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My dear Walt You will be glad to hear that I am going to republish some of mothers essays; giving some
present thinking over her life is the only thing that I take pleasure in: indeed I am unable to get my
Giddy is fairly well and so is my brother Percy, his wife and chubby boy (Alexander G.)
I am getting back to my painting again and feel a little bit more together, but not much: never did son
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
have been 2 weeks in a fever of parturition & have gone over all the notes writings, & literature of my
past life in relentless search for material to enrich the book on my hero.
Please don't tell anyone of my project yet— wd would you?
But my chief object is to propagandize.
My Puritan training as a Calvinistic ministers son hindered it for a long time.
328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey U S America Feb: February 11 '86 My dear K C I send you the two Volumes
delighted to have been the means of giving to future generations a portrait of you that is certainly one of my
328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey U S America March 20 1886 My dear Ernest Rhys Thank you for the little
the same as of late years—Keep up pretty good spirits & buoyancy—that makes the best of it all—Give my
If my accumulation of shoes—my cast-off shoes—like wine and Old Daubs were increased in value by cobwebs
Vault Company in the land boasted a receptacle wide and deep and strong enough to house and protect my
My only sorrow at this moment is in that: its the last drink in the bottle and two blocks to where my
But first of all in its protestations of undying love—which, even to the remotest corners of my heart
It will be my first appearance in this Annual.
Wonders will never cease, and after all Houghton consented to publish my little work "Hamlet's Note-Book
My dear Mr. Whitman: Allow me to introduce to your acquaintance, my young friend, Mr. E. H.
I remember with great pleasure my visit to you last March, when I was on my way home from Johns Hopkins
I am, my dear Sir, Very truly yours.
328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey March 26 1886 Dear Sir Yours of 26th rec'd—I send my heartiest thanks
st—Camden — March 26 Am ab't the same as usual—Had a bad spell two weeks ago, but am now around after my
the same (a letting down a little peg, if no more, every time)—Yes I have had superb treatment from my
March 30 1886 My dear Sir: I have sent through my publishers a vol. volume of my essays on Poetry & Poets
I hope you may have seen & cared for some of my own work in poetry.
knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my
own And I know that the Spirit of God is the brother of my own And that all the men ever born are also
my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers And that a kelson of the creation is love." . . . .
Only my brother is now upon the old farm.
I have to go back there at least twice a year to ease my pain.
my heart has always been!
To-day is my birth-day, too, I am 49 today. I hope spring finds you better.
My book "Signs & Seasons" will be out this month.
delighted to have been the means of giving to future generations a portrait of you that is certainly one of my
My reading for the last two or three days (limited) of the articles in Century about Kearsarge and Alabama
April 9th 188 6 My dear Walt Whitman I distributed the papers and magazines you sent me to every body
and Talcott Williams are the instigators of it all—(I am receiving great & opportune Kindnesses in my
old days—& this is one of them) — The printed slip on the other side I just cut out of my Phila: Press
January 21 O'Connor reported to Whitman that "the New York publishers have uniformly refused to publish my
White, even at my expense."
328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey April 13 '86 My Dear Prof: Carson Yours rec'd recieved —The copy
to have seen you—I am ab't about the same in health &c—(nothing at all to brag of)—I read publicly my
April 15. 1886 My dear Mr.
Furness 50 J B Lippincott Co. 25 175 and my own check for one hundred & twenty-nine, (129) dollars, in
328 Mickle Street April 16 '86 My dear T.W., yours with the $304 safely rec'd received by me this afternoon
Camden New Jersey April 17—noon— I have rec'd the Indexes— thanks—I send you a paper—I read my Death
After the lecture Whitman read "O Captain! My Captain!"
half-way to England—I have rec'd John Burroughs' new book —warm sunny day here—I am going out with my
Belmont Mass April 19. '86 My Dear Poet: Your postal rec'd. received I have completed (rough finish)
my seven chapters on you.
It is the most scholarly, fiery, and heavy-artillery piece of work I have yet done; took all my strength
I have got in my cellar, Walt, about 50 bottles of elderberry cordial—fine, smacky, made by myself last
My grand poet, my friend Yours as ever W.S. Kennedy How's the pony? Paper also!! good!
I am much the same as of late—made out very handsomely with my lecture April 15th—$674—have seen Gilder
sending the book to Whitman on April 3, Burroughs commented: "I do not think much of it—the poorest of my
My dear Sir: I recd received your favor of April 13th and the book, which I'm delighted to have.
Pardon my delay in acknowledging, due to illness.
—Glad to hear from you, & would send you my writings, gladly.
going for two weeks to write special letters of thanks &c to you & T D for your kindness & labors in my
to write special letters of thanks &c. to you & T[alcott] W[illiams] for your kindness & labors in my
am still here & nothing very new or different—I suppose you rec'd the Press with a brief report of my
Lincoln lecture in Phila: April 15—I go out every day with my mare & rig—sometimes to Phila.
I have now told my publisher to send another copy to your correct address.
I formerly sent you some of my poetry, but it was early work.
My debt to you is great. Would that I could express it in person!
I'll send a copy too of my last book, "Songs of the Heights & Deeps" see notes June 28 1888 Roden Noel
I am prompted to take this liberty by a sense of my indebtedness to you, and I feel sure that you will
It is one of the desires of my life to look upon your venerable face in the flesh, and to be taken by
the hand of my loving Comrade; and I am not without the hope of one day being thus honoured by him who
has done so much to enrich my life and to rescue my Soul from its quagmire of Doubt and Despondency.
photograph & letter—but the book has not yet reach'd reached me—Yes, indeed, I consider you one of my
I have already begun it—I am as well as usual with me—up, and at my window, as now—get out with the horse
& wagon every afternoon but shall not to-day—nothing new in my affairs—get along quite comfortably—have
day—I wish I could have you here to eat a bite of dinner with me, & chat for the afternoon—Several of my
On May 25, 1886, O'Connor sent the powder for Whitman's constipation, and reported, "My special trouble
gift—for your letter with the £45 which has just reached me— We have fine weather here, & I am enjoying it—My
328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey U S America May 30 1886 My dear friend Yours of May 17, enclosing
which I indeed, indeed thank you, and all—We have beautiful sunshiny weather here, & I am sitting by my
I send best respects & love to my British contributor-friends—they have done me more good than they think
greeting to you, & to Mr C —also to Dr Bucke Best love to your father, mother & Logan I to-day enter on my
My health is nearly as usual—Slowly declining— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Elisa Seaman Leggett, 8 June
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
June 11, 1886 My dear Walt Whitman: Some weeks after I had made my last remittance to you I received
My publisher has only sent me $80 as profits on my books for over a year.
But my friends everywhere are remembering me.
It would not be the truth to say that my only friends are in England.
My spirits are buoyant and my health fair: I am indeed content."
I am compelled to admit that my Western experiences are behind all of my life work.
Dear Sir Trusting that the intelligence conveyed will plead for my presumption, I venture to enclose
My dear Madam Kindly send apace—address as asked for on Enclosed sheet.
328 Mickle street Camden June 16 '86 My dear friend Enclosed I send my piece in Thorndike Rice's just
My Dear Whitman,— Don't you thik think it would be well for you to give me a line to Prof.
Dowden, telling him that you have read the bibliography of my forthcoming book, and that you think you
I am afraid they will be but dilatory in taking hold of the matter on my request alone,.
For my part, I dislike to ask anyone for to serve as go-between, but you seemed to think it would be
My roses are superb; have pitched a tent in my yard. Aff. Affectionately W. S. Kennedy.
New York, June 14th 188 6 Walt Whitman Esq Trusting that the intelligence conveyed will plead for my
Robert Browning (1812–1889), known for his dramatic monologues, including "Porphyria's Lover" and "My
from 328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey U S America June 20 1886 My dear Sir I write a line to introduce
Kennedy again lauded his book ("Walt Whitman, the Poet of Humanity"): "I have completed (rough finish) my
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
there any situation in the Press establishment, (counting-room or writing staff,) that could serve for my
notes about Whitman's activities, and on December 27 he asked Richard Maurice Bucke whether he wanted "my
I am not at all afraid of my handwriting appearing on the printer's copy— Walt Whitman to William Sloane