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Asylum for the Insane, London, Jan January 19 th 18 80 My dear Walt I am going to ask a great favor of
My heart has been very bad for months.
My dear Sir, Yours of 27 January, and Leaves of Grass, received.
I hope that you did not consider my request for your photograph impertinent.
and therefore my allusion to it.
that I did my best—however—perhaps I soared too high—in addressing Barbarians.
I had told Dowden of my not having received any reply to my cards or letters and my apprehension that
My dear Whitman, I am delighted that you liked Miss Phelps's story so well.
England Oct October 1: 1879 My dear Mr.
I have just received a letter from my friend in which he says: "I enclose you my promised Provençal translation
Do, I beg of you, do me the great favor to present them to him, in my name, when next you see him.
If ever I go to America, I assure you that one of my first visits will be to this most sympathetic of
poets, for whose large & lofty nature my admiration is merged into love ."
My dear Mr.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT THE CENTURY MAGAZINE UNION SQUARE NEW YORK Marion, Mass My dear Mr.
My dear Whitman, All the poems you have let me print before are of such a kind that I felt they would
I would be willing to make you an immediate payment of $250.00 on account and will do everything in my
the ashes of the soldiers, whose dearness to him is signified by the repetition of the possessive "my
Only late in life could Whitman acknowledge, "As I get older, and latent traits come out, I see my father's
JohnRietz"My Picture-Gallery" (1880)"My Picture-Gallery" (1880)First published in The American in 1880
and incorporated into Leaves of Grass in 1881, "My Picture-Gallery" is a (revised) six-line excerpt
My Picture-Gallery," which originally served to set up the 115-line catalogue of "Pictures," is a riddle
With the catalogue of "Pictures" excised, the emphasis of "My Picture-Gallery" is shifted away from the
"My Picture-Gallery" (1880)
"She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a
position for the present, I will ask leave to begin these Notes with such hints of the character of my
father and mother and of my own childhood as may at least help "The Fair Pilot of Loch Uribol" one of
my favorite stories WW WALT WHITMAN CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY. 32 Transcribed from our digital image of the
—See my other letter, & address answer Care of Strahan & Co, 34 Paternoster Road.
Robert Browning (1812–1889), known for his dramatic monologues, including "Porphyria's Lover" and "My
My dear friend, I have recd received your postal handshake, and am glad to find that you appreciate my
My second letter naturally turned the tide of contributions in his direction, as I desired, deeming him
You must forgive me for my blunder the price of your books.
living by his pen—and you should certainly never want anything your heart craved; but all I can do in my
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
England October 16 th '90 My dear Sir The only excuse that I can offer for trespassing upon your privacy
your works I am having printed a volume of verses, and as I wish to show—though inadequately I know—my
I am quite aware that my work at its best, can be but an unfitting sequence to your name, but my tribute
Earnestly hoping that you will honor my desire, I remain very faithfully yours, Robt.
400 Fifth Avenue Oct 12. 90 My dear Whitman— On return from Washington last night found your good letter
400, 5th Ave, Dec 12. 91— My dear Mr.
Wall Street Oct 20, 90 My dear Whitman, I recd the printed speech, proposed—think it too short.
reckoning in a little room" — You must take good care of yourself—get in good trim physically, so that my
My dear Whitman, Accept my best thanks for the beautiful copy of "Leaves of Grass."
The title was given to the collection by my friend the publisher.
400 Fifth Avenue June 5, 90 My dear Mr.
Sometime I will pay, so far as may be in my power, a fitting tribute to your character and genius.
He reprinted it in his 1891 bookGood-Bye My Fancy.
Wall Street New York Dec 29th 91 My Dear Whitman, I am glad that you have lived long enough to know that
New York, Feby 6/92 My dear Mr.
Feby 9th 92 My dear Whitman— I am going away to-day—first to Buffalo—then Cleveland—then Chicago—Cincinnati—and
I think of you hundreds of times a day and you are in my heart always.
Mch 24. 92 My dear friend, I was pained to hear that you are sufffering more and more, but was glad to
, free and winged words—words that have thrilled and ennobled the hearts and lives of millions—that my
WASHINGTON, D.C., Mch March 25 18 80 Walt Whitman Esq Esquire My Dear Sir: For years I have been your
I have taken the liberty to send you three small volumes of my own You may not agree with me.
his January 16, 1872 letter to Rudolf Schmidt, Whitman wrote that Freiligrath "translates & commends my
to you—to give you any notion of the good you have done me & again I think I speak for hundreds of my
Philadelphia, 2 Mo. 23 188 3 Walt Whitman Camden NJ My dear friend I claim the privileges of the name
Robert Pearsall Smith Two hundred Shares of the Capital Stock of the Sierra Bella Mining Co standing in my
name on the books of the said Company, and do hereby constitute and appoint Robert Pearsall Smith my
Whitman This certificate of Sierra Grande Mining Stock is to be returned to Robert Pearsall Smith at my
My dear friend, Can you not come over Friday and stay till Monday with me?
My dear Friend — It was with much regret that we felt compelled to leave you in your sickness last week
Our passage across the whole way has been nearly as smooth as a duck pond, and my health has been very
I bear your messages of love and remembrance to your many many friends in London, who without my privileges
Alys, my faithful secretary, joins me in the expression of the hearty affection with which I am always
Fridays Hill, Haslemere Surrey England Aug 13" 1889 My dear friend: Through one & another source we hear
I have full use of my one remaining eye and am in much better health in this much criticised but really
My dear friend Thank you—thank you!
From the condition of my heart death is a daily probability to my conciousness consciousness & I face
all my responsibilities in the sense that it may be for me the last time.
My dear friend, I was glad to hear by your postal that you are getting along without an increase of suffering
My old enemy "melancholia" spreads its vampire wings still over my life and will I presume go with me
Augus 28th 1890 My dear friend, Your letter respecting package of books sent is at hand.
Accept my thanks for your valued gift to myself of your writings.
Nov 14th 1890 My dear friend Thanks for your kind remembrance of me in your note & enclosure.
I have my youth renewed to me in the extreme delight I take in our country home.
I have caught some of the pantheistic feeling of oneness in my spirit with nature & I have not been so
I am anchored here, but it is at best a foreign port—Pennsylvania has been the home of my family for
over 200 years and it is the place of my affections.
Borrowdale, Cressington Park Sep 29 To Walter Whitman, Esq r Sir, To my only Brother, who for nearly
has been a helpless sufferer in Santiago, I am sending a specially prepared Birthday Book: and it is my
very earnest wish to obtain for insertion in my Book the name of your most honored self.
I trust you will graciously pardon my freedom in asking the favour of your sign-manual on enclosed slip
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT THE CENTURY MAGAZINE UNION SQUARE NEW YORK Walt Whitman, Esq., My dear Sir: We are
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
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.
see notes July 5 1888 Maybury Working Station Surrey England Nov 3 1871 My dear sir, I send by this mail
the second part of my study of your works.
And may I again repeat the hope I expressed to you in a former note (when I sent you my own vol. of poems
My wishes are that this may find you enjoying good health and plenty of kind friends to associate with
close by expecting to have a better opportunity of writing some thing else when you hear from me again My
I cross the long Bridge but if I can not get a chance, I hope you will write whenever convient Give my
On March 5, 1875, Farwell, who owned a farm in Michigan, wrote: "Walt my dear old Friend how I would
I hereby acknowledge the receipt of your kind letter of 2 Feb, which has been in my hands for some days
Of course my letter has gone to Washington.
I am closing in these days my article on you—.
If my article on you should appear in any american magazine, I should like to have sent a copy.
Clausen, who Rudolf Schmidt called "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he
Your books and portraits have in the last month circulated amongst the ladies of my acquaintance, for
Never had I thought in my days (during life-time) to get a spirit (or ghost, none of the expressions
signify exactly our stand) for my help—from America.
I thank him and thee from my full heart.
At present you will understand my meaning! Good by.
Clausen, who Rudolf Schmidt called "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he
My first task is to write to you.
sent you myself one copy in loose sheets ( to two of those small parcels) and the editor has during my
My own opinion I wrote you in a letter the last summer. I hope, that you have received it.
With poor Clausen I sent you my picture. If you have not got, then ask it from his widow.
Clausen, who Rudolf Schmidt called "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he
Your answer to my letter from Garsdal I duely duly received.
two weeks ago it took ago a new bridge as easily as I am flowing a feather away with the breath of my