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regulations, to the beach, where the speaker bathes in the sea and watches the sun rise and thinks how "my
dear friend my lover was on his way coming."
Buffalo— 12 Jan y 1863 Dear Sir, I am very sorry to be so late with my reply to your note, which was
You will see that I have dated my note from my known residence. With best hope, R. W.
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, & have felt much like striking my tasks, & visiting New York to pay you
my respects.
letter from December 29, 1862: "I wish you would write for me something…that I can present, opening my
Chase, however, kept the letter because he wanted an Emerson autograph; see Trowbridge, My Own Story
My work is well known in England & I possess the highest possible testimonials regarding it from Cardinal
Yours Raymond Blathwayt I might add that Lord Tennyson lives in the parish in the I. of Wight of which my
May 6, 1891 My Dear Sir I hope you will allow me to come & have a chat with you for the Pall Mall Gazette
Commemoration Ode," which has often, since its publication, been contrasted with Whitman's own tribute, "O Captain
My Captain!" For further information on Whitman's views of Lowell, see William A.
Atlantic Av Your essay on Democracy stirred the depths within me I would say no flatering word to you my
I am unlearned and cannot see the same thoughts so as to form them in my mind yet their power is clear
on Earth and good will to man) was it ( Glory to God in the highest )—perhaps so if I had have put my
What a boon is Life. how glad I am every day that I am priveledged privileged to be one among my fellows
/ O I will put my motto over it, as it is over the top of this song!" (Whitman, Blue Book 1:188).
He publicly acknowledged Longfellow and recorded their second encounter in "My Tribute to Four Poets.
visit was an important acknowledgment of his work, Whitman in turn publicly acknowledged Longfellow in "My
man who tenderly nursed the wounded Union soldiers and as tenderly sung the dirge of their great captain
Permit me to assure that such a motive was foreign to my mind.
My object in calling upon you was simply that of friendly interest which I had been encouraged to think
If my presence was an intrusion pray pardon it: but do not I beseech you attribute to presumption or
Endlich 1891, im Winter vor seinem Todesjahr, das gleichfalls gemischte Bändchen „Good-bye my Fancy“
die Prosaschriften in dieser Reihenfolge: „Specimen Days“, „Collect“, „November Boughs“ und „Good-bye my
Siebzigjährigen“). 1891, im Dezember, im Winter vor seinem Todesjahr, erschien als Sonderdruck „Good-bye my
I Wish to Give My Own View': Some Nineteenth-Century Women's Responses to the 1860 Leaves of Grass."
against him and his ancesters ancestors , though I guess he has forgot it all now, anyhow give him my
Captain Respegius Edward Lindell worked for the Camden ferries (Specimen Days, ed.
Captain Charles W. Walton was a member of the Fifty-first Regiment, New York State Volunteers.
I had an auction yestarday yesterday 4 of March to sell my Personally personal troperty property as I
told you in my other letter I have rented my farm of 35 acers acres for 5 years I would like to see
Why can not you com come & see my family I have a wife & littel little Girl 5 years old this month When
the house I felt proud of it myself I will have to get a frame for it and hang it up on the wall Walt my
We move about half a mile from this place my Post office will be the same (address) your in hast haste
Aug 20, 1875 Aug 16 th 1875 Dear Uncle Walt I received your Postal Card. but I was away to work when my
will say that we are well as common I am going to California in November if the Lord will permit that my
Boys in Armory where you were But they could not tell Now Uncle if you will (not) Answer this after My
On March 5, 1875, Farwell, who owned a farm in Michigan, wrote: "Walt my dear old Friend how I would
Dear Friend I once promised to write you & as often as convient So far I have fullfulled my part.
Since my joineing My Regiment It has been nothing but marching & fighting the Johnnys.
The reason of my leaveing was because I could not see to ride or walk.
often as possible Even if it is pencil marks I hope that this may find you enjoying good health Give my
On March 5, 1875, Farwell, who owned a farm in Michigan, wrote: "Walt my dear old Friend how I would
This was not any of my own luck but to accompany the newly married set was all I was on the Company.
I have received only this letter Oct 7th & one writen to My Father of which both reached me the same
But this one I have neglected on account of my being a way from home so long.
not tell of my being hit there.
My health is very good at present Also the same I wish to you My best wishes gose with this to you Yours
On March 5, 1875, Farwell, who owned a farm in Michigan, wrote: "Walt my dear old Friend how I would
Kind Uncle & Friend Yours came to me on Friday last much sooner than I expected Because my being so negligent
I have been thinking about going there this winter to wile a way some of these lonesome days My Folks
have some objections to my going where I have been so often for the last three years.
Well Uncle I hope this may find you still alive & well My best respects To you, My Uncle Adieu till next
On March 5, 1875, Farwell, who owned a farm in Michigan, wrote: "Walt my dear old Friend how I would
S So I concluded to find out by dropping a few lines to you I hope my Dear Uncle that nothing has befallen
On March 5, 1875, Farwell, who owned a farm in Michigan, wrote: "Walt my dear old Friend how I would
is one reason why I had rather be sent to the Regiment I would not stay around this City the rest of my
My best wishes are with you for indeed I have found a Friend at last to the poor Soldier I will close
On March 5, 1875, Farwell, who owned a farm in Michigan, wrote: "Walt my dear old Friend how I would
My wishes are that this may find you enjoying good health and plenty of kind friends to associate with
close by expecting to have a better opportunity of writing some thing else when you hear from me again My
On March 5, 1875, Farwell, who owned a farm in Michigan, wrote: "Walt my dear old Friend how I would
Complete in body and dilate in spirit, / Be thou my God" ("Gods") or when in the 1855 version of "Song
of Myself" he called God "a loving bedfellow [who] sleeps at my side all night and close on the peep
driver and met Whitman one stormy night in 1865 when Whitman, looking (as Doyle said) "like an old sea-captain
W. laughed heartily the instant I put my hands on it (I had seen it often before)—Harned mimicked Doyle
, W. retorting: 'Never mind, the expression on my face atones for all that is lacking in his.
Doyle should be a girl'—but W. shook his head, laughing again: 'No—don't be too hard on it: that is my
My impressions were written on the next day, and my memory has been vividly refreshed.
He walked with bared head to my desk and laid one in my hand, saying: Please tell Mr.
The voice caught my ear.
on my desk.
My metre is loose and free.
My Dear Walt Whitman: May I hope that you are better than the papers say?
May 30.1889— My Dear Walt— Let me send my hand & heart to you in this pen-scrawl, bearing loving, reverential
Accept then my love, my hopes of other birthdays, my fraternal & gladsome kiss and word on this birthday
However I offer you my congratulations.
Fraternally & Faithfully yours "Dick" (RJ) Hinton My wife joins me fully. Richard J.
Waukesha, Wis., Oct 16 188 9 My dear Mr.
My dear Mr Whitman An earnest hand–shake on your birthday & continued presence among us!
"Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and was reprinted in Good-Bye My
I spend my evenings altogether at the hospitals— my days often.
He is of my own party; and my politicshave been from my youth essentiallythe same ashis own.
Who 1,arns my Lesson complete.
My hands, my limbs grow nerveless.
The lecture closed with the recitation by the author of his grandly pathetic ' lament, O Captain, my
perhaps other illustrations (why not use the phototypes of your father & mother that Gutekunst got up for my
Your friend RM Bucke Gables Here is a Bucke letter which you may stick into the proper place of my vol
previously published in Leaves of Grass, "Passage to India" was Whitman's attempt to "celebrate in my
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
[London,] Nov. 9 th 79 My dear Walt Whitman For the last two weeks I have been expecting to hear from
Rock Mountains—gave out about two weeks ago & have been quite sick ever since (principal trouble with my
November 4. 1877 My dear Walt Whitman I send you by this mail a copy of one essay of mine which is just
I have had quite a spell of it—been in bed and in my room since 10 th say 17. days—a long sick spell
My work has fallen behind at the office (tho Beemer has done first rate while I was sick) shall have
29 reporting that you had been downstairs on 28 to a dinner of "Roast Turkey & Plum Pudding" I gave my
I did think of putting off my trip until the end of May but there are reasons why I had better go now—I
It is postmarked: LONDON | AM | MY 23 | 81 | CANADA.
I wish you would speak to M c Kay about the circulars he was to print for me in re my vol. "W. W."
We are all well here, I am up to my eyes in work, have to write my annual report in the next two weeks
9 th Nov. 82 My dear Walt I have your card of 6 and we shall count on your coming here early in Dec.
would it not be as well (or necessary) for me to go to Philadelphia to arrange for the publication of my
appreciated by me—I am also very much pleased to have the photo, both to tell me how you look now and for my
Now my dear Walt I don't want to hurry you or worry you but now that you have L. & of G. and S.D. both
any less desirable—I hope S.D. will sell and that Rees Welsh & Co. will feel disposed to take hold of my
Asylum for the Insane, London, 31 st Dec. 18 81 My dear Walt Just a line to tell you that we have another
of to do is to have the correspondence just forwarded me by O'Connor printed with some comments of my
Please let me know at once what you think of my plan Your friend R M Bucke Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt
My plan is that sometime (any time) before the 1 st June John Burroughs should run down to Philadelphia
The preface was included in Good-Bye My Fancy (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891), 51–53.
The preface was included in Good-Bye My Fancy (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891), 51–53.
My annual Report is most done hope to finish it tomorrow—all well here!
The "Rejoinder" was later reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) (see Prose Works 1892, Volume 2: Collect