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Jenks, My dear Sir, I have rec'd your note of 30th Nov. with $3.

Please accept my special acknowledgments.

—Change my base a good deal—but this is my centre & p o address W.W. Walt Whitman to George W.

Feb: 8 '89 Am thinking a good deal ab't you to-day—have rec'd the card N[elly] sent & it has rous'd my

tho't's & sympathies greatly—Nothing new or special in my condition— Love to you & N— Walt Whitman Walt

Dave, I send a couple copies of my pho's, one for the children each—(If I knew their first names I w'd

have written on) W W Have just had my breakfast—hot buckwheat cakes with syrup & a cup of tea— Merry

328 Mickle Street Camden N J May 24 Dear J B— I am ab't in my usual general health, but lameness bad

—had a fall a month ago, & turned my ankle in—don't think I will be able to come up to West Park— W W

My dear Wife, You must excuse me for not having written to you before.

I have not been very well, & did not feel much like writing—but I feel considerably better now—my complaint

going on—let me know how it is with mother—I write this by means of a friend who is now sitting by my

side— —& I hope it will be God's will that we shall yet meet again—Well I send you all my love, & must

Called my attention to the package he had laid out and addressed to my old man friend.

Give them to him with my love." Package very liberal—magazines, etc.

s antagonism of some of my own notions which seem in line with his teachings and should, one would think

I want to see if our other corrections were alluded to—if my speech is now in right order."

Returned me my manuscript.

W. was inquisitive: "I felt the winter in my bones as I sat here.

And my fire feels it, too—and hurries up its burning." Monday, December 1, 1890

Longaker says about Walt just about what I wrote you and I do not understand [if] it is in reply to my

If you see my letter to W. of 31st Mar kicking about save it or return it to me—W. refers to it in card

My brother from Ottawa is to be here this week to stay—he has taken a house in London.So long!R. M.

We shook hands—he spoke of [my] article (Lippincott's).

I do my work by degrees." Remarked too how little capacitated he was for work.

While L. said: "Curiously, W. never answered one of my questions."

I am often asked when I take strangers there, why it is I cast my voice to such a pitch.

Hope to send my New England Magazine piece off tomorrow or next day—with pictures.

WHO learns my lesson complete?

as every one is immortal, I know it is wonderful—but my eye-sight is equally wonderful, and how I was

conceived in my moth- er's mother's womb is equally wonderful; And how I was not palpable once, but

And that my Soul embraces you this hour, and we af- fect affect each other without ever seeing each other

WHO learns my lesson complete? Boss, journeyman, apprentice? churchman and atheist?

as every one is immortal, I know it is wonderful—but my eye-sight is equally wonderful, and how I was

con- ceived conceived in my mother's womb is equally wonderful, And how I was not palpable once, but

years old in the Year 79 of America, and that I am here anyhow, are all equally wonderful, And that my

I have been absent on leave the past summer two months—went to New York—spent most of the time with my

Well, I keep about as stout as ever, and my face red & great beard just the same as when I used to see

you—I eat my rations every time, too—I am writing this in the office by a big window with a splendid

view of the Potomac & Arlington Heights—Well I find I must close—I send my love to you, darling boy,

. ; my personal washing amounts to just 4 pieces a week, with a pair of stocking and two or three handkerchiefs

She is too thoroughly selfish—There has been a proposition also for my absence—a few short months, run

down my place more than I would like to recover—So I shall rent the house—It is but a shelter since,

I was sick; she deliberately turned the key on me, and I had to stay at my room all night—comment is

get it Saturday—which may have made you some uneasy—but you need not be, as I still continue to hold my

proposed Centennial Exposition —I will send you pictures of the buildings soon— I am sitting here in my

& come and call on me, should he come to Philadelphia—Tell Wash Milburn, & Parker also, I send them my

at their bloody tricks till the U.S. (& perhaps England) steps in & kicks them out of Cuba—which in my

My dear Walt Whitman, I was very glad to have your postcard two or three days ago, & to find that you

My work—editing &c., made me come away at last sooner than I wished to.

through a quiet & picturesque cwm or valley,—so reaching this place, Carmarthen, where I stay with my

have been dipping more & more into old Welsh romance & poetry, of late; eking out with a dictionary my

Hda de El Rosario Jesus Maria Chihuahua Mex October 27 de/89 My dear Mr Whitman Your kind package of

a long time on road I was delighted I assure you to get them and they occupy the foremost place in my

of the old familiar faces—but I seem to be hoping against fate—as the manager here will not accept my

While I appreciate his valuation of my services I would prefer to go East—but have been treated too kindly

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

April 5 th . 28 Terrassen Ufer Dresden My dear Master I have to tell you that the plan of the translations

I have begun working at my translation with a German friend who is fully competent to help & has holidays

I shan't let my own name appear, lest the fact of my being a foreigner might prejudice people against

My dear Whitman, I have been voyaging amid the Hebrides,—strolling amid the Highlands,—loafing by the

Sea,—trying to extract from two or three weeks' vacation some vigour vigor and virtue for my work, which

(If you see him tell him that his accompanying letter got lost in my absence or it shd should have been

await us—you must (letting me know beforehand the Ship by which you sail from America) come straight to my

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

1865 Novem November 25 My dear Walt i have been looking for a letter all day but none came so it is saturday

Saturday night and i am alone for A wonder so i thought i would write you a few lines although my paper

in the nation it is a long piece with flourishes) the one in the union made me laughf laugh you got my

a woman to come every day and doo do up her work little jimmy comes as usual no more to night with my

I was rather amused (when I told some of my friends at home that I had seen you), at the ideas they seemed

to have of my object in calling on you.

It might have been my friend as well as myself who called but I had the opportunity.

I cannot very well leave my ship just now so I post it to you, he would have liked to have sent a more

couple of months afterwards I heard that she had never received any answer, & after some time I wrote to my

I cannot let this occasion pass without renewing my thanks, sending you again my greeting and love.

I have joined hands with you in it, tried to realize its ideals in my life; and to lead others to do

2316 Pine street St Louis Oct 11—noon Dear Sister I have been quite unwell, a bad spell with my head,

is passing over apparently, for the present — —Lou I think I would like to have you or George put up my

if the parcel is too big)—please do it soon as convenient—there is brown wrapping-paper & string in my

this—I have written to Hannah and Mary from here—I have just written to the Camden post office to send my

agents before I return—I shall probably return about the 12th of September— When I arrived here, I found my

I doubt whether the article will be accepted in the Galaxy —don't know who edits it—I send my love to

same to Charles Eldridge —I hope to be able to write to Nelly —I wish you when you write to say I send my

And now for a while, my dear friend, Farewell. Walt. Walt Whitman to William D.

is out of this world of sin & trouble—& I don't know as we have any cause to mourn for him— Mother, my

for somehow I feel as if I wanted to throw off everything like work or thought, for a while—& be with my

is pretty well over—they say the folks are coming home from the country, &c—I am glad I didn't take my

fine day—I am feeling well— Well, I have a long job of copying to do for Ashton, so I will wind up my

sassier this winter so far than for some years, am very comfortable here, plain & quiet though—eat my

any book particular you want, you tell me, & I will try to get it—Lots of sleighs out, good sleighing—my

had dinner, hot soup, cold roast beef, apple pie—all good—the sun is out real warm, & I shall go at my

should just like to have a ten mile ride behind his nag with the sleigh bells—Dear boy, I send you my

"You want to know in a word, then, the sum total of my life philosophy as I have tried to live it and

as I have tried to put it in my books.

It is only the closest student who would find it in my works.

The sum total of my view of life has always been to humbly accept and thank God for whatever inspiration

He then said: "It is my head—I have not been at all well today, though not giving up entirely.

This is my first outing—this, now, in the evening; though," and he said this rather triumphantly, "I

And when I explained, with my arguments with Bonsall and Harned against it, W. exclaimed: "Good!

Why—some of my best—in fact, my very best friends have been women."

Then: "I should like my friend Col. Cockerill, of the World, invited—Col. J.

And having it open in my hand, I read some passages.

Give him my love—yes, again and again."

I also had letters from Johnston and Wallace in my hands. He exclaimed, "Good! Good!"

I hardly see how I can and moreover think it not my place so to do.

"I know you, bless you for it: you do without my injunctions."

And when you go you will take my love!" And again, "Good for Baker! Good for the Colonel!"

"Exactly, that was always my idea.

I had no view but this: that a few of us—my father, mother, some very dear friends—should be put there

As to Moore's proposition that I should raise the money and my refusal, W. exclaimed, "Good! Good!

This is entirely my affair—no other's.

Appeared to have been reading it; spoke of it immediately upon my entrance after our shaking hands.

more than once, and will have doubtless other expenses—but I want to make it all good.We all keep well—My

you are both gone.No letter from Walt today.Good luck to youRM BuckeW. said, after I had expressed my

My dear Traubel:Your very kind and very welcome letter from London, Ontario, came duly to hand.

Whenever in New York, do me the favor to call to see me, not only at the office here, but at my cosy

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[The subject or text of my]

Deliriate, thus prelude what is generated, offering these, offering myself, Bathing myself, bathing my

songs in sex, Offspring of my loins.

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Sept 30 My dear Reid Yes—put my name to the piece, if you like it

received —I have some copies of John Burroughs's Notes on W W as Poet & Person , 2d 2nd edition under my

Of my own works, complete edition, the enclosed circular will give you the particulars.

328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey September 16 1884 My friends Can you use this in the C[ritic]?

& 20 copies of the number—& of course I should want to see proof—(reserving the right to include in my

Within a short time, my Cincinnati accent in English and my relatively (for an American) voluble Russian

But what he opened up for my eyes and my heart was the genuine Russia that lay behind, and sometimes

voice approach Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.

with your hand,/Don't be afraid of my body").

("Don't be afraid, it is not fearful/my body!").

"I want to go next door," he explained, "take my arm, Horace"—then going toilsomely on, step by step.

"No, not at all, not stronger in the legs: my strength does not come back to me."

W. responded: "It is a great joy—a great joy simply to get out of my cell."

This morning we went out even before my breakfast—took a trip around the block."

This in my invariable feeling.

I remember when I was a young man one of my placards for remembrance—for every-day contemplation—was

To postpone my own pleasure to others' convenience, My own convenience to others' comfort, My own comfort

to others' want, And my own want to others' extreme need.

I must have it in memoranda there in my note books"—pointing to the table.

"I was sure I had laid it carefully for you here—but, as usual, my best care would not save it."

Be satisfied with my general assurance.

My heart is with all you rebels—all of you, today, always, wherever: your flag is my flag.

"I did not enjoy it: it was too sudden a change from my passive life in Camden: it was too much the New

Some of my best friends, coming into the suite of parlors, seeing the crowds about, with me in the midst

Bucke sent me my foot note, and I have made the change (Page 100).

—asked me to show to my father. The engraving had impressed him.

And he explained, "The picture must be 12 or 15 years old—yes, taken after my sickness, on one of my

was much fatter 30 years ago, for instance, as shown in the portrait Johnston has, which shows me at my

I think Bucke looks on it as the best of all—or among the best, surely, though some of my friends complain

I agree that the scientific is the best—the only in true sense—but whether I have been fortunate in my

My people knew not of my coming—none but my brother's wife, to whom I confided my purpose, lest they

The love of life was strong in my soul.

I felt my arm, and said to myself, perhaps in the village of the pale-faces, there may be something that

In the night, when all were sleeping, I came out from our lodge, and bent my steps toward your town.

"Shame were it to me and my wife," said Thorne, "did we let one who has saved a life very dear to us,

Bucke had also written: "I have been thinking over the Riddle Song and have made up my mind that the

"Horace, I made the puzzle: it's not my business to solve it.

But I wanted something down there and thought I would start off on my own hook and get it.

There's something peculiar in my notion about this book.

Give the new mother my love: tell her I glorify her in my thanksgivings—that Walt Whitman glorifies her

My father had reinforced W. in his Goethean views. I had repeated these views from my notes.

Please don't mention my name in connection with what I write about Harlan.

Van Rensallaer.W. must have seen the big smile on my face. He looked extra pleased himself.

I turned the letter over and over in my hands.

He held my hand for an extra clasp. "Don't let our fight prejudice you against me," he said.

188uva.00260xxx.00264The sores on my shouldersBetween 1850 and 1855poetryhandwritten1 leaf8 x 15 cm;

on the back of this leaf (uva.00565) relate to the manuscript poem Pictures.; uva.00565 The sores on my

Queries to My Seventieth Year. QUERIES TO MY SEVENTIETH YEAR.

Ma Just a line to say that Fred Wild has written a brief message to you by this mail from my house, &

to send you my best love along with his.

My Dear Walt Whitman: I send you in due conveyance, something I wrote about Grant.

hope you will accept it, as a souvenir of our pleasant meeting with Arnold, and as an expression of my