Simply enter the word you wish to find and the search engine will search for every instance of the word in the journals. For example: Fight. All instances of the use of the word fight will show up on the results page.
Using an asterisk (*) will increase the odds of finding the results you are seeking. For example: Fight*. The search results will display every instance of fight, fights, fighting, etc. More than one wildcard may be used. For example: *ricar*. This search will return most references to the Aricara tribe, including Ricara, Ricares, Aricaris, Ricaries, Ricaree, Ricareis, and Ricarra. Using a question mark (?) instead of an asterisk (*) will allow you to search for a single character. For example, r?n will find all instances of ran and run, but will not find rain or ruin.
Searches are not case sensitive. For example: george will come up with the same results as George.
Searching for a specific phrase may help narrow down the results. Rather long phrases are no problem. For example: "This white pudding we all esteem".
Because of the creative spellings used by the journalists, it may be necessary to try your search multiple times. For example: P?ro*. This search brings up numerous variant spellings of the French word pirogue, "a large dugout canoe or open boat." Searching for P?*r*og?* will bring up other variant spellings. Searching for canoe or boat also may be helpful.
| Entering in only one field | Searches |
|---|---|
| Year, Month, & Day | Single day |
| Year & Month | Whole month |
| Year | Whole year |
| Month & Day | 1600-#-# to 2100-#-# |
| Month | 1600-#-1 to 2100-#-31 |
| Day | 1600-01-# to 2100-12-# |
The Nation this week (I have just seen it) does not print my reply, which may have come too late, and
a heavy cold on the chilly Sound boat in returning from Providence, which increased seriously after my
return, and developed into a bad attack of erysipelas, with which my head and face were well covered
He was so pleased with the epigraph, and so particularly pleased, as it seemed, with my enthusiastic
for Comstock, and shows that he is on the descending plane, down which I hope, and indeed heard, that my
He took my dare beautifully meek, I must say.
I suppose it would be best to have it done by my agency, and I suggest that I write F.
Give my love to your mother.
his January 16, 1872 letter to Rudolf Schmidt, Whitman wrote that Freiligrath "translates & commends my
Didn't my lower stomach shout to my upper stomach with loud halloos!
But that my illness makes me unfit for composition, I would like to review Donnelly's reviewers so far
My talk with him must have sunk in. Goodbye. Nelly sends you her love. So do I.
struck out half a dozen absurd lines at the end of the Properly speaking, I suppose I ought to retain my
A line has been dropped from my reply to Lanman.
want the to appear as it was in the pamphlet, a form which always pleased us both, and you will see by my
with a carefully transcribed printer's copy of the pamphlet, and it is evident that the galoot has had my
My Good Gray reads really well in the new version. I had no idea it was so good!!
If I get a revise, I will correct: if not, you please have an "s" put on to my "lightning"—it is more
I am getting better, and hope soon to be myself again—A bandaged hand prevents my writing, and everything
As soon as I get the free use of my hand, I will write to him, as you suggest.
Nothing will ever please me like knowing that my Bucke letter stands as it does with you.
"Well, then," rejoined the other, "I think your sister is the ugliest girl I ever saw in my life."
I wish you would see that the printer puts all names of books into italics , as my copy indicated.
One thing I must beg, that you will restore to its place in the text so much of Emerson's letter as my
It is absolutely necessary to my point on Cook that the letter should stand right up there and face him
entirely to my taste.
It is probable that my state is reaction from the severe work of the winter at Washington.
especially such as this one: I was sitting at breakfast yesterday morning, when the lines came into my
longing to send you a word, but you can't imagine how hard it is for me to rouse myself to write, in my
my wretched lameness prevents me from exerting myself as I want to.
Despite my illness and inanition, I am all agog for the result.
"O for the light of another sun, With my Bazra sword in my hand!"
Heyden's "The Last Words of Al-Hassan" contains the lines "O Allah, for the light of another sun, / With my
My dear Walt: I see in the papers, with agitation and alarm, the reports about your illness, which, however
But I should be in the way, considering my condition.
He has just done an astonishing thing—printed my private letter in his paper—the letter in which I asked
My dear Walt: I am enraged and ashamed with myself to have never sent you a word responsive to your letters
It was such rain as we have often seen here from my windows, only this time I saw it all alone.
The rascally Congress taxes me in September fifty dollars in a lump, besides my usual income tax, so
Ellen O'Connor related in a letter on November 24, 1863, that the Count had said to her recently: "My
My dear Walt: I am enraged and ashamed of myself to have never sent you a word responsive to your letters
It was such rain as we have often seen here from my windows, only this time I saw it all alone.
The rascally Congress taxes me in September fifty dollars in a lump, besides my normal income tax, so
Of the O'Connors, Thomas Jefferson Whitman wrote on June 13, 1863: "I am real glad, my dear Walt, that
Ellen O'Connor related in a letter on November 24, 1863, that the Count had said to her recently: "My
being quite crushed with the dead heat we have been having, and sick with obstinate bowel trouble and my
My belief in your getting better is invincible, for your stamina is indomitable.
Dear Walt: I have been so ill, and so burdened with the office charge, being scarcely able to hold my
of Bacon's Promus —a strong anti- Shakespere Shakespeare document—which hurt the book immensely, and my
Walt Whitman (Don't forget to return my Times article sometime.) William D.
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.
At present my brain is just mud—I have a heap of letters unanswered.
I am rejoiced at what you say of my contribution, but feel dreadfully at the prospect your letter opens
, of my paragraphing being changed.
I could bear with equanimity anything but that—especially the breaking up of my running account of the
Besides, you told me I was to have my way. I will write you again after I get the revise.
My dear Mr Whitman: I am very glad you are pleased with the pictures.
If you will kindly look over those you have kept you will find one with my name on & a few words from
My dear Mr Whitman: I have sent you by express today a new etching which I think you will like.
EDITORIAL•DEPARTMENT THE CENTURY•MAGAZINE UNION•SQUARE•NEW•YORK 25 July 1888 My dear Mr Whitman: I hope
My dear Mr.
My Dear Sir Your proof came to too late for us to make the corrections & I return it so that you can
criticism . . . after full retrospect of his works and life, the aforesaid 'odd-kind chiel' remains to my
Were I near you I should like to have the honor of paying my personal respects to you.
If you would write your name upon my 1855 edition, which I intend to present to a public library, I should
My Dear Walt.
This is my apology for this intrusion.
See in particular: "And I know that the hand of God is the elderhand of my own, / And I know that the
spirit of God is the eldest brother of my own" (1855, p. 15–16).; Transcribed from digital images of
As a further clue to my identity, I may tell you that I am editor of this paper and English correspondent
I have very little time tis true, yet I endeavor by writing rapidly to have time to keep up my correspondence
Have I not my hands full by the way you wish to know what Jones Hotel is.
I send my Photo and shall expect one of the Prince of Bohemia by return I will write in a few days.
I immediately appealed to my lady friends and patriots in Philadelphia, and they have sent me on a fine
I have never had better health in my life, perhaps I can explain it to you.
My regards to them and hope they are out of Campbell Hospital. What became of poor Dick?
asked several times where your books could be obtained & as I had sent the paper with Col H's letter to my
With kind regards of my family to you I am truly Yours &c Will W Wallace Will W.
Channing forthwith—& fulfil my promised visit to them also, before I return here—which will be about
My ambition points to this branch for myself I feel qualified for an inspector of Hospitals and I think
Give my kind regard to Amos [Herbert] and others of Campbell Hospital.
The Army of the Potomac "Oh my" what has to come of it I hope to hear of brilliant achievements in that
Whitman:— I have thought of you often since my call upon you the other day (and before, too, for that
matter), and felt, that although I have a copy of your works in my library, I would like one from you
420 Green Ave Brooklyn Apr. 10/91 My Dear Mr.
Whitman: Allow me to introduce to you my friend of many years' standing—Mr.
—I reached out my hand to feel the life-blood thrill beneath my fingers—I was faint with transport.
arms above my head to catch the stray sunbeams;—hugged it to my bosom transported with extatic emotion
;—yet never came before my vision sensual forms or thought found place in my imagination;—Was I passionless
—the warm, sympathetic tears that crept from beneath my eyelids and rolled lovingly down my bosom, soothing
my beating heart?
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."
It seem to me more than all the print I have read in my life."
The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections, They scorn the best I can do to relate
What is nearest and commonest and nearest and cheapest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances,
myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to receive my
trifling suffusion spread over his face; "if you like, I'll put the saddle on Black Nell—she's here at my
Glance O'er Travel'd Roads first appeared in Lippincott's Magazine (January 1887), under the title My
Reprinted in Democratic Vistas, and Other Papers (1888), My Book and I was also combined with How I Made
a Book, Philadelphia Press (11 July 1889) and A Backward Glance on My Own Road, Critic (5 January 1884
Who is he that would become my follower? Who would sign himself a candidate for my affections?
doned abandoned ; Therefore release me now, before troubling yourself any further—Let go your hand from my
it, Nor do those know me best who admire me, and vauntingly praise me, Nor will the candidates for my
love, (unless at most a very few,) prove victorious, Nor will my poems do good only—they will do just
Who is he that would become my follower? Who would sign himself a candidate for my affections?
don'd abandon'd ; Therefore release me now, before troubling yourself any further—Let go your hand from my
those know me best who admire me, and vaunt- ingly vauntingly praise me, Nor will the candidates for my
love, (unless at most a very few,) prove victorious, Nor will my poems do good only—they will do just
Who is he that would become my follower? Who would sign himself a candidate for my affections?
be abandon'd, Therefore release me now before troubling yourself any further, let go your hand from my
acquire it, Nor do those know me best who admire me and vauntingly praise me, Nor will the candidates for my
love (unless at most a very few) prove victorious, Nor will my poems do good only, they will do just
Who is he that would become my follower? Who would sign himself a candidate for my affections?
be abandon'd, Therefore release me now before troubling yourself any further, let go your hand from my
acquire it, Nor do those know me best who admire me and vauntingly praise me, Nor will the candidates for my
love (unless at most a very few) prove victorious, Nor will my poems do good only, they will do just
of Grass, named Lesson Poem in 1856 and finally, beginning with 1871's Passage to India, Who Learns My
“That very night,” says he, “the eyes of my inner man were opened, and I was able to look into heaven
I saw those who were dead here, but they were living there; I saw many persons of my acquaintance, some
Who Learns My Lessons Complete
NarayanaChandran"Who Learns My Lesson Complete?" (1855)"Who Learns My Lesson Complete?"
(1855)First published without a title in Leaves of Grass (1855), "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?"
"'I' and 'You' in 'Who Learns My Lesson Complete?': Some Aspects of Whitman's Poetic Evolution."
"Who Learns My Lesson Complete?" (1855)
Who Learns My Lesson Complete? WHO LEARNS MY LESSON COMPLETE? WHO learns my lesson complete?
as every one is im- mortal immortal ; I know it is wonderful, but my eyesight is equally wonderful, and
how I was conceived in my mother's womb is equally wonderful, And pass'd from a babe in the creeping
And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and
Who Learns My Lesson Complete? WHO LEARNS MY LESSON COMPLETE? WHO learns my lesson complete?
as every one is im- mortal immortal ; I know it is wonderful, but my eyesight is equally wonderful, and
how I was conceived in my mother's womb is equally wonderful, And pass'd from a babe in the creeping
And that my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and