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I got too the paper with translation from my essay, for which I owe the editor & translator deep thanks

Bucke about my lecture.

is progressing well, though the necessity of taking pupils which I am under now costs a good deal of my

The essay alluded to is probably Whitman's "A Backward Glance on My Own Road" in the January 5, 1884

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

acknowledges Whitman's influence in the following statements: "I find it difficult to imagine what my

'Leaves of Grass' 'filtered and filtered' my blood; but I do not think I ever tried to imitate it or

April 5 th . 28 Terrassen Ufer Dresden My dear Master I have to tell you that the plan of the translations

I have begun working at my translation with a German friend who is fully competent to help & has holidays

I shan't let my own name appear, lest the fact of my being a foreigner might prejudice people against

My Dear Walt.

All of us well—especially my two little boys, who enjoy the country life very much.

My friend Standish O'Grady asks me to address a letter to you.

Take, with his, my words of sympathy in your late heavy trial, & of unalterable homage & love.

Wicklow My dear Walt I have to tell you that towards the end of December I sent back to the German publisher

Democracy To a Boy of the West Doubt of Appearances Give me the Sun To one about to die (KK) That Shadow My

Who Learns my Lesson complete What am I— Square Deific. O Poverty, wincings—.

My dear Walt The enclosed will interest you—From all accounts the reception of book here is very satisfactory

We are here for my wifes health, which I am glad to say is much improved. Ever yours T. W.

My dear Walt— I got your second letter yesterday, forwarded here from Dresden.

I have mentioned it in my preface.

I sent with my M.S. manuscript a copy of Freiligrath's article, & did all I could to secure a favourable

But I think I can rely on my father's helping me to the extent needed.

He & my mother are greatly delighted with the two grandchildren we have brought them home.

his January 16, 1872 letter to Rudolf Schmidt, Whitman wrote that Freiligrath "translates & commends my

My essay has not much translation in it, but I think of appending a complete transl. translation of some

My dear Walt The enclosed will interest you.

We are here for my wifes health, which I am glad to say is much improved. Ever yours T. W.

My dear friend and master— I am at last able to send you the lecture, which I have now got published

I have appended to my lecture a transl. translation of the Song of the Answerer, & in getting this translation

astonished at the amount of discussion it gave rise to, between myself & a German friend who looked over my

I had hoped great things from Gladstone's government, but that accursed Egyptian war opened my eyes finally

And yet I did not always see my way to these views myself.

Dresden My Dear Walt— I write to tell you how things are going now about the translation, &c.

First I translated all I am going to give as well as I could out of my own unassisted resources and handed

over the M.S. manuscript to my colleague.

my preface to the work and Freiligrath's article from the Allg.

My address then will be Glasshouse, Shinrone, Ireland. This indeed is always sure to find me.

his January 16, 1872 letter to Rudolf Schmidt, Whitman wrote that Freiligrath "translates & commends my

couple of months afterwards I heard that she had never received any answer, & after some time I wrote to my

I cannot let this occasion pass without renewing my thanks, sending you again my greeting and love.

I have joined hands with you in it, tried to realize its ideals in my life; and to lead others to do

The date below your photograph in the Two Rivulets had caught my eye that morning—and after some pondering

I have left Ireland and pitched my tent temporarily (that is for a few years) in Germany, a sojourn which

But of course my impression may be, probably is, utterly wrong: how could it be more than a random guess

It has three or four poems not in my old copy, but I heard of a poem beginning—"Thou who hast slept all

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

substantial volume—not that I am overwhelmed or even entirely satisfied by it, but as I had not put my

Coan's letter books sent $10 due from Century Club THE CENTURY 109 EAST 15TH STREET November 22 d 1880 My

These highly prized volumes of yours, and mine, became the latter by subscription, through my dear dead

"Democratic Vistas" since the books came, and am impelled to say to you that I rejoice greatly that my

Entering upon the New Year, let me then, my dear Walt Whitman, send you warm greeting from the Tropic

excellent companionship made my Kluge tenure one of the most generative times of my creative life.

reader, and my most fiery critic.

to my barestript heart, And reached till you felt my beard, and reached till you held my feet. 142 Whitman

I had to give up my health for it—my body— the vitality of my physical self. . . . What did I get?

O my soldiers twain! O my veterans, passing to burial! 80 What I have I also give you.

by Henry Ulke and Brothers, 1871 Whitman spoke of people's reaction to this photo, "Some of them say my

O'Connor called it my sea-captain face.

last yawp, which (the review) you were frank enough to print in your last issue, emboldens me to speak my

Last Winter I got on skates, my first appearance before an icy audience for fifteen years.

U. is the poet of my concern, her suggestion to that effect was a strong point in favor of Mr.

s fondness for poetry doesn't at all interfere with the clearness of my café noir, the lightness of my

with my lordly prerogative.

The Morton C Portsmouth, O., J Walt Whitman Esq My Dear Sir Please send me your autograph on enclosed

came to me saying, "You think so much as Uncle Walt does, you ought to know him" and she placed in my

I read them, and I have reread many times since, the vital words that record the history of my own soul

would be greatly pleased to place your autograph among those of some grand poets, such as I have among my

volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My

O wild and loose to my soul—O wonderous singer.

I read not long ago in the Century a line "the vagaries of my life" This troubled me—is the book and

"If you love me, keep my commandments." If you care for me read my book.

I cannot understand much of these things, only of my love and affection this I am sure of.

May I call my self a pupil—Dear old man you are beloved more than you can know this is the best I have

The writer is referring to Whitman's poem, "My 71st Year" which was first published in the Century Illustrated

—THE SUN. 1 O THOU that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers!

onward 10 years Goethe —(reading Carlyle's criticisms on Goethe.) over leaf Here is now, (January 1856) my

railroads— The Mannahatta that's it Mannahatta —the mast‑hemmed—the egg in the nest of the beautiful bays— my

through swamps warm land,—sunny land, the fiery land, the rich‑blooded land, in hot quick‑mettled land, my

Song Always the South, the Dear to me the sunny land, sweet land, the silvery land my land, wild generous

Camden Oct:30 '89—near noon Still cloudy, dark & threatening rain—My sister Lou this forenoon with a

nice chicken & some Graham biscuits—Warren (my nurse, my sailor boy) drove her out in a little wagon

to the cemetery "Evergreen" where my dear mother & Lou's baby children are buried—as she wanted to go

I rubbed my hands in glee after quoting some of the good great fellows (in England & America) who stand

She says, "I saw with my own eyes, his nobility & manners," &c.

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

Sunday Aug: 4 towards noon —Fine & clear & quiet—feeling fair as usual—cut up peaches, an egg, &c: for my

breakfast—am sitting here alone in my big den—bowel action an hour ago—Mr.

—still have my massage soon after 9 pm—still take two meals every day eat but no gt appetite—bowel movement

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

pann'd oysters & coffee for b'kf'st—Arnold is cutting quite a swathe here—he is so genial —he is one of my

Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Friday, September 13, 1889 and Saturday, September 14, 1889: "My

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

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

Camden NJ— 1891 Nov: 12 —Sunny fine Nov. day—have pann'd oysters for my meals—continued bowel stoppage—rise

pay same am't more wh' is certainly 1/3d more (altogether) than square—But I wanted much to collect my

parents' & two or three relatives' dead relics with my own—& this is the result—& I am & think I shall

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

are provided for, or plainly hinted at—to me its best points are its unmistakable atmosphere and with my

I continue in rather a lamentable condition day & night—(rather easier at this moment in my room all

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

"So my friends tell me, but I never met him." "Don't you think, Mr.

James Gray, Bookbinder 16 Spruce st. 4th floor, is the custodian of the sheets of my Leaves of Grass,

I have been tempted to make too much perhaps of my chosen association with our greatest in England this

completed task—3 dramas—that just a faint breath of that larger air that breathes from you has come my

snow storm, quite brisk—well I laid in a cord of oak wood yesterday & am keeping up a good fire—had my

meant in it is (as I have before told you) to make the completed, authenticated (& personal) edition of my

Review Eng. wherein I read the piece by W m Sharp on Amer National Literature —nothing deep —my Bolton

have been speaking and all others whom you may know though I do not, that words fail me to express my

Houghton, Mifflin, 1892), for which Whitman wrote the Preface (which he later included in Good-Bye My

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former sea captain

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

heartier breakfast than usual—The piece last night went off all right—got thro' all without dishonor—feel my

not what they were—presence (self–possession &c) perfect—audience large & very cordial—It is probably my

place, not a show place, is call'd the Aldine —it is or was, (& I think they owned it) by German family my

evn'g, (after four or five days' stoppage)—upon the whole statu quo , if anything easier than lately—my

—had a letter f'm Lezinsky, my California (?

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

Why, Horace, you have no idea of the exuberance of the man: he talks of buying all my books, of buying

Davis, Whitman's housekeeper, who had also taken care of the sea captain and who inherited part of his

If you have time & patience to read my review I should be extremely obliged if you would tell me whether

with regard to the above question, I shall esteem it a great kindness; & in any case I assure you of my

.: My Dear Sir:— I shall not flatter myself that you retain any knowledge or the faintest recollection

—While reading this paragraph, an army (and no small army) of reminiscences were called to my mind, prominent

After my most cordial regards allow me to say that I should feel SO proud to receive your autograph at

My Sister attained quite a reputation about that time as a writer for News-papers under the nom-de-plume

You must excuse m my writing & spelling for I am in a hurry to get off to the park.

let me know how you are I will try & write a little more abou about thing next time I write & send my

exist") wofür ich da bin ("what I am there for") die Frage nach meiner Bestimmung ("the question of my

destiny") wer ich sei ("who I am/may be") was ich tauge ("what I am good for" | "what my worth is")

Surprised to learn that I am in Washington but here I am and will try and give you a few details of my

I want to have it done for my own purposes" (Friday, October 16, 1891).For more information on W.

Sir: Your letter of the 8th instant, requesting to be furnished with a copy of correspondence between my

My publisher has only sent me $80 as profits on my books for over a year.

But my friends everywhere are remembering me.

It would not be the truth to say that my only friends are in England.

My spirits are buoyant and my health fair: I am indeed content."

I am compelled to admit that my Western experiences are behind all of my life work.

since I first bought the "Leaves of Grass" and before that time I had most earnestly proclaimed to all my

Gilchrist has and to write my name also in my copy. I make this request because Mrs.

I learn from her that your health is better and she showed me a card from you which to my great delight