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My Dear Walt.

All of us well—especially my two little boys, who enjoy the country life very much.

Louis, Sept. 11th 188 5 My dear Walt Enclosed please find check for $10—payable to your order  This check

"What's all this about, my boy?"

"Is it a patent of nobility, or is it an address from a lot of my young friends?"

My paralysis has made me so lame lately that I had to give up even my walks for health, let alone my

rambles in the country, and my constitution has suffered for exercise.

TO EASE MY DECLINING YEARS.

Sept. 15 '85 328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey U S America My dear friend Yours of Sept: 5 just rec'd

noble-hearted young man — As far as I can perceive & understand your scheme is managed admirably & to my

a better account of your health yet, hoped that you were beginning to get around as usual, and like my

Alma Tadema the most celebrated artist over here has written to congratulate me over my last picture

It is rather a feather in my cap—and will perhaps prove a turning point in my artistic career, who knows

I lead a quiet but moderately varied life and am able to enjoy my work and possess one or two friends

It escaped me to mention in my previous letter that a Mr.

I shall talk to my Dr Doctor about you when I see him again, but if I were you I would adopt such a diet

as would make my blood as thin as possible, & so lessen the arterial strain This is common sense, &

Well, my time has come—that is all. You see, I am somewhat of a fatalist!"

Dr Knortz & send you—although he has of course notified you to same effect—I am still living here in my

spirits—but get around with great difficulty, (or rather I should say hardly at all) & have been stricken in my

My dear Sir; The translations of your poems are now ready for the printer and the MS will sail for Europe

thought of your cordial invitation to me to write to you, but I have waited until I have got settled into my

Without much trouble I found a sunny room in Cambridge and having at last got my books within reach I

It is pleasant to be my own master again, and to be able, for the present at least, to follow my inclinations

—But I must stop, first, because you may find my garrulity tedious, and second, because the clocks have

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.

I get out in it every day—my only exercise—and I find it the easiest riding vehicle I ever sat in.

I have lived as yet but eighteen years: yet in all the constant thoughts and acts of my last few years

, your words have been my guides and true oracles.

spirit of self-assertion: but that I should feel shame for myself, were I not to show the reality of my

gratitude to you, even through the weakness of words—you, whom I thankfully acknowledge for my veritable

stands in the way won't you please state what you will ask for it, and then I shall have the matter off my

"My eyes are feeling pretty badly, and yesterday and to-day I consulted Dr.

I have lost my poise in walking and cannot promenade at all.

I go out every day in my carriage, and a friend of mine, Willie Duckett, a neighbor's little boy, always

I still retain my hopeful, bouyant spirits. I feel better to-night than I have for several days."

My Dear Walt Whitman: I am very, very sorry to learn that your physical condition is so low and that

Am laid up just now with a kick from my horse—luckily nothing very bad—he struck me (accidentally in

[To Ernest Rhys] 328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey U S America Nov. 9 1885 My dear Sir Excuse the delay—I

As I understand it, the plan is to make a selection from my Poems & put them in a Volume of your "Canterbury

William Osler, Whitman went to see Professor Norris "ab't my eyes . . . satisfactory visit & examination—I

Since I wrote last to you little sums have been accumulating in my hands: I enclose an account of them

Rossetti of November 30, 1885, he has little positive to say about his health: "nothing new with me, only my

Walt Whitman Esteemed Sir, Will you permit me to offer you, as emphasizing my appreciation of the melodies

its every drop distills something of the warm appreciation your exceptional creations have kindled in my

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey Nov: 25 '85 My dear W R T Thanks for the $5. "remembrance."

My sight is better—walking power slim, almost not at all—spirits buoyant. Glad to get your letters.

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey Nov: 30 '85 My dear Wm Rossetti Yours of Nov: 13 with 31 pounds 19

shillings has been received—the third instalment of the "offering" —my thanks are indeed deeper than

been writing to Herbert Gilchrist ab't his mother, & am filled with sadness—nothing new with me, only my

Herbert Gilchrist What on earth can I say to you in response to the news about your dearest mother in my

all the time —I have seriously considered coming to London—but it seems impossible—I am still here—my

eyesight is less disturbed, is nearly ab't as formerly—but my walking power worse than ever—they have

cheery & buoyant as ever—I eat and sleep fairly—am so far without any pain of violence—& still have my

—O how I wish I could see your dearest mother—again my best, deepest love to her.

She died in my arms."

Belmont Mass Dec 2 '85 My Dear Whitman— Maugre yr your wholesome advice, (exc. that I put in a page on

you & Hugo—parallelism of poetic-technique en-avant freshness &c) I have done gone & published my essay

I set up every stick of it mesilf indade , & corrected my proofs ( wh. which I'll have you know) were

Well, I have learned just enough to set up this & my poems (Heaven bless the mark—"poems" quotha,—I wd'nt

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

Dear Walt The lovely spirit fled on Sunday afternoon at five o'clock.....My darling mother's life has

Some day next year I am going to send you a photograph from my last picture of mother I painted it this

I and brother (Percy Carlyle Gilchrist ) placed her semblance in my father's grave this morning at Kensal-Green

She died in my arms.

III. of my "Walt Whitman."

scientific American point of view—as it certainly is the highest & deepest (complimentary) statement of my

gone—Spirits buoyant & hearty— —The December sun is shining out wistfully as I finish, & I am going out in my

85 Camden New Jersey U S America Dear Herbert Gilchrist As I doubt I made some small misfiguring in my

Dec 6th 188 5 Mr Walt Whitman My Dear Old Friend.

—I am middling well—the trouble in my eyesight (& very annoying it was to my anchor'd condition) seems

ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE LA 1565 328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey Dec: 10 1885 Thank you my dear J R—&

the other was lost in the mail | JR # 3 447-1928 328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey Dec: 15 '85—noon My

present thinking over her life is the only thing that I take pleasure in: indeed I am unable to get my

328 Mickle Street Camden Dec: 21 '85 My dear friend Real glad to hear from you once more, as by yours

Seems to me mortality never enclosed a more beautiful spirit— The trouble ab't my eyesight passed over

had dinner &c—I go there every Sunday—So I get stirr'd up some, but not half enough—three reasons, my

natural sluggishness & the paralysis of late years, the weather, & my old, stiff, slow horse, with a

better—he gives up for the present his European tour, but is coming here soon for a week—As I close, my

Vermont Christmas Afternoon My Dear Brother I thank you with all my heart you are so kind I dont don't

Rose one of my near neighbors just, now, came to the window and wants me to come in, to see her Chrs

jibs appear in the offing—steamers with pennants of smoke— and under the noonday forenoon sun Where my

Where my gaze as now sweeps ocean river and bay.

I have just sent off the copy for my new vol volume : think I shall stick to "Signs & Seasons" for the

He wanted my opinion about the argument of the essay, so I told him that I never felt like quarreling

to you—to give you any notion of the good you have done me & again I think I speak for hundreds of my

and I1886 or 1887prose22 leaveshandwritten; A late-stage draft, with printer's notes, of the essay My

My Book and I

OV 2Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), Manuscript draftloc.05454xxx.00459Good-Bye My Fancyabout 1891poetryhandwrittentypedprinted78

78 pages of text numbered by Whitman, and is housed along with other materials related to Good-Bye My

, Lingering Last Drops, Good-bye My Fancy, On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!

s Purport (which includes three poems originally composed separately, My task, Death dogs my steps, and

Good-Bye My Fancy

OV 2Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), Manuscript draftloc.05452xxx.00459Good-Bye My Fancyabout 1891poetryprosehandwrittenprintedabout

10 leaves; Manuscript and corrected print material that was included in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

Good-Bye My Fancy

1891poetryhandwritten1 leaf28 x 22 cm; Manuscripts of the following four poems, written neatly with slight corrections: My

task, L of G's Purport, Death dogs my steps, and For us two, reader dear.

My Task

s Purport (only two lines of the twelve-line poem of the same title first published in 1891), My task

two or three days—so on: we were quite thick then: thick: when I had money it was as freely Bill's as my

two or three days—so on: we were quite thick then: thick: when I had money it was as freely Bill's as my

My Dear Friend: I get a few good letters on my little essay on the poets.

Monday p m All ab't about the same with me—I took dinner with the Scovel family Sunday & a ride with my

W W My Dear Friend: I get a few good letters on my little essay on the poets.

I look round the circle of my acquaintance for her equal.

I shall always esteem it a privilege to have borne my small share in testifying the respect & gratitude

My wife & children are away at Ventnor (Isle of Wight), as the London winter threatened to be too much

for my wife's delicate chest.

January 6 '86 My dear friend I am sitting here in my little front room down stairs writing this—a good

Dear Whitman, This note is written beforehand, in expectation of my paying-in tomorrow at a Post-Office

the ￡33.16.6. wh. which I named to you in my recent letter.

The postal order, on my obtaining it, will be enclosed herein, & dispatched to you.

Since the date of my last something further has come in: it will be accounted for at a future opportunity

On 13 Jany I expect to leave London, & stay some four weeks with my family at the Clarendon Hotel, Ventnor

written you long before, as well as after, but have been in a wretched condition with the "misery in my

I don't improve in my back and legs as rapidly as I ought, and am nearly as lame and heavy as you are

I got a copy of Kennedy's pamphlet from him, and but for my bad condition would have written to him,

Often as I have read it, I can't keep the tears out of my eyes."

White, even at my expense! Reason, Shakespearean hostility to the subject. This is a pretty note!

eye-works have resumed operations pretty nearly same as before—I see out of both now & a great blessing in my

getting along comfortably—the weather has been bad as can be & the traveling ditto, for three weeks past, my

last half-annual return of royalties for both my books just —$20.71cts —the death of Mrs.

she had the finest & perfectest nature I ever met—Glad to hear ab't about the Channing's —Give them my

love—I am scribbling in my little front room down stairs—the parrot has been squalling & the canary