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All well and quiet, am going to town in a few minutes in my cutter first time of using it this season

Asylum for the Insane, London, Feb February 3 d 18 80 My dear Walt I have Burrough's book and also his

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

again but the wheeling is good and the weather clear and charming I am going out for a drive in an hour my

letter to Whitman's disciple and biographer Horace Traubel: "I had a fall last evening and dislocated my

I shall not be surprised to see my highest claims for you (for making which I have been counted a lunatic

My copy of Sarrazin has come to hand by the afternoon's mail—it is as you said, a lovely little book.

Bucke is referring to the group of thirty-one poems taken from Whitman's last miscellany Good-Bye My

For more information on Good-Bye My Fancy, as a book and an annex, see Donald Barlow Stauffer, "Good-Bye

my Fancy (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed.

the heart and so kills you you will live to be a thousand years old which is a fate I would not wish my

best friend or worst enemy I send you my love always R M Bucke Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman

Bucke is referring to Whitman's poem "My 71st Year," which would be published in Century Illustrated

D r Harkness (my old friend who you met in Kingston in '80 and who went up the Saguenay with us ) is

This sick spell of mine has knocked all my calculations endways—do not at all know now when I shall go

east or what I shall do—shall probably go to England after a while and see you on my way Best love R

If you would tell Horace to write me your decision on each of these points you would relieve my mind

No hitch so far about my getting off by the Brittannic on 8 .

I send you my list of misprints—guess you have them all already—have found no new ones lately—not looking

I have written to M c K. as follows: "Please let Mr W. have any copies he wants of my W.

My plans at present are to be in Washington (at Med. Supp. Ass.

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

They make an immensely valuable addition to my "W.W.

I shall have to get at my lectures on "mental diseases" for the students at medical college here as soon

Asylum for the Insane, London, 31 st Dec. 18 81 My dear Walt Just a line to tell you that we have another

I have gladly accepted as I am most anxious to have my impressions as to the attitude of the Smiths towards

INSANE ASYLUM LONDON ONTARIO 31 March 18 91 re "Goodbye My Fancy" Ruskin says of great writers that they

"spiritual, godly, most of all known to my sense." and I understand (tho' you will never tell—perhaps

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

Whitman, late in life, said to Horace Traubel: "[I] take my Ruskin with some qualifications."

Both poems were reprinted in Whitman's Good-Bye My Fancy (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891).

s Purport" from Good-Bye My Fancy (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891).

All goes well, I am hearty and having a good time but shall be glad to get back and see my American &

[London, Ontario] 4 Dec [188]6 My dear Walt The "After All" parcel came to hand last evening to my great

November 4. 1877 My dear Walt Whitman I send you by this mail a copy of one essay of mine which is just

My plan is that sometime (any time) before the 1 st June John Burroughs should run down to Philadelphia

I am writing in my office. I can just see to write without the gas and that is all.

Nearly every one at my house is more or less sick—some of them pretty bad (but nothing dangerous so far

forward hopefully to many a good hour with you yet when the success of the meter shall have loosened my

hands and my feet from some of the restraints that are now upon them.

My arm gets on finely, am at office every day, eat & sleep fairly well Love to you R M Bucke hand to

letter to Whitman's disciple and biographer Horace Traubel: "I had a fall last evening and dislocated my

My folks at the house are all well.

I shall be pretty busy now for a while after my absence gathering up the ends of the strings and getting

them in order in my hands again—fortunately for me I have good, honest, faithful, capable assistants

"Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and was reprinted in Good-Bye My

It is postmarked: LONDON | PM) | MY 5 | 91 | CANADA.; CAMDEN, N.J. | MAY | 6 | 4 | 1891 | REC'D.

up yet, but as far as I am concerned I like it first rate have a good hard coal fire in the grate in my

My annual report is nearly all in rough draft and some of it copied out—it will be considerably longer

We are all well here I send you my love R M Bucke Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 6 December 1888

of these paid for & 10 to be acct'd for & 4 TR Asylum for the Insane, London, Feb February 6 18 80 My

I delivered my lecture in Chatham the other day and this is some of the result—I shall probably have

I am well again, go my round, &c & as usual—feel first rate too—good appetite, sleep well, &c.

My brother Eustace (who you will remember)—we call him Duke—arrived here at noon today from Ottawa We

Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman

Have heard nothing yet from Lippencott Lippincott and have done nothing further about my piece but all

I don't see anything to whine about in getting old—think (on the whole) it is rather a good joke—my strongest

6 March [18]91 Yours of 28 th ult and 1 st inst reached me day before yesterday as I was on my way to

out there much. [—] I hope now not to be so crowded and to have more time to write and keep track of my

greatest admiration for him and the magnificent way he has behaved all through—I hope it may be in my

power someday to show my appreciation of his excellent qualities in some practical way.

a splendid fellow and I trust I may often see him and the other good Bolton fellows before I finish my

I wish you had some of my physical strength, dear Walt, so that Major Pond might take you on the lecture

Dillingham Co: New York), he writes of Whitman: "Whitman gave a few readings under my management during

the November 27 issue (p. 282), however, did contain a paragraph about Whitman's forthcoming Good-Bye My

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

I could convey no idea to you of how it affects my soul.

I got it, looked into it with wonder, and felt that here was something that touched on depths of my humanity

sane people about the institution more or less sick. 2 out of the 4 doctors in bed nearly every one at my

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

It is postmarked: LONDON | MY 7 | 91 | CANADA.; CAMDEN, N.J. | MAY | 9 | 1PM | 1891 | REC'D.

The preface was included in Good-Bye My Fancy (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891), 51–53.

is and has been warm even here but not disagreeably so—you will recollect that I have proofs to 117 —my

of fresh air, have since had a cup of tea and a piece of dry toast and am now (630 P.M.) sitting at my

desk in my office at the Asylum.

Sometimes as I read it I feel as if my whole previous life were rolling en masse through me and as if

Tomorrow I give my 7 th lecture to the students—one more will end the course for this year.

We are all well I send you my best love R M Bucke Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 8 December 1889

I know something of it and of you—that is greatness enough for me—yes and greatness enough to carry my

entitled "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" and sixty-five poems; while the second, "Good-Bye my

I find I have it in my catalogue.

trust you are (even if "very very slowly") gaining and am glad to have you say that you believe in my

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

My oldest boy, Maurice is appointed on the Geological Survey at $ 60.00 , and found—pretty good, eh?

ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE LONDON, ONTARIO London, Ont. 8 Nov 188 9 It is after tea (7 P.M.), I am over in my

soon as I get a few hundred that I can spare (and I look for that time to come very soon now) it is my

I fancy Herbert Gilchrist must be with you by this time—give him my kind regards and tell him I hope

Yesterday was my wedding day—we are 23 years married —getting to be quite old folk!