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I exclude you, Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you, and the leaves to rustle for you, do my

My girl, I appoint with you an appointment—and I charge you that you make preparation to be worthy to

do I exclude you, Not till the waters refuse to glisten for you and the leaves to rustle for you, do my

My girl I appoint with you an appointment, and I charge you that you make preparation to be worthy to

My dear friend, I find my mother in excellent spirits & fair health & strength, considering her age,

Show John this letter—I send him my love—William, I have not yet rec'd any letters—when any come, send

My sister Mat & her children are here. Farewell.

vulgarity and meanness, and described an encounter with her which he came out of with "the back of my

"Henry Clapp," Walt Whitman said to Horace Traubel, "stepped out from the crowd of hooters—was my friend

So I know beforehand that my pamphlet comes to you at a disadvantage" (Charles E.

—seeing the rolls in my hand.

On my return I took the chair at the foot of the sofa. There was no light in the room.

"She calls attention to the money I am making on my poems—says it is rare.

Tom, do you want to borrow some of my poetry money?

I had twelve hundred and fifty of my own—George W.

Now that my mind has got back to good weather again I feel more or less satisfied.

I have seen in the later years of my life exemplifications of devilishness, venom, in the human critter

which I could not have believed possible in my more exuberant youth—a great lump of bad with the good

I quoted an old woman, my friend, a Presbyterian, who said: "My head says hell but my heart won't say

and in their list a month or two after my arrival in London as a student of life and letters this year

I took my seat again (had been around looking over his shoulder) when he started again.

My personal meetings with Kennedy were mostly here: he came over often to see me: little trips, talks

"I shall write out my ideas: make a memorandum of them: but say at the same time, throw these overboard

I repeated my idea of a cover.

W. said: "Yes, I am in favor of calf: anything rather than vellum: the order of my instructions would

Ed," he called out (Ed sat out towards the door), "Ed—go upstairs—on my bed you'll find a little package

The other day, when my sister Gussie stepped in (it was Sunday) to see him, he gave her an envelope thus

inscribed— The Fair Pilot of Loch Uribal.One of my favorite storiesW.W. and inside, some sheets torn

gloomy'—and every time it sets me up"Walt Whitman"it was "By an Idle Voyager"— Said W.: "They copied my

up—touched up to perdition's point: I wrote him about it—not to do it—as you know,—but I suppose he got my

then, "highest is low, sometimes, to the other fellow"—and he was the other fellow in this case.Called my

Also called my attention to another pamphlet—about Rudolf Schmidt—written or sent by Rosenberg (referred

He had forgotten—I told him—that it was Danish, therefore of doubtful meaning to my father.

I laughed in turn: "Perhaps the other fellow would have it to say 'I don't intend to be asked my reasons

My impression is that he will.

I reminded him that in my Whitman piece, he had not filled in date blank for the founding of the Long

I was a mere boy, then—it was in fact my boyish exuberance put into concrete manifestation.

I knew it as well as I do my own.

Now, I can do my business either in the morning or the afternoon, and if you could be at the house with

My call is merely social but as I might never see him again, I count on it greatly.

If not, I shall go straight to Camden.I shall carry an alligator-skin satchel, with my initials in silver

Wallace's letter of 22nd dwells upon duties to me in my service for W. Loving and uplifting.

time you have all been privileged to participate in during the past week & am now longing & straining my

greatly enjoyed—but I know you will understand & take the will for the deed.I am off to Scotland, to my

Home (Annan) in a few days for a short visit to my good dear old Father & Mother.My love to your dear

That wonderful title page I look at & look at, & can't seem to get dovetailed into my mind.

My day had a sad ending.

Please give my very special congratulations to Traubel anent this big volume (for I suppose he helped

And give my regards to your Canadian nurse-friend.

require it—I never undressed coldest nights last winter—tired oft as an old vetrans , I dropped in my

narative. narrative Got a heater last winter, gave a picture for it—pipe passed into chimney through my

room mad made it comfortable— My sister on Staten Island has been dangerously ill for some weeks—now

several children and grand children—sincere— guiless— guileless beloved——I have not seen either of my

Montenotte Cork, Ireland July 23 1871 My dear Sir, I wished to send you a copy of the July No of the

removable error fail in their approach to you, or do not approach at all. that I think I am justified in my

My fixed residence is 50 Wellington Road, Dublin, Ireland.

My work there is that of Professor of English Literature in the University of Dublin.

My Dear Old Friend, The American mail this morning brought me three most welcome letters—one from Herbert

He also says:—"I have sent my warmest love to W.W. by Wallace. Do you also remember me.

J.W.W. & F.W. intended going for a delightful walk in Rivington & much do I regret that my professional

duties have prevented my accompanying them.

My Dear Old Friend, Sitting here on the evening of Good Friday—a general holiday—I thought I w d give

I also took part in the discussion, read extracts from L. of G & shewed showed some of my "Whitman photos

God bless you my dear, old friend, & send you better times!

Please give my kindest regards to HLT & to all your household.

stiff with them—the Bullards I mean the people that are going to move in—the d—m cusses shant have my

water pipe unless the[y] behave decent—yet I suppose the Park people are mean enough to prevent my taking

I had the Times of Friday while eating my Breakfast on Sunday—that is pretty well isnt it.

stay here long—I begin to like the city better—Yet it dont come up to B[rooklyn] by a long chalk— Give my

My own opinion is that he will not recover, that he cannot last long.

do Andrew a great deal of good  In the letter that Mother received yesterday from you, you speak abt my

worries you without doing any good, and another thing it is not like you think in regard to cutting down my

Give yourself no thought abt my worring. Something that I have got entirely past.

Mother, every thing is the same with me, I am feeling very well indeed, the old trouble of my head stopt

& my ears affected, has not troubled me any since I came back here from Brooklyn—I am writing this in

Major Hapgood's old office, cor 15th & F st., where I have my old table & window—it is dusty & chilly

seen, the arrival of the wounded after a battle, & the scenes on the field too, & I can hardly believe my

He , I daresay, is not altogether wrong about my other self, who is possessed at times with the itch

I believe I last wrote to you from Carmarthen, where I stayed with my dear grand-parents, making excursions

thoughts, (as I dropped with ready strides down those Welsh mountains at nightfall, or arm-in-arm with my

Here my Uncle Percival, who is a Naturalist & Poultry-fancier, among other things, has a house almost

sketch of Elias Hicks is very pleasant to see, as like yourself I am proud of having Friends among my

I am going to send you a pamphlet which has in it a sketch of William Grimm by my best friend and fellow-worker

for I should like to see you in the flesh, but that is in the hands of the powers, I do not know how my

But I have no right to trouble you with myself or my concerns and I will stop here wishing you the best

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

Walt Whitman My name is not for publication, though if my subscription were for five thousand dollars

You perhaps remember calling on me 3 or 4 years ago, when I lent you my diary of the war days from which

If you are in present straits, I will enclose you my little offering at once without waiting for a formal

I have been out with my Co on Picket but we are now back to Camp,  I had charge of the line, for more

than a mile, so that I had to keep my Eyes open,  we were posted along the bank of the river which is

Mother you ask if my throat troubles me any now.

Not a bit,  I never felt better in my life,  one thing I have learned in this war, and that is, that

Kurunégala Ceylon 11 Dec 90 My dear Walt— It's good to get your letter of Nov 2 nd forwarded to me here

Too bad my not acknowledging your books—they arrived all right sometime in Sept r and I forwarded one

I am staying just now with my friend Arunáchalam whose name you may remember.

Give my love to Dr Bucke if you write or see him—not forgetting H.

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

Dublin, 18/2 187 6 My dear Mr Whitman I send you an order for 39/= for a copy of your works the $10 edition

I must say that I only know Mr Dowden casually—a person of my world cannot aspire to much acquaintance

My knowledge of literature is very slight—I have not the critical insight into things that he has Dear

My having been obliged to give up all idea of a separate life for myself beyond the grave, forces me

but I expected to come down myself, or send word—but one thing or another delays the publication of my

coming week—I will bring you one when I come down—there is lots in about the pond & the old lane &c. and my

dark equinoctial storm—but I just wish I was down there this minute—a day there in the woods— —Where my

dictionaries &c. you can think of, & everything else— —Nothing very new with me—I still keep well—eat my

Do you think my getting my shirts made so cheaply, or my buying clothes at a low price, has anything

In the 1860 edition he boasts that he will "take for my love some prostitute" ("Enfans d'Adam" number

Dear Walter As I am not a going out to day I thought that my time could not be better imployed than by

Sawyer to day he is well. he sayes that they have bin on the move so that he could not answer my letter

thing about your letter—he is a going to try to get a pass to come up hear this winter— Conserning my

self I am about old fassion. my leg mends slowly (about as it was when you wer hear) I have bin out

Tuesday evening—Jan 23— Mother, I wrote yesterday in my letter that I had a bad cold—I felt quite disagreeable

Bruce to give you Gracie's address in Iowa—I have just got some nice copies of my Am.

to-night & finish it to-morrow— Wednesday afternoon Jan. 24 Mother, I am feeling well to-day—I think my

mostly young men, & a good deal of noise & moving about—but I don't mind it, as it is only from 9 to 3—& my

Fels, Jennie May, and my sister Agnes.

I went in first—he greeted me—then saw and recognized Aggie—said: "How are you, my dear?"

My friends the Staffords lived away from the town—had a farm.

and on my shaking my head: "Well—I have—particularly years ago—in younger years.

Kissed him goodby—he held my hand warmly—said "Goodnight boy—goodnight! We'll meet again!"

says: "There is some peculiar atmospherical influence which reacts strangfely upon the chemistry of my

impossible—really felt that it was out of the question—but after he had gone I turned the matter over in my

W. said of it: "My mind is a slow one—it never hustles: I don't seem to know yet what I think of the

He got up from his chair in rather painful fashion, took my arm, and went with me into the back room.

I for my part don't want to be either haughty or humble.

, who has been here to pay me a visit, says that I am mistaken, that Browning is my man, only that I

I do not assent to that—Corson does not know my appetite and my capacity as well as I know it myself.

I have almost made up my mind to make some use of the themes myself, though I don't know as I'll ever

get to them—so many physical obstacles drop into my pathway these years."

"Yes indeed—lots of 'em—lots of 'em: in fact, some of my best friends in the hospitals were probably

Then I feared it might in part conflict with my other piece now nearly done.

Asked me, "What about my envelopes?" I had seen Cohen. They would not be done till Monday.

My brothers and their folks complain of overcrowding—that I put too much on.

are—whether my head's clear—a whole army of points and points—rank and file."

Asked after certain features of my New England Magazine paper again.

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

I noted the French Review—fain would I have read it, but alas I can only read my own tongue.

meaning of much I see in other tongues, but alas though I often call up spirit alas—comes to aid me at my

of real Kinship between your two natures I felt sorry to find you had not fully grasped the hand of my

I find in my travels and talks with men, many of their poor hard toiling souls to whom his Poems are

least try. we are far apart that is true. yet even here something I might do as a manifestation of my

criticism . . . after full retrospect of his works and life, the aforesaid 'odd-kind chiel' remains to my

Mother, I am quite in hopes George will get a furlough—may-be my expectations are unfounded, but I almost

On February 6, 1863, Jeff wrote: "I think I shall be able to carry through my little 'real estate' scheme

Dear Walt Whitman: Pray forgive my long silence. I have been deep in troubles of my own.

I know the purity and righteousness of your meaning, but that does not alter my regret.

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

evening now planning out this large reception w 33 friends to see your portrait, that I spoke of in my

Give my kind rememberances to Morse, when you are writing, I expect to show his bust along with my others

Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my

keept kept me busy for the past month & I have an old lady staying with me & Jane away so you see that my

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My

Last Thursday evening I went to Sarnia—next morning my brother Julius, my nephew Fred.

It is postmarked: London | PM | MY 28 | 89 | Canada; C.

Whitman found the visitor interesting but too effusive: "My main objection to him, if objection at all

prostration at every hand all around me)—had a good little letter f'm Ed Wilkins —buckwheat cakes & honey for my

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

quiet here, plenty of work, but as long as we can do it we must not grumble at that—still, if I had my

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

hour or two even three or four, every day—a friend sends a hansom & I drive out—or at other times in my

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

Robert Browning (1812–1889), known for his dramatic monologues, including "Porphyria's Lover" and "My

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

Camden March 23 evn'g '91 Getting along tolerably—no worse—relish'd my supper, a dish of string beans

eternities, the one past and the one to come, and it is a delight to me to feel satisfied, and to feel in my

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

My sister fell!

"One day my sister was missing.

He accepted my challenge.

I was blinded by my hate for my sister's betrayer.

My dear Sir: In reply to your note of 12th inst., desiring, as counsel for the Commercial Nav'g'n Co.

, an interview with me during my expected visit to New York, I beg to say that I shall be pleased to