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but I must not wait any longer now, though there is a fog outside & a fog or something of the sort in my

Llwyngwril, a primitive little village, quite away from town- ways & fashions, I stayed for four weeks with my

Having it in my drawer or on the table as I write, it makes me feel as if you yourself had been in the

For my own sake, as well as yours, I wish it were!

thought over it very seriously, besides asking Dr Bucke's opinion about issuing a 2nd Edn at all of my

Dear Sir, Please accept my enclosed check for one hundred dollars.

I am your debtor for the pleasure I derived from reading your poems, last month, on my return voyage

328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey Dec 1 '86 My dear Gilder If entirely convenient have the magazine

[London, Ontario] 4 Dec [188]6 My dear Walt The "After All" parcel came to hand last evening to my great

My dear friend: I have been thinking very often of you lately, and wishing that something might be done

Lovering, the Member of Congress from my district, 6 th Massachusetts, and influential member of committee

This one is devoted to some of your poems and is partly written by me, partly by my friend W. Q.

do not deserve it—Send word to Mr Lovering, or show him this—I thank him deeply— I am living here in my

a hard job to get from one room to the next)—Am occupied in getting ready the copy of a little book—my

Boughs"—the pieces in prose and verse I have thrown out the last four years— Best love to you & to all my

, with check for Twenty Dollars, ($20) (herewith returned) was duly rec'd—Thank you most fervently, my

At present my brain is just mud—I have a heap of letters unanswered.

the stew gravy)—Every thing from you rec'd & welcomed—dull weather, the ground covered with snow—(but my

find in them so much encouragement and hope, and such a great personality, that I write to express my

easier to-day—have eaten a bit of breakfast for the first time in many days—A long cold snow-storm here—My

Herbert was hurt: "You make no allusion to my Book or my little confidences thereon!

In the letter of November 9 he observed: "I am so sorry that I have finished my labour of love, the doing

yesterday —Your letter of Nov. 12 has been read & re-read, & quite gone the rounds—much admired—I send you "My

Tennyson & the new Locksley Hall, &c: —intended for your first page if you wish—ab't the usual length of my

I always have enough to supply my daily wants, thanks to my kind friends at home and abroad, and am in

My friends in Great Britain are very kind, and have on several occasions recollected me in little acts

"Regarding the insinuation of my being in want of the necessaries of life, I will state that I make it

You can see for yourself my present condition. Yes, I will say I am not in want.

My health is reasonably good.

My last visit to Camden was early in October, before I went abroad.

An autograph letter of Walt's was sold in this city last Spring for $80 to my knowledge."

Received from David McKay, 18th December, 1886, One Hundred and Twenty 01 | 100 Dollars, for royalties on my

I find on carefully reading the "Quarterly," that I should greatly qualify my first impression of its

Street Camden New Jersey US America Dec. 21 '86 Thanks for the six copies of your beautiful Edition of my

My own health is pretty good.

It has reduced my weight about 10 per cent. My belly has gone away as if I had been confined.

has had in the past, but I have no more doubt that it is one of the few immortal books than I have of my

Burroughs is referring to "My Book and I," which appeared in the January 1887 issue of the magazine.

There's something back of all that in my history, physiology, accounting for the hole I've got myself

the foot of the hill: it seems as though nothing would stay, however some things might or do delay, my

My dear Walt: I received yr your post-card this week, and frwrd forwarded it to Leonard M.

You make no allusion to my Book or my little confidences thereon: do you care for a copy?

which it underwent various changes in content, title, and position until being joined with Now List to My

I twice questioned my informer before I could believe it."

"He flung it down at my door, as though the fellow meant some injury: an Italian would have handled it

I remember Thoreau saying once, when walking with him in my favourite favorite Brooklyn—"What is there

My friends laugh, and say I am getting Conservative—but I am tired of mock radicalism.'

"Well, honour honor is the subject of my story," —was the commencement of a favourite speech with him

Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher, which was published first in The Cosmopolitan (October 1887) and reprinted in Good-Bye My

Shakspere-Bacon's Cipher, which was published first in The Cosmopolitan (October 1887) and reprinted in Good-Bye My

leafhandwrittenprinted; Clipping, with handwritten revisions, of a passage from A Backward Glance on My

This passage was incorporated into My Book and I, which was first published in the January 1887 issue

It is unclear whether this manuscript was created in the processes that produced My Book and I or if

It reads:328 Mickle StreetCamden New Jersey Sept. 13 Evn’gCox’s photos: came today & I have written my

is a head with hat on, the photo marked No 3—the pictures with the children come out first-rate—Give my

mouldering.When a friend asked about the poem, shortly after its publication, Whitman admitted: “That’s me—that’s my

It reads:328 Mickle StreetCamden New Jersey Sept. 13 Evn’gCox’s photos: came today & I have written my

is a head with hat on, the photo marked No 3—the pictures with the children come out first-rate—Give my

mouldering.When a friend asked about the poem, shortly after its publication, Whitman admitted: “That’s me—that’s my

It reads:328 Mickle StreetCamden New Jersey Sept. 13 Evn’gCox’s photos: came today & I have written my

is a head with hat on, the photo marked No 3—the pictures with the children come out first-rate—Give my

mouldering.When a friend asked about the poem, shortly after its publication, Whitman admitted: “That’s me—that’s my

It reads:328 Mickle StreetCamden New Jersey Sept. 13 Evn’gCox’s photos: came today & I have written my

is a head with hat on, the photo marked No 3—the pictures with the children come out first-rate—Give my

mouldering.When a friend asked about the poem, shortly after its publication, Whitman admitted: “That’s me—that’s my

over, in a very kind & good letter—enclosing some printed slips from paper—one written by you ab't my

is at its height and bitter cold here now, the earth hard and covered with ice and snow, as I sit by my

God bless my British friends assisters—(from the first they have come in when most wanted)— Walt Whitman

Pall Mall Gazette devoted a great deal of space to Whitman in 1887: January 10, excerpts from "My Book

Friday. 12 Well Road Hampstead London England My dear Walt: I send you three pounds ￡3. the sum being

I am getting ready my pictures (2) for the spring Exhibition.

My Book is getting near though not quite through the press: In one of the last chapters, I added, at

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

Dear old man, I the elder old man have received your Article in the Critic, & send you in return my thanks

blowing softlier & warmlier on your good gray head than here, where it is rocking the elms & ilexes of my

Those fellows have one virtue—they always use good paper: and on that I manage to do a good deal of my

gets a chance of seeing him in the seething side of affairs in this great city, but I am going to make my

I should have been glad to die before I had left such a message as my last utterance, the final outcome

But I am disobeying my doctor, who has forbidden long letters for the present.

here, but cold enough outside frozen hard— O why hast thou bleach'd these locks, old Time yet left my

1844, that is about "an aged man" who meets a young man and tells him, "I was like thee, once gay, my

son, — / Sweet pleasure filled my heart," but "conquering time / Hath bleached my locks so gray."

last three or four weeks, & before returning to London tomorrow I should like to tell you something of my

Before beginning about myself, though,— many thanks for the Lippincott's article.— My Book & I , which

North Sea Interlude," and so it was natural that I should go down to the sea-shore a good deal during my

—then, two or three days ago, I went over to Browney Valley, to see my old friends the coal-miners &

Believe this, of yours most affectionately Ernest Rhys After to-day my address is again Sq.

Lovering," Poet Whitman said, "wrote to me about five weeks ago, saying that my Boston friends wished

Lovering, of the Committee on Pensions, who was favorable to the project, and asking my consent.

It was whilst assisting at a surgical operation that I became poisoned throughout my system, after which

I became prostrated by hospital malaria, which finally caused my paralysis."

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey Jan: 25 '87—noon My dear friend Arthur The box (Oranges) has just

different from usual late years, but older, more broken & paralyzed—I have a little old cottage of my

thing take its course—I do not expect the bill to pass—I am ab't as usual—a bodily wreck—did you get "My

Then he quietly chuckled: "But that's not surprising, not exceptional: my schemes never came to anything

friend Yours rec'd & welcomed, as always—I send Vol. of "Specimen Days and Collect," with emendations—My

" by Walt Whitman for title page— making two books — But I leave the thing, (after having expressed my

one made there, if you prefer to have your own as you may—Write me often as you can—I am tied up in my

corner by paralysis, & welcome friends' letters—bad cold raw weather—my bird is singing furiously—I

She is an American, & my best friend— Walt Whitman to Ernest Rhys, 2 February 1887

Room 56 Borden Block, Chicago, Feby 3d 188 7 My dear and honoured Walt Whitman:— It is less than a year

I was attracted by the curious title "Leaves of Grass", opened the book at random, and my eyes met the

In the "Spring Song" and the "Song of the Depths" my orbit responded to the new attracting sun.

Imagine that I have expressed to you my sincere conviction of what I owe.

The essay is my "first effort," at the age of 30.

William was unable to answer, much to his regret, but I did the best I could on my own account.

& comfortable enough, but horribly crippled & banged up—Spirit moved me to write you a line & send my

& comfortable enough, but horribly crippled & banged up—Spirit moved me to write you a line & send my

If I came, I should have to send letters to the papers here, & perhaps lecture too, to pay my way; for

I come to my last halfpenny indeed almost every week, & am getting quite used to the condition at last

Feb. 16th '87 My Dear Walt. This morning I had occasion to call at the house of a Mr.

relics I think may be worth while—for you —Fine sunny weather here to day, & I have been out in it with my

Street Camden New Jersey Feb. 17 '87 Every thing very much the same with me—quite completely disabled in my