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I am trying to get on with my annual report but it moves slowly—however I have time and I shall no doubt

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

Wigston was the author of Francis Bacon, Poet, Prophet, Philosopher, Versus Phantam Captain Shakespeare

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

I am enjoying my visit here and am feeling first class—but I shall not be glad to get back to America

necessary arrangements and we will move Northward as soon as convenient after I get across the water—My

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

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

I would not have put it a cent below $10. if I had had my way.

So you see 'tout va bien" with my collection which bids fair to be one day the envy of millionaires.

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

I do not like to write this way but I think you ought to know my candid opinion.

The 1864 picture you gave me the other day is setting up on the bookshelf at my right hand looking at

My people refused to put up the money without adequate protection."

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.

. [—] I have had quite a time the last few days arranging and posting recent additions to my W. W.

I send you today a piece I wrote for an uncle more than thirty years ago about my old wanderings in the

I promised Horace to send him a copy of my Saguenay poem but please tell him I cannot find one and fear

My Annual Report is out—I have written for some copies and shall send you one as soon as I get them I

Find my folk all well and the asylum in good shape—a lot of work had accumulated which it will take a

immensely valuable and that we shall eventually carry our plans through—the only subject of regret on my

s article) but my copy has not the picture (very bad one by the way) [/] I am a little sorry therefore

ought to have been $10. instead of $6. that would have left margin enough for every thing and it is my

. [—] I send you today a copy of my Annual report, after you have looked it over let Horace have it—I

I am well, getting a good rest since my return home, sleep about 10 hours a night right along.

read some of Brown's books if not all of them. [—] A gloomy but pleasant afternoon here as I sit at my

desk in my office and look out the window, roads very sloppy with the melting snow.

Supt. and my judgement and conscienece still tell me (as they told me all along) that my action has been

We are all well—my arm (shoulder) no longer gives me any pain or much annoyance.

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

My greatest comfort is that from Horace's accounts you seem and look well and that being the case however

Pallid Wreath" was published in the Critic on January 10, 1891; the poem was also reprinted in Good-Bye 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

write as often as I sh d like—but you will be far away wrong if you think there is any other reason for my

My only feeling in the matter is one of intense curiousity.

Give my love to Horace and say to him that I will write him soon.

—My trip is agreeing with me and I am as well and hearty as possible Best love to you R M Bucke P.S.

this moment to hand am well pleased that you seem to keep about the same—no worse I judge anyhow—Give my

My reception here has been such that I am absolutely dumbfounded.

from Johnston to say that Wallace & he would meet me at L. pool if I w d let them know the time of my

You will of course, dear Walt, show this letter to Horace as there is no use my writing it over again

I think I have said all I can say at the present moment—will soon write again I send you my love, dear

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

It connects itself with memories of my mother's like condition—her only companion often a canary too.

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

England 16 Aug. '91 Yesterday came to my hands your card of 2 d inst.

My visit here has been a great success—I have been well received and treated on all hands, I shall feel

richer for it for the rest of my life.

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

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

keep, if not fairly, at least not markedly worse and I hope to find you "right side up with care" on my

But the main thing I want to talk about to you today is my visit yesterday to Lord Tennyson.

a little before 4 P.M. got out, rang the bell—a footman opened the door, I gave him your letter and my

T. is not much for compliments, very blunt and downright—he spoke of you with much good feeling but my

But after all I fear I can give you but a faint notion of the pleasure my visit was to me.

But I have not half examined it yet and must put off for another letter my dicta upon it.

It is postmarked: LONDON | | MY 20 | 91 | CANADA; CAMDEN, N.J. | MAY | 22 | 12 PM | 1891 | REC'D.

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 2d Annex" to Leaves of Grass

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

We loyal Kanucks are keeping the Queen's birthday—my fam all out fishing —3 parties of them—all off—from

my brother 60 yrs old to my youngest 9.

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 2d Annex" to Leaves of Grass

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

I have a armful of lilacs in a big pitcher in front of me on my desk—they are good company With love

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

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

Toronto Thursday last (9 th inst.) intending to stay a week and do a lot of things—but, rather curiously, my

a couple of weeks became much inflamed the same night I went down so that I had to make the best of my

the next day—I have suffered a good deal of pain and loss of sleep with it and am still confined to my

As for myself I am geting on very well—still confined to my room (except that I get out every day for

INSANE ASYLUM LONDON ONTARIO 16 April 1891 Still sitting here in my room upstairs—foot mending —but slowly

Put in my time mostly reading, some writing and chatting.

like the water, like to see England and friends there, it would be the best change I could have for my

INSANE ASYLUM LONDON ONTARIO 14 April 91 Am still here in my big bedroom (across the hall from the one

was good of you to send it me—it is a noble production and raises Wallace even higher than ever in my

My heart has not been up to par this winter (since the upset last fall, the dislocation in Dec. & the

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

Tomorrow I think we shall all go for a 15 mile drive to Delaware—H., Anne, Mrs.B., my boy Maurice, self

"Walt Whitman's Last," an "explanation" of his book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), was published in the August

eternities, the one past and the one to come, and it is a delight to me to feel satisfied, and to feel in my

Houghton, Mifflin, 1891), for which Whitman wrote the Preface (which he later included in Good-Bye My

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

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).

INSANE ASYLUM LONDON ONTARIO 28 July [June] 18 91 Just as I sent off my last note came yours of 24 th

certainly use the note to Tennyson for I want much to see him and to be able to tell you about him on my

Temperature (in my office) 70° sky deep blue, not a cloud, a gentle breeze waving the trees and shrubs

early Spring—fall wheat very good but hay & spring crops mostly short and light I am well and send my

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

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

LONDON ONTARIO 2 May 18 91 Your post card of 29 th came to hand yesterday afternoon and I got it on my

It is postmarked: LONDON | AM | MY 4 | 91 | CANADA.; CAMDEN, N.J. | MAY | 5 | 1 PM | 1891 | REC'D.

INSANE ASYLUM LONDON ONTARIO 11 May 18 91 Well, my dear Walt, I have yours of 8 th inst. and judging

It is postmarked: LONDON | | MY 11 | 91 | CANADA; CAMDEN, N.J. | MAY | 12 | 4 PM | 1891 | REC'D.

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