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431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America Dec: 8 '81 First, thanks, heartfelt thanks, my friend
My friend seems to speak in a very recommendatory manner of D.
Jersey Dec: 10 '81 Dear Sirs Please send me here by express fifteen free copies Leaves of Grass for my
sheets are sent)— Then another thing: I have a few copies remaining (between one & two hundred sets) of my
mostly in England —which I should like to sell whenever applied to—price $10— You have no objections to my
good than harm to it—but is not of much importance any how—only (to me) as putting a few dollars in my
very anxious I should know of the bad illness of a particular friend of mine, & so wrote to Kirkwood—My
are famous everywhere; and, though later efforts have been less happy, the one exquisite song, "O, Captain
My Captain!" written on the death of Lincoln, would make him one of our honored poets forever.
future," "You do not understand me, you cannot understand me, but I can wait hundreds of years for my
— The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
"Not objecting to special revelations, considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand just
My Dearest Friend: Your welcome letter to hand.
Indeed all that sympathy and warm & true words of love & sorrow & highest admiration & esteem for my
Please give my love to your sister, and tell her that her good letter spoke the right words to me & that
Dozens of pages of his rhythmic prose are not worth "My Captain," which among all his compositions comes
If Whitman, after the same length of time, proves more fortunate, it will be because he wrote "My Captain
Camden N J Dec. 18 '81 My dear Ben: Ticknor Thank you for your (& O'Reilley's O'Reilly's ) suggestion
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America Dec: 18 '81 My dear Rudolf Schmidt Yours of Nov: 27
too mourn the death of Elster —though unknown I had formed a liking for him—I shall forward one of my
book will not be published for some months—perhaps a year—I send you, same mail with this, a copy of my
is Sunday, just before sunset—& we have had a fine day—indeed a fine mild winter so far—have been in my
new edition is David Bogue, St Martin's Place, Trafalgar Square— I have heard that my book is to be
Jersey U S America— Dec: 20 1881 Dear Sir Your letter asking definite endorsement to a translation of my
And as my dearest dream is for an internationality of poems and poets binding the lands of the earth
closer than all treaties or diplomacy—As the purpose beneath the rest in my book is such hearty comradeship
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Dec 21 '81 My dear W S K Yours rec'd received & glad to hear from
L of G—have just sent you a package by express of the late & other editions & Vols. of poems &c. as my
My satisfaction with your proposed German trans[lation] increases the more you unfold it, and I think
In the whole matter I freely trust to your intuitions and 'cuteness as to meanings, my dear friend—you
My letter to Mr Lee was also as a preface to the Russian translation.
much of the internationality element (sentiment) which I have intended as one of the leading fibres of my
Whitman's poems, though possessing individuality of their own: "Primary chief bard am I to Elphin, And my
I was with my Lord in the highest sphere, On the fall of Lucifer into the depth of hell; I have borne
been in Asia with Noah in the ark; I have seen the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra; I have been with my
whole universe; I shall be until the day of doom on the face of the earth; And it is not known whether my
Echoes of camps, with all th[gap] Trooping tumultuous, all[gap] bending me powerless[gap] Entering my
Asylum for the Insane, London, 31 st Dec. 18 81 My dear Walt Just a line to tell you that we have another
few pieces which are marked by the "piano-tune" quality that he derides—the true and tender lyric of "My
Captain" and the fine poem on "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors."
O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN! O Captain, my Captain!
O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain, my Captain, rise up and hear the bells.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse
Exult O shores, and ring O bells, But I with mournful tread Walk the deck my Captain lies, To analyze
For illustration, he gives utterance to phrases like this: "I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it
He himself says, "Nor will my poems do good only, they will do just as much harm, perhaps more."
Whitman writes about this in the passage Paumanok, and My Life on It as a Child and a Young Man, published
He explains his inspiration thus: Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, It
He explains the limit of his happiness: I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy, To
touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand .
Whenever he does this he writes lines that will live—notably, his "O Captain, my Captain," inspired by
Rolleston's son, Captain C. H.
Rolleston, informed Horst Frenz in 1950: "I do not think there can be any doubt that my Father's schoolmaster
January 15 th My dear dear Walt Your altogether good letter came to hand yesterdy yesterday morn: old
The chiming of church bells float musically up Haverstock Hill greeting my ears pleasantly as I sit here
nations no longer go to church & church bells cease chiming, but I needn't worry for it wont be in my
explained the good points wch which a violin should possess: as a musician he praises the conception of my
431 Stevens Street Camden Jan: 18 '82 My dear Mrs Childs Yours & Mr Childs', inviting me to dine & meet
an invalid—just suffering an extra bad spell & forbidden to go out nights this weather— Please give my
hearty salutation & American welcome to Mr Wilde— I much desire my friend to briefly report & give my
March 1, 1882, in which he quoted Swinburne's praise of Whitman: "I have by no manner of means relaxed my
my Captain!
O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies Fallen cold and dead. O Captain!
my Captain!
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse
But I with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, The most prejudiced will not deny that that
Wilde came to see me early this afternoon," said Walt, "and I took him up to my den, where we had a jolly
things I said was that I should call him 'Oscar;' 'I like that so much,' he answered, laying his hand on my
the æsthetes, I can only say that you are young and ardent, and the field is wide, and if you want my
My idea is that beauty is a result, not an abstraction."
His text is—and it is a stalwart text: "I stand in my place, with my own day, here!" II.
"I resist anything better than my own diversity," he says.
Clifford in his essay on "Cosmic Emotion:" "I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled far-
"My sun has his sun, and round him obediently wheels, He joins with his partners a group of superior
Hence from my shuddering sight to never more return that Show of blacken'd mutilated corpses!
great fool —don't you know every 'cute fellow secretly knows that about himself—I do)—God bless you my
25 1882 Dear Walt: I wrote to Osgood and asked him how Leaves of Grass was selling and he rejoices my
Camden Jan: 26 '82 My dear friend Yours just rec'd received & indeed welcomed —A wretchedly dull forenoon
431 Stevens Street Camden Jan: 26 '82— Evn'g Evening Thank you, my dear friend, for sending Washington
12 Well Road Jan January 29, '82 1882 My Dearest Friend: Your letter to Herby was a real talk with you
As I write this I am sitting to Herby for my portrait again—he has never satisfied himself yet: but this
that what with memory & photograph & the studies he made when with you, he will be able to put you & my
spell I must write to you—I don't have any such spells—& seems to me it is time you grew out of them—my
write you something cheerful—I have been in all day—quite a deep snow & the wind blowing—I here in my
Grass" will remain a real contribution to the thought of America, and some of the additional pieces, "My
Captain, O My Captain," "Song of the Banner at Daybreak," "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking," once
American country & the west — Nothing very new with me—I am well as usual for me—As I write I am up in my
moderate snow & ice on the ground, but sun shining bright—quite a good deal of sleighing— —I am busy with my
writing in moderation—write four or five hours every day—My new book is doing reasonably well (better
pages 166 to 168) after an interval I am satisfied with it, and am willing to let those sections of my
This draft letter is endorsed: "Letter sent Dr Bucke—with his return'd MS | My letter to Dr Bucke | Feb
Camden New Jersey Feb: 9 '82 My dear Madam — Yours of 9th rec'd received —I should be pleased to send
you the book—the price is $2—My Photo & auto[graph] are sold by the Camden Children's Home , Haddon
'82 29 Lange Strasse Dresden Tuesday Feb 14 My dear Whitman So you have had a visit from the Aesthete
I enclose herewith a page of my translation of the Leaves of Grass—you needn't save it as I don't want
Well, if I was to unburden all my mind on this weary subject I should go on till—till things got better
My wife knows them well too.
York has given very high praise to my Encheiridion.
1267 Broadway, New York My Dear Dear Walt— Swinburne has just written to me to say as follows.
As sincerely can I say, what I shall be freshly obliged to you if you will assure him of in my name,
that I have by no manner of means relaxed my admiration of his noblest works—such parts, above all, of
New Jersey March 7 '82 Dear Madam Returning here last evening I have mailed to you the two Volumes of my
write to you lately—or rather I have written so many letters, business affairs mostly, connected with my
Camden N J March 19 '82 Dear Sirs I have been expecting response to my letter sent you some twelve days
I re-affirm my suggestions and disposition of March 8 — Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to James R.
puto translates from Latin to "I am a human being: I regard nothing of human concern as foreign to my
puto translates from Latin to "I am a human being: I regard nothing of human concern as foreign to my
seen them, they are quite creditable) has gathered a variety of biographical information—criticises my
a volume ( It at least will not be liable to any District Att'y Attorney episodes—) comprising all my
be three Volumes gyrating together, the L of G—the S D & T—and Dr Bucke's book— Upon the whole, & as my
English stock & birth, but grown up in Canada and the California regions of America, & combining in my
Walt Whitman My last three letters to you have been One of March 8 (or 7) " " 19 & the present one find
431 Stevens street Camden New Jersey March 21 '82 My friends I believe you have in MS one or two clusters
of my Notes — yours —they are paid for—I think I would like to look over them & touch them up to date
To give you a definitive idea of what I meant in my notes of March 8 and March 19—& of course stick to—I
The whole thing would not involve an expense of more than from 5 to $10— My proposition is that we at
U S A Down here again spending a few days—nothing very different—pretty much the same story of all my
Philadelphia to-day for store goods—Do you know of David Bogue, bookseller, Trafalgar Sq: Square who publishes my
Camden New Jersey April 2 '82 My dear Dana Yes I am willing you should make extracts—Enclosed (suggestions
211 Tremont St Boston No I cannot consent to leave out the two pieces I am only willing to carry out my
But a few moments ago in an unknown country paper a paragraph with a "fling" at your poetry attracted my
undefined purpose of assuring you of the love and reverence in which you are held by thousands, I took up my
next N A North American Review (June number) will have a piece A Memorandum at a Venture signed by my
name in which I ventilate my theory of sexual matters treatment & allusion in Children of Adam —I shall
reprinting Burroughs's letter of May 1, Traubel interpolated an explanation of the loan: "This was money in my