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Where day and night I wend thy surf‑beat shore, Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions, Thy

Counting the tally of the surf‑suggestions wordless utterance of these liquid tongues And To pass within my

utterance tale of subterranean toil and wrongs Unf For once Seems here C c onfided to me * To pass within my

I got too the paper with translation from my essay, for which I owe the editor & translator deep thanks

Bucke about my lecture.

is progressing well, though the necessity of taking pupils which I am under now costs a good deal of my

The essay alluded to is probably Whitman's "A Backward Glance on My Own Road" in the January 5, 1884

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 Dearest Friend: Those few words of yours to Herby "tasted good" to us —few, but enough, seeing that

here as by a kind of natural destiny that has to be fulfilled very cheerfully, could I make America my

I say how very highly I prize that last slip you sent me, "A backward glance on my own road"?

"A Backward Glance on My Own Road," The Critic, 4 (5 January 1884), 1–2.

endorsement of your friendly enterprise, translating and publishing in Germany, some of the poems of my

It has not been for my own country alone —ambitious as the saying so may seem— that I have composed that

One purpose of my chants is to cordially salute all foreign lands in America's name.

months but am now better & shall soon be ab't as of late years—I have moved into a little old shanty of my

wistful thoughts" that, "were not I & mine bound here by unseverable ties, . . . could I make America my

[I approve of your attempt to translate certain of my poems into the German tongue.

Indeed, arrogant as the statement may seem, I had more than my own native land in view when I was composing

I had also in mind, as one of my objects, to send a hearty greeting to these lands in America's name.

My Dearest Friend: Your card (your very voice & touch, drawing me across the Atlantic close beside you

) was put into my hand just as I was busy copying out "With husky, haughty lips O sea" to pin into my

I think, after all, that my former objections to giving the English of the L. of G. with the translation

We go for a month or so into the country soon, and from the time you get this till the end of June my

Now I am out here, and circumstances contrary to my wishes, will keep me here indefinitely.

This is one of my homesick days, and I have been thinking over what there is in the north that I would

When I read I say "Yes, I am she, O you wise poet," and sometimes I think I must put out my hand for

and I am sure that we have gone together down that brown road a great many times; and perhaps it was my

I am very glad my eyes found the message you hid away for me—hid so deeply, though, that I barely found

In my opinion, it marks a new era in American Literature; and is to stand out more and more prominently

Private 328 Mickle st Camden May 27 My dear friend If convenient & you can print the following, just

am pretty much as usual again after quite a long siege—I am here in a little old house I have bought—my

a couple of elderly folks, acquaintances of mine, Mr and Mrs Lay, they live in the house, & I take my

all ever so much better than the Stevens Street business—Am not doing any thing lately, & the sale of my

serviceable present, from Mary & Alys Smith & Mrs S. nice new sheets & pillow and bolster cases for my

request I cheerfully agree to it—As far as I have power to do so I hereby grant you the right of setting my

My Dear Bolger Here is an article I have reeled off for you if you want it your telegram recd recieved

Whitman says "no one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance, or

After celebrating and singing himself, he continues: "I loafe, and invite my soul."

I have read "As a strong bird on pinions free" and can hardly express my admiration for your poetry.

if you would be kind enough to put your autograph in it and I hope you will not think it immodest in my

Dear Walt Whitman, "That my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing

Yes, and how "utterly quelled and defeated" too I have felt to find my strength so much less than my

each one the core of life, namely happiness, is full of the rotten excrement of maggots," and so in my

Leaves of Grass laid on my lightstand, and I opened to "Song of the Universe."

fast the world moves to me when I read such thoughts, and how slow when I carry them with me among my

Minchen is quoting from Whitman's poem "Who Learns My Lesson Complete."

If I am so fortunate as to regain my health I hope to weaken the force of that statement, at least in

sofar as my talent & training will permit.

My artistic enthusiasm was never so thoroughly stirred up as by the indians They certainly have more

EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT THE CENTURY MAGAZINE UNION SQUARE NEW YORK Walt Whitman, Esq., My dear Sir: We are

Walt Whitman: I came across your, and now my, Leaves of Grass when I was eighteen, that is a year ago

I took it to my mother and "wheedled" her as she says, and got her to give the "leaves" to me.

At the page where you breathed on and pressed your hand, I also pressed my hand and so we have had a

condition of London and I am working hard to get out of it and back to America, where I shall bury my

And you have done my brothers & sisters, the race, good.

I do indeed feel proud to have it direct from the Author, & to have my name written in it by himself.

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

gave him the letter to print—I enclose you the slip—how well & off-hand it reads —I am living here in my

Lay (my housekeeper) was attacked with cholera infantum & brain trouble a week ago—the doctor insisted

Please give me, (as under Section 6 of your Copyright Directions of 1882), the 14 years renewal of my

I am getting on—my heart is in my work—& though I have been long about it, it won't be long—but I think

Dresden My Dear Walt— I write to tell you how things are going now about the translation, &c.

First I translated all I am going to give as well as I could out of my own unassisted resources and handed

over the M.S. manuscript to my colleague.

my preface to the work and Freiligrath's article from the Allg.

My address then will be Glasshouse, Shinrone, Ireland. This indeed is always sure to find me.

his January 16, 1872 letter to Rudolf Schmidt, Whitman wrote that Freiligrath "translates & commends my

EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT THE CENTURY MAGAZINE UNION SQUARE NEW YORK Marion, Mass My dear Mr.

My Dear Sir: In Baldwin's Monthly for July there was quite a long article relating to yourself, written

My guess would be that when fairly afloat it might have quite as much sale here in the United States

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey Aug: 21 '84 My dear Sir First begging your pardon & hoping "I dont

the magazine market—or rather have written—a reminiscence of the actors & plays & "the old Bowery" of my

youthful days—the chief figure in it being your father—by far the greatest histrion I have ever seen in my

get things for myself—or I wouldn't trouble you— Won't you allow me to send you an autograph copy of my

in Booth's words, "poor copies of the good portraits that are in some secure, forgotten place among my

Dear Sir— I shall go to Boston Tuesday and will endeavor to get a portrait of my father—I have none here

Dear Sir— I have tried in vain to obtain a good portrait of my father for you and am reduced to this

not read) containing poor copies of the good portraits that are in some secure, forgotten place among my

traps—stored in garret or cellar of my new house where all things are at sixes and sevens.

that fills the bill)—But the volume is more helpful to me (in touches, corrections, guidance &c to my

My dear friend, Can you not come over Friday and stay till Monday with me?

My dear Walt— I got your second letter yesterday, forwarded here from Dresden.

I have mentioned it in my preface.

I sent with my M.S. manuscript a copy of Freiligrath's article, & did all I could to secure a favourable

But I think I can rely on my father's helping me to the extent needed.

He & my mother are greatly delighted with the two grandchildren we have brought them home.

his January 16, 1872 letter to Rudolf Schmidt, Whitman wrote that Freiligrath "translates & commends my

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

Borrowdale, Cressington Park Sep 29 To Walter Whitman, Esq r Sir, To my only Brother, who for nearly

has been a helpless sufferer in Santiago, I am sending a specially prepared Birthday Book: and it is my

very earnest wish to obtain for insertion in my Book the name of your most honored self.

I trust you will graciously pardon my freedom in asking the favour of your sign-manual on enclosed slip

It is in the Critic of Sept. 27 —Dry and warm and often oppressive weather here—a long spell—My lameness

I believe that the picture will make my name as an artist, a few months will show!

Camden New Jersey October 1 1884 Received from Critic Fifteen Dollars for my piece " What Lurks " &c—

Thursday P M Oct: 9 '84 My dear Williams I leave you this in hopes you can use it in to-morrow's paper

328 Mickle Street Camden Oct 11 '84 My dear friend Thank you for your kind & warm invitation to write

Walt Whitman I enclose my last screed in the Critic Walt Whitman to Talcott Williams, 11 October 1884

328 Mickle Street Camden Oct 12 pm My dear Williams After I sent your note in answer yesterday—& reading

328 Mickle Street Camden Oct: 13 My dear Williams I should like the little Presidential canvass poem

My condition is drawing genera l attention, and the old querie query is asked me; "has she no friend?

Respecting public opinion of my services toward her, a neighbour neighbor of twenty years lately remarked

My dearest Brother How very good you are to send me so much,—It was a great surprise, I dont don't know

know you feel so much interest in me, but Walt dear I shall mind fearfully your spending more money on my

—I have always thought if I was dangerously sick, my greatest wish would be to see you.

I am alone, my being sick has been bad for him I know '84 Hannah Whitman Heyde to Walt Whitman, 20 October

"So my friends tell me, but I never met him." "Don't you think, Mr.

Since I first read your poems years ago now they have always had a great influence on my thoughts and

I have found out the truth of your words too from my short experience of life in deed as well as in thought

Your Leaves of Grass I keep with my Shakespeare and my Bible and it is from these three that I have got