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House inform'd informed me that you accepted, and would publish, my "Bardic Symbols."
About the two lines: (See from my dead lips the ooze exuding at last!
My dear Mr. Taylor, I have received your letter of the 12th.
The friendly pages thereof have given me pleasure, & I wish to proffer you my friendship in response.
328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey April 27 '85 My dear Dr Knortz What is now the status of the Rolleston
(I dont want the book, but just want to see how it is made up, paged & printed)—My health is about as
thank you again, and more specifically, dear E.C., for the help you have so kindly sent me—you and my
I have just had my dinner, (buckwheat cakes, and tea, good).
bitterly— I am somewhat better, & late yesterday afternoon I was taken out & jaunted around for an hour—my
first experience of out door for most a year, & it was very refreshing—then when I came back & up to my
thing is quiet & secluded here—all winter too, the snow white & deep in every direction—as I look from my
window, river & mountains & trees & rocks—far & vast— I only write a hurried line to let you know my
I think, after all, that my former objections to giving the English of the L. of G. with the translation
We go for a month or so into the country soon, and from the time you get this till the end of June my
Camden Dec: 5 '90 My dear JMS I like y'r plan & feel greatly complimented by it & hope it will be carried
I send you herewith the MS of personal article (must not have my name signed) Of course if you print
abolished one of the third class clerkships in the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and upon my
It is, therefore, my duty to inform you that your services will not be required from and after the first
My general strength, however, from fair to middling.
Dont feel to leave my anchorage here, just now—but hope yet to take advantage of your affectionate &
Sunday , March 28 Dear Linton, My note of yesterday, (or day before,) asking for the bill was written
To-day, better, I have just taken up yours to read a second time, (as I generally do with my friends'
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Feb: 6 '81 My dear J L G I send you the Carlyle piece as requested
forget to mention before (& perhaps is not strictly needed any how) I reserve the right to print any of my
early P M June 26 '91 Hot wave again—am keeping up pretty well—Suppose you rec'd Dr J's facsimile of my
will probably so appear (why so deferr'd doth not appear)—Enc'd y'r introductory to Tennyson —give him my
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.
all—aplomb in the midst of irrational things, Imbued as they—passive, receptive, silent as they, Finding my
woods, or of any farm- life of These States, or of the coast, or the lakes, or Kanada, Me, wherever my
It was putting my own feeling into words. Seemed to sum him up!"
W. then: "Take my advice: shut up!"
I hope, therefore, my paragraphing may be permitted by the benignant printer.
I was horrified to learn that my footnote about Lowell was set as per copy.
I am rummaging my memory for an epigraph for the appendix, as you requested.
Sir: In answer to your letter of the 8th instant, I have the honor to state that my recollection of what
But my impressions were, and still are, (subject, of course, to be reversed, if they appear incorrect
My opinion against the validity of the transfer of the rights of the Oregon Center Railroad Company,
Sarrazin is made in one place to say my father was a great lover of infants.
John Burroughs always beautifully said my father was a lover of children—and that is right—children is
Speaks in warm terms of my Liberty piece on O'Connor. W. very susceptible to cold.
Then he took up paper again and read the sentence—"To my notion 'The Kreutzer Sonata,' without for a
my friends, we must not forget that a little license is the very salt of liberty!'
Would he object to my making public statement of the new addition to "Leaves of Grass"?
Friday, December 5, 1890Left Philadelphia in 5 P.M. train—no baggage but my umbrella, a comb, a toothbrush
No one up there but girl who directed me to my room. Did not see Johnston at once.
But by and by, as I sat in the room reading, he appeared in undress at the door between my room and another—coming
Louis, Nov 9th 1886 My dear Walt Two or three times within the last half dozen days we have seen (and
As good luck would have it we have had a splendid fall as regards weather—and too my work has been of
short time) this does occur, and of course she gives way to her feelings, poor child, but I am doing my
Milburn, or any of the railroad boys, or other friends that may inquire after me, that I send them my
best respects—not forgetting my friends Mr. & Mrs.
every thing lovely—It will not be long now before I shall be back—Till then, take care of yourself, my
My health keeps good, & work easy.
I often think of you, my loving boy, and think whether you are all right & in good health, & working
As I told you in my previous letter, this city is quite small potatoes after living in New York.
Brooklyn 22nd Sept. 1863 Dear brother Walt, The enclosed $25 is from my old friend Joseph P.
I have written him in some of my letters what you were doing, with short extracts from your letters.
The whole thing in my opinion is one of the biggest of humbugs.
New York March 21st Your letter in answer to my note came to hand this a.m.
Chelsea Ferry, & enquire for, Charley Hollis, or Ed Morgan mention my name, and introduce yourself as
my friend.— I am obliged to you for your kind offer of sending me a few of the sheets in advance of
I immediately appealed to my lady friends and patriots in Philadelphia, and they have sent me on a fine
I have never had better health in my life, perhaps I can explain it to you.
My regards to them and hope they are out of Campbell Hospital. What became of poor Dick?
Vermont Christmas Afternoon My Dear Brother I thank you with all my heart you are so kind I dont don't
Rose one of my near neighbors just, now, came to the window and wants me to come in, to see her Chrs
August 31, 1888 My dear Walt: I got your letter of the 6th, a postal card of the 11th, divers newspapers
I have had it on my mind for a month to write, but have had a bad time.
My hope and heart are high for you. If the weather will only let up! Good bye.
you, but I have a bad habit of putting off things—as you know, & week after week slips by & accuses my
This remissness is very much of a part with the rest of my story of late.
Opposite my window the birds kick up a great row in the branches, as they discuss the delicate question
once or twice, you find it is nothing to be afraid of— I have been busy all the forenoon fixing one of my
Y New York paper, the Critic —they give me $10 a piece for them, & want several more—I make use of my
time this reaches you—It is now noon & I must get out a bit —I went out & took a short stroll, but my
April 1891 My dear Walt Whitman, My best thanks to you for your kind postcard of March 23 rd .
Will you give my affectionate regards to Traubel? James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 3 April 1891
Lancashire, England. 14 August 1891 My dear Walt Whitman, It is too late for me to write much tonight
My prayer is that it may bear fruit in our lives. But I am too sleepy to write any more now.
With my heart's best love to you, & constant good wishes Yours affectionately J. W. Wallace.
Quite enjoyed my dissipation, & feel no worse for it!
Have now pretty well settled as to my next move.
My old friend Fred Wild went out there when a youth of 20 & stayed there some months.
My Dearest Friend: Your welcome letter to hand.
Indeed all that sympathy and warm & true words of love & sorrow & highest admiration & esteem for my
Please give my love to your sister, and tell her that her good letter spoke the right words to me & that
1870 Janry January 19 My dear walt Walt i am like you this week i dont don't seem to have any thing new
worst of it was they had two dogs and before they could get them away i thought they would have torn my
a stir about the small pox ordering every one to be vasinated vaccinated ) well walter Walter dear my
Walter it is so strange you hav e not got my letter I sent one last friday Friday morning and should
and have had all you have sent and come very acceptable I had got down to 10 cents you must have got my
told him I had hired so much of the house out he would have to hire his board write Walt if you got my
institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my
I suppose look ab't about the same—(perhaps grayer & redder)—though young enough in spirit & now in my
My two books bring me in a moderate income —I am satisfied with very plain living—& bless the Lord I
am likely to have enough for that as long as I need— Tom, give my best regards to your wife, for all
but very sorry to hear of your loss of health & bereavement this liaves leaves me and family all well my
through the winter and have not quite caught up yet I have got a little Buisness Business out side of my
Do you remember meeting a yong young Lady with me at the corner of Fulton and Court Sts once that is my
77 West Brookline Boston Sept 3 1888 My dear loved Poet I greet you with open arms and kiss you lovingly
the three as it gives me your full face—and so good I am going to paint you in oil and in pastel and my
the house where you were born and I hope I may have you as you are in your home at Camden—sometime—my
him—I am to go again—He did not express any opinion particular—said he would tell me next time—examined my
a chicken—your card to Bell & letter to George came this forenoon—George has not yet got home— Lou, my
continues to get along excellently well—We have quite a good many callers —I am not so well to-day—my
III. of my "Walt Whitman."
scientific American point of view—as it certainly is the highest & deepest (complimentary) statement of my
gone—Spirits buoyant & hearty— —The December sun is shining out wistfully as I finish, & I am going out in my
Jersey U S America— Dec: 20 1881 Dear Sir Your letter asking definite endorsement to a translation of my
And as my dearest dream is for an internationality of poems and poets binding the lands of the earth
closer than all treaties or diplomacy—As the purpose beneath the rest in my book is such hearty comradeship
journey— Mother, it is kind of company to write to you—it is very lonesome to sit here all the evening in my
room—about 9 Charles Eldridge comes in & assists me to soak my feet in hot water, & then I turn in—(
I have my trowsers trousers on this evening, first time in 3 weeks)— Friday noon Feb. 14 Mother, I am
I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon, lo!
there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient; I see that the word of my
my city! The city of such women, I am mad to be with them!
now and then in the silence, Alone I had thought, yet soon a troop gathers around me, Some walk by my
side and some behind, and some embrace my arms or neck, They the spirits of dear friends dead or alive
something for tokens, tossing toward whoever is near me, Here, lilac, with a branch of pine, Here, out of my
I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon, lo!
there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient; I see that the word of my
my city! The city of such women, I am mad to be with them!
indifferent, but trembling with age and your unheal'd wounds you mounted the scaffold;) I would sing in my
, and singled you out with attachment;) Nor forget I to sing of the wonder, the ship as she swam up my
bay, Well-shaped and stately the Great Eastern swam up my bay, she was 600 feet long, Her moving swiftly
I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city, and behold!
there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly, musical, self-sufficient, I see that the word of my
my city! The city of such women, I am mad to be with them!
indifferent, but trembling with age and your unheal'd wounds you mounted the scaffold;) I would sing in my
, and singled you out with attachment;) Nor forget I to sing of the wonder, the ship as she swam up my
bay, Well-shaped and stately the Great Eastern swam up my bay, she was 600 feet long, Her moving swiftly
now and then in the silence, Alone I had thought, yet soon a troop gathers around me, Some walk by my
side and some behind, and some embrace my arms or neck, They the spirits of dear friends dead or alive
something for tokens, tossing toward whoever is near me, Here, lilac, with a branch of pine, Here, out of my