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Acknowledging that the "death-envelop'd march of peace as well as war goes on," "Weave in, My Hardy Life
enclose herewith a copy of a Report which has been made to me by the Chief Clerk of this Office, in which my
in this office, is one in which the importance of the questions involved makes it proper to embody my
United States, in conformity to the provisions of the Civil Rights Act, it would be expedient, and in my
My object is, to ascertain whether a resort should not be had in all cases by parties interested, to
If so, information to that effect would satisfy my present inquiry.
B. " 25 seq p 155 my duty to pronounce any opinion upon the expediency of issuing a pardon upon such
I can only say that upon a careful examination of all the papers submitted for my consideration, it does
But at present the case does not seem to be such as to make the occasion a proper one for my interference
Sir: I have the honor to refer you to your letter of the 25th April last, and my reply of 6th May following
suspend the case of Christian Priesendantz for a few days—but enclose for your information a copy of my
Louis Packet Company, is submitted to me for my opinion on the questions of law arising in the premises
of them, and that I would with pleasure consider the questions of law in the case, should he desire my
Solicitor of the Treasury, requesting my advice upon certain questions arising upon the claim of the
My predecessors have repeatedly declined to give opinions at the instance of other officers than those
Should you desire my opinion upon the law of the case, it will afford me pleasure to consider the questions
involved, and communicate to my views in regard to them.
Sir: After my letter of yesterday, relative to the case of United States, vs .
The circumstances which I mentioned in my former letter on this subject, however, render it practically
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
I am anxious to know whether you will generously consent to my using in full the poems named.
May I hope for the honor of being permitted to dedicate my little volume of essays to yourself, in sincere
Forgive my intruding upon your privacy, — believe me, with much respect, Sincerely Yours Oswald Cave
P Armachalain | the Hindoo Brighton, England Aug. 25, 1879 My dear Sir, your four books, two photos and
I gave one set of the books you sent me to my uncle's widow Lady Cosmara Scotney (a young English lady
I often see your name mentioned in the various papers, and I have your address in my Memorandum Book.
I am living with my Son in law his wife (my daughter) and their 2 children.
signature, might suffice and I would be pleased to hold a letter from you, one who I esteem, one who knew , my
Samuel Harris Smith (1829–1864) was a captain of the Union army and served alongside his brother Palin
Steel of South Carolina in 1880 that read: "At the battle of the Mine, at Petersburg, 1864, I was Captain
Company I, Seventeenth Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, and in this desperate hand to hand fight, a Captain
Sims, of a New York regiment (I think from Brooklyn), as he mounted the breastworks immediately before my
first person, the poem begins with an apostrophe to the painter, "I...enter lists with thee, claiming my
Lowell was his bitterest enemy: "'Lowell never even tolerated me as a man: he not only objected to my
at this benefit Lowell is said to have exclaimed, "This has been one of the most impressive hours of my
They were also nearly exact contemporaries, and Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!"
Whitman's poems, "O Captain! My Captain!"
Whitman eventually added four poems: "O Captain! My Captain!
"O Captain!"
The Lincoln poems, particularly "O Captain!
"Damn My Captain," he said, "I'm almost sorry I ever wrote the poem" (With Walt Whitman 2:304).
the successor of Rees Welsh, including November Boughs and a new printing of Leaves in 1888, Good-Bye My
Now he announces: "I am indifferent to my own songs" (l. 44); it is enough that he is to be with the
The five-line poem VI poses the question: "What think you I have taken my pen to record?"
My summary at the outset of this article delineates a coherent, frank, confident, and even ebullient
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman (Boston: Beacon Press, 1985), p. 131.
My observations appear as footnotes.
That is not my goal; nor is it my goal to deal with, for example, the historical issues of Whitman’s,
Also, he is overly fond of O Captain! My Captain!
“O Captain! My Captain!” (Vol.
My Captain!”
or ambition to articulate and faithfully express in literary and poetic form, and uncompromisingly, my
say entirely my own way, and put it unerringly on record."
In another place the feeling of pride leads to this exclamation: "My Book and I—what a period we have
Difficult as it will be, it has become, in my opinion, imperative to achieve a shifted attitude from
These snowy hairs, my feeble arm, my frozen feet, For them thy faith, thy role I take, and grave it to
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
"Unstopp'd and unwarp'd by any influence outside the soul within me, I have had my say entirely my own
Let us quote the two poems entitled "Halcyon Days" and "Queries to my Seventieth Year."
London Aug 5. 87 My dear Friend Walt Whitman I write you from the Reading Room of the British Museum.
I have just laid it down and taken up my pen to tell you of the fresh and vigorous fruit your rattling
My address is No 48 Rue d'Orsel Paris. Very affectionately yours Percy Ives.
Oct 21-1886. 48 Rue d'Orsel Montmartre My dear Walt Whitman.
Those fellows have one virtue—they always use good paper: and on that I manage to do a good deal of my
If the Spirit moves me, I will give you my opinion of the book when I have read it carefully that is
if you should care to know my opinion.
consist of Washington Georgetown & Alexandria it is supposed that Mr Colfax will address the meeting In my
other letter i wrote you that my mother was sick i am happy to state that she has got entirely well.
i received your Papers last monday i have been Very anxious to write to you but the Death of one of my
about ten minutes ago cant Explain explain the Pleasure pleasure experience from your letters Farewell my
Hart got on my car last night on my last trip.
others You may not be interested with his affairs so i will come to close excuse this short letter as my
car is going [to] start & i want [to] put this in the mail good bye My Dear friend Pete i will write
If you see him, tell him I have not forgot him, but send him my love, & will be back in Washington again
Noyes is in town he was on my car yesterday (sunday) & he looks first rate i told him i sent you the
In his letter to Doyle on October 2, 1868, Whitman begins: "You say it is a pleasure to get my letters—well
. & if there is any chances of getting into the Fire Department also to give my respects to all inquiring
As there was nothing done yesterday & the day before on account of the funeral, my waiting for your reply
The copy of "Leaves of Grass" is at my office subject to your order.
I hope that you will not be offended at the imperfect way in which I have tried to express my faith in
This last pleasure has been denied me; but one of the pleasantest memories of my life is the recollection
The poem of yours that I read over with the most satisfaction is your Burial Hymn of Lincoln —But as my
I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is
I wish to see my benefactor, and have felt much like striking my tasks and visiting New York to pay you
my respects.
and literary critic with whom she had just initiated a crucial correspondence, "that being foreign to my
My Soul and I: The Inner Life of Walt Whitman. Boston: Beacon, 1985.Erkkila, Betsy.
My address: 231 S. Ashland Ave, Chicago, Ill.
mouth.—— I My eyes are bloodshot, they look down the river, A steamboat carries off paddles away my woman
beard, and reached till you held my feet."
Oh my free, proud, secure soul, where are you?"
'The moment my eyes fell on him I was content.'"
My only dread is lest my love should blind me, & my heart whisper "Tomorrow" when my reason says "Today
withthelatestincrease.Iamto-day,(May31,1861,)justforty-twoyears old—for I write this introduction on my
To the best of my knowledge, pensive has not received any consideration in Whitman criticism, and yet
Then he quietly chuckled: "But that's not surprising, not exceptional: my schemes never came to anything
back of this letter to draft "Grand is the Seen," a poem that was first published in his book Good-Bye My
My friend is a great admirer of yours. him and I have lately been reading your "Leaves of Grass" and
Townsend Trowbridge left a deft and important portrait of their relationship in his autobiography, My
In My Own Story Trowbridge relates how he first came across excerpts of Leaves of Grass while staying
accepted me on general principles and has never so far as I know revised his original declaration in my
little scholarship exists which examines Whitman's influence on Trowbridge but surely poems such as "My
My Own Story. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. ———. The Poetical Works of John Townsend Trowbridge.
section 1); in "Song of Myself" he is situated "Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my
in 1882: "But first I may as well say what I should not otherwise have said, that I always knew in my
heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.
wrestling, boiling-hot days" (1336).Concluding the letter, Whitman calls Emerson "the original true Captain