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Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 17 May 1891

  • Date: May 17, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

work of starting the meter too is becoming interesting and I am looking forward with much pleasure to my

Annotations Text:

It is postmarked: LONDON | AM | MY 18 | 91 | CANADA; CAMDEN, N.J. | MAY | 19 | 6PM | 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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 6 February 1891

  • Date: February 6, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 2 February 1891

  • Date: February 2, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

finished 3 days and nights in bed yesterday morning—bad cold and facial neuralgia— not sick —and now am at my

Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 7 February 1891

  • Date: February 7, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 28 January 1891

  • Date: January 28, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

My shoulder is all right as far as being comfortable goes but is not good for much to use yet.

Annotations Text:

Monthly rejected four poems that Whitman had submitted ("Old Chants," "Grand Is the Seen," "Death dogs my

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 8 February 1891

  • Date: February 8, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

I find I have it in my catalogue.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 9 February 1891

  • Date: February 9, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

warmish, gloomy weather here for some days now and continues as if it had come to stay—Can hardly read in my

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 14 February 1891

  • Date: February 14, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

At this time, Whitman was planning to include an appendix to his Good-bye My Fancy that would include

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 3 March 1891

  • Date: March 3, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

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.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 24 March 1891

  • Date: March 24, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

cannot see this falling off that they speak of in your poetry—some of your late prose has not been to my

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 22 March 1891

  • Date: March 22, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

been at a meter meeting—all the principal stock holders present—got home about 6 P.M. and found it on my

I cannot undertand you leaving it out—to my mind it is an admirable piece—most valuable.

Annotations Text:

Whitman is referring to a group of thirty-one poems that he would publish as "Good-Bye my Fancy . . .

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

Whitman chose not to include it in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 22 February 1891

  • Date: February 22, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 20 February 1891

  • Date: February 20, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

We who are well and strong can hardly realize what a bad time you must have—my greatest comfort at present

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 25 February 1891

  • Date: February 25, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 1 March 1891

  • Date: March 1, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 6 February 1880

  • Date: February 6, 1880
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 23 March 1880

  • Date: March 23, 1880
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

Asylum for the Insane, London, March 23 d 18 80 My dear Walt The two copies of "Leaves of Grass" came

vols volumes —Do not mail the books to Anderson as I told you on 18 but mail them to —Please answer my

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 18 March 1880

  • Date: March 18, 1880
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

Asylum for the Insane, London, March 18 18 80 My dear Walt I send you today a London paper with a sample

—Please let me know at once if this plan meets your approval Many of my friends have an extraordinary

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 6 November 1891

  • Date: November 6, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 10 November 1891

  • Date: November 10, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 24 January 1891

  • Date: January 24, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

I know you hate the idea of the use of a catheter but, my dear Walt, you will have to come to it and

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 14 November 1891

  • Date: November 14, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 29 October 1891

  • Date: October 29, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 6 March [18]91

  • Date: March 6, [18]91
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 23 July 1891

  • Date: July 23, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 9 June 1886

  • Date: June 9, 1886
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 6 March 1888

  • Date: March 6, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 3 January 1891

  • Date: January 3, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 25 October 1891

  • Date: October 25, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

hour's drive:—quite a long letter from Wallace a couple of days ago (but I think I referred to it in my

Ingersoll (sent it to Horace, perhaps he will show it you) re my Montreal address.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 13 October 1891

  • Date: October 13, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

health—pretty busy, but that does no harm—Inspector is to be here tomorrow or next day—I am about half through my

Annotations Text:

sixty-five poems that had originally appeared in November Boughs (1888); while the second, "Good-Bye my

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 22 October 1891

  • Date: October 22, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

18 91 Beemer is away on holidays, Barber sick in bed—Ross and I have to get along best we can—I gave my

You may judge that I have no idle time on my hands. I have your cards of 18 th & 20 —thanks!

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 17 October 1891

  • Date: October 17, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

Turner had expressed interest in becoming the English publishers of Whitman's last miscellany Good-Bye My

In the end, Reeves and Turner did not publish an edition of Whitman's Good-Bye My Fancy.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 27 October 1891

  • Date: October 27, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 20 December 1891

  • Date: December 20, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

ONTARIO 20 Dec 18 91 Well we are in Christmas week once more: and yesterday (thank goodness) I wound up my

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 8 December 1891

  • Date: December 8, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 24 November 1891

  • Date: November 24, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

sixty-five poems that had originally appeared in November Boughs (1888); while the second, "Good-Bye my

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 11 December 1891

  • Date: December 11, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

Right away after Christmas I shall go to work in ernest earnest at my "Cosmic Consciousness" piece and

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 5 January 1891

  • Date: January 5, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 12 January 1891

  • Date: January 12, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

All most welcome—My arm gets on well, am beginning to sleep pretty well again without any sedative Am

Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 16 September 1891

  • Date: September 16, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

bookshelf, can see it from where I sit—it is very fine—I consider it one of the special treasures of my

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 20 September 1891

  • Date: September 20, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

A review of Whitman's Good-Bye My Fancy was published in The Literary World on September 12, 1891.

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 18 September 1891

  • Date: September 18, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

I sent my book with a note to Lord Tennyson and have other things to send in due course.

Annotations Text:

Bucke if he had seen The Critic of September 5, 1891; the issue included a review of Whitman's Good-Bye My

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 11 September 1891

  • Date: September 11, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

—All is in good shape here and the folk all well—the health of the Asylum has been excellent during my

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 21 November 1891

  • Date: November 21, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

I am in the middle of my lectures to students, have just come from the lecture room where I spoke two

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 3 November 1891

  • Date: November 3, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 17 July [188]8

  • Date: July 17, [188]8
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

About half of my folk are gone and going to Sarnia on a visit—Clare & Ina went yesterday, Mrs B.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 7 December 1890

  • Date: December 7, 1890
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 3 February 1889

  • Date: February 3, 1889
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, [1–2 August 1891]

  • Date: [August 1–2, 1891]
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

written to arrange a meeting—he asks me to stay with him (the people here are very kind if I accepted all my

Here we have had no warm weather—I have worn my over-coat so far all the time.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 3 February 1880

  • Date: February 3, 1880
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

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

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