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Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 7 May 1891

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

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 26 June 1891

  • Date: June 26, 1891
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

I am pretty busy putting things in shape for my two months absence. Weather & grounds perfect here.

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, 18 March 1883

  • Date: March 18, 1883
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

Asylum for the Insane, London, 18th March 188 3 My dear Walt I return you today the proof in pages I

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 9 May 1883

  • Date: May 9, 1883
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

Asylum for the Insane, London, 9th May 188 3 My dear Walt I returned home last evening and found plate

I am up to my eyes in work R M Bucke Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 9 May 1883

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 20 March 1883

  • Date: March 20, 1883
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

Asylum for the Insane, London, 20th March 188 3 My dear Walt I have this afternoon received, read, and

You left out my remarks on "Children of Adam", I believe they were good but I acquiesce—your additions

But still, for the Lord's sake, spare my ch iii pt ii as much as possible.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 28 May 1883

  • Date: May 28, 1883
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

Asylum for the Insane, London, 28th May 188 3 My dear Walt I have had the book a couple of days and have

credit than the Author —I am really surprised at the tact and judgement you have displayed in putting my

I suppose McKay will send me a statement (all in good time) showing my financial position as toward the

Annotations Text:

Bucke's WW done at last,—all bound & ready—seems to look very well—to-day I enter on my sixty-fifth year

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 2 June 1883

  • Date: June 2, 1883
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

you can particularly the adverse ones —You do not say anything about sending copies as I asked you in my

I take it for granted meantime that you will attend to this—and also that you will have balance of 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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 19 January 1880

  • Date: January 19, 1880
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

Asylum for the Insane, London, Jan January 19 th 18 80 My dear Walt I am going to ask a great favor of

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

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1883
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

I spend my evenings altogether at the hospitals— my days often.

He is of my own party; and my politicshave been from my youth essentiallythe same ashis own.

Who 1,arns my Lesson complete.

My hands, my limbs grow nerveless.

The lecture closed with the recitation by the author of his grandly pathetic ' lament, O Captain, my

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

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