copyright & secured in my
I am under many obligations in the past to my friend your Josiah Child, & should like to have this matter
BOSTON,__________188 Monday noon Oct: October 10 '81 My dear friend Yours rec'd received , & thanks—I
still linger along here—the printing of my book is finished—but one or two little things I want to see
word a day beforehand—I am well as usual—Have had a very pleasant time here, & the book printed &c. to my
Whitman recited "John Anderson, my Jo, John."
havn't haven't heard from you all now in a fortnight— I came on yesterday from Boston —As I told you in my
last every thing went on there satisfactory —& my treatment from Osgood has been of the best—the prospect
contains only some MSS and stuff—also there may come a roll of printed matter for me, to be put up in my
last July & August and then for the last two months have been in Boston, seeing to the printing of my
complete poems "Leaves of Grass" in one volume—which is all done to my satisfaction, & the book will
did have some jolly times I tell you— The Saturday evening before I came away I gave a reception to my
all right—I should be real glad to see them & Deb too—When Harry comes home Sunday tell him I sent my
—Well it is growing twilight & I must stop— Walt Whitman my address here for ten days will be Mott av
I wish to see my benefactor, and have felt much like striking my tasks and visiting New York to pay you
my respects.
The air tastes good to my palate.
Was't charged against my chants they had forgotten art?
Another song on the death of Lincoln, "Oh Captain! My Captain!"
Ontario, Canada —and one to John Burroughs, Esopus-on-Hudson, New York — I write in N Y, but the above is my
communed to- gether together Mine too such wild arrays, for reasons of their own; Was't charged against my
Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance
That sport'st amid the lightning flash and thunder cloud, In them, in thy experiences, had'st thou my
It still maintains: I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable; I sound my barbaric yawp over
I spent considerable time in New York and a number of weeks on Long Island, my native place.
So many of my good friends are here that I must call it my home.
There are men and women—not here though—who bear my intuition and understand by their hearts.
in his "den" surrounded by a litter of books and papers: "When Osgood wrote me, offering to publish my
I must overlook the work myself and you must humor me in letting me have things my way.'
things & times—this beautiful day among the rest—(now toward sundown, & I am writing this alone up in my
Stevens street Camden New Jersey U S America Dear Sir I send you by same mail with this the circular of my
November 9, 1881 I send you my new book (it is due you, you know) same mail with this. . .
Me, master, years a hundred since from my parents sundered.
At the marriage of a German prince with an English princess, when the bridegroom said, "With all my worldly
Me, master, years a hundred since from my parents sundered.
Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America Nov. 10 '81 I send you same mail with this the circular of my
treated me kindly, and the young people made a great deal of me, but, perhaps, that was on account of my
printing-house, and superintended everything, even the type in which the book was printed, and they made my
"I spent considerable time in New York," he adds, "and a number of weeks on Long Island, my native place
S o many of my good friends are here that I must call it my home."
There is a lawless saying, fit only for the wise, but full of meaning for poets and great captains,—
I loafe and invite my soul. I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of sum- mer summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from
stuck up, and am in my place.
Now comes a passage remarkable for its nobility: "With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums
I beat and pound for the dead, I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.
describes himself well enough in the lines, I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable — , I sound my
He says (p. 31): Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
His tribute to Abraham Lincoln (p. 262), beginning "O Captain! my Captain!"
Bless the Lord,O my soul!
my special word to thee. Who can be a companion of thy course!
lengthening shadows, prepare my starry nights.
my Captain! our fearful trip is done.
O,the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air.
My special word to thee. Hear me illustrious!
woodedge, thy touching-distant beams enough, or man matured, or young or old, as now to thee I launch my
lengthening shadows, prepare my starry nights.
make the only growth by which I can be appreciated, I reject none, accept all, then reporduce all in my
For the great Idea, That, O my brethren, that is the mission of poets.
Wilkins, two students of Trinity College, Dublin, were the first to draw my attention to your poetical
Nov. 28 [1881] 29 Lange Strasse Dresden My dear Whitman Yesterday I received all your dispatches—viz,
Still I am very glad that I have it complete in my old .
This volume, with its new poems, etc. offered a field of "pleasant exploration" and renewed my sense
I have ordered my book to be sent to the American papers you mentioned.
You should have recd. received a copy of my Encheiridion by this. Thomas W. H.
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America Nov: 28 '81 My dear friend, Have time & its influences
My brother & sister are well. The Staffords the same.
I am writing this in the sunshine up in my old 3d story room—Best best love to you & to Herby & Grace
The intensity of her grief is visible in the lines of an undated and unsigned letter: "My dear Children
be resigned—but remorse—that I should have left her; that is like an envenomed wound poisoning all my
O the love for her shut up in my heart" (Charles E.
apologized for not remembering his birthday: "it was past & I had not written one word—not just put my
—And then I never in all my life had money that done me so much good. I have some of it yet.
in the Feinberg Collection, Whitman wrote in 1886 or 1888: "Have had this little Vol. at hand or in my
I, the Titan, the hard-mouthed mechanic, spending my life in the hurling of words.
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Dec: 3, '81 Dear Sir I send you a fair proof of my Emerson article
London Dec 6 th —81 To my Dear Friend M r Whitman, I sit now in my hall on duty, to write you these few
I gus guess I will bring my letter to a close, By sending the Love of all the asylum Employies Employees