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AS I PONDER'D IN SILENCE. 1 AS I ponder'd in silence, Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering

then I answer'd, I too, haughty Shade, also sing war—and a longer and greater one than any, Waged in my

AS I ponder'd in silence, Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long, A Phantom arose before

then I answered, I too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any, Waged in my

or a girl with me, I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours only nor left my

body mine only, You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass, you take of my beard

These snowy hairs, my feeble arm, my frozen feet, For them thy faith, thy rule I take, and grave it to

or a girl with me, I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become not yours only nor left my

body mine only, You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass, you take of my beard

As I ponder'd in silence, Returning upon my poems, considering, lingering long, A Phantom arose before

then I answer'd, I too haughty Shade also sing war, and a longer and greater one than any, Waged in my

Johnstons (in 10th street)—his jewelry store is at 150 Bowery, cor Broome—call & see him—quite a lull in my

book selling, & in my affairs, & literary doings, generally— W W The following are responsible for particular

A-1127 328 Mickle Street Camden Dec. 14 '84 My dear friend Upon the whole I shall have to beg off from

Give my friendliest greetings & wishes to Miss Terry & Mr Irving—Should they, or either, feel any day—say

My vacation is nearly done, & in four or five days more I shall be back in Washington.

here in Providence—I have been with him a good deal—he is not very well, but goes around—Will finish my

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.

by it badly—feel it to-day worse than yet—have had a few mouthfuls of dinner, & am sitting here in my

your letter & O'C[onnor]'s to you —H[erbert] G[ilchrist] is here painting, & Morse sculping—I enclose my

I go straight to my subject. Do not call me an autograph fiend.

your leisure, write me out on good paper, one side only, so that I may frame it with your portrait for my

My eye is now under battery treatment (assault-and-battery treatment, you would think to look at it!)

and just as soon as I can recover my sight a little better, I will plunge into the volume, which now

I have had quite a spell of it—been in bed and in my room since 10 th say 17. days—a long sick spell

My work has fallen behind at the office (tho Beemer has done first rate while I was sick) shall have

had time to rite to you untill now & I have not got much time now the toe is most all healed up but my

foot is swelled so that I can not get my boot on it swelled from walking from the depot out her but

But I must tell you the news which is the cause of my writing For, this bright beautiful day gave birth

I am still engaged in perfecting my invention by repeated experiments.

C Studio 21 Pearl St Sept. 8. 91 My dearly esteemed Brother and most reliable Friend— Han rec' d your

Heyde Have paid my taxes, this year—an assessment for water pipe of 15 dollars is yet unpaid.

Nov. 24, 1891 My Dear Whitman: I take the liberty of sending you a barrel of potatoes and some cider,

it seeming to be the best way I know of expressing my feelings these Thanksgiving times, although in

I am writing in my office. I can just see to write without the gas and that is all.

Nearly every one at my house is more or less sick—some of them pretty bad (but nothing dangerous so far

Rudolf Schmidt, Dear Sir & Friend, Your magazine with the article on my book has safely reached me—&

I will write to you thence more fully, & hope to continue having letters from you—My address will be

I send you a paper same mail with this, containing a little piece that describes my case.

I have not forgotten you, my loving soldier boy, & never shall. Walt Whitman 322 Stevens st.

My dear friend, I write mainly to see whether I have got the right address—to find whether this reaches

My health has been good—& I have got through the hot weather all right—It is a long while since I have

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.

I feel, however, unable to withhold my tribute–feeble as it is and I can only pray you to forgive my

U S A Down here again spending a few days—nothing very different—pretty much the same story of all my

Philadelphia to-day for store goods—Do you know of David Bogue, bookseller, Trafalgar Sq: Square who publishes my

My opinion that the book is a success (in the most important requisites) is to-day more decided than

Did you see my article in Critic of Nov. 24?

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

Then my realities; What else is so real as mine?

done and gone, we remain; There is no final reliance but upon us; Democracy rests finally upon us, (I, my

sister —think ab't about it all—very quiet here the last two days—few visitors & then I send excuses—eat my

meals fairly—just had a good little broil'd broiled mutton chop for my supper (Still eat no dinner)—

In my interview with a gentleman connected with the New York Times, I gave an outline of my observations

Whether his version of my conversation was accurate in all other particulars, I cannot at this moment

My dear sir,I fear that the Passage to India is a poem too long and too abstract for the hasty and the

My dear Whitman,The Voice of the Rain does not tempt me, and I return it herewith with thanks.Yours ever

My dear Sir:I greatly regret being unable to avail myself of the Poems November Boughs which you so kindly

"I expect to get there; but there are 9 days yet, and I am not prepared to say I may not get one of my

He not only tells me to "keep the Thoreau book—it is yours," but, today—on my commenting upon a big 1871

portrait on the table, said—"I have not many but you must take that one," signing my name to it at the

"I am improved, I think—so to call it—but my improvements as a rule are not very radical."

when I was a young man—I knew a man in New York named Holt: a curious, interesting man who excited my

He had come from Cold Spring, Long Island—where, by the way, my mother might be said to have come from

Wished my revisions tomorrow. Promised. Explained this to W.

Further: "Then all my letters—notes—have gone to no purpose!

When I came in W. was working on a sketch of "Good-Bye My Fancy!"—laying it out.

The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections, They scorn the best I can do to relate

What is nearest and commonest and nearest and cheapest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances,

myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to receive my

WITH ANTECEDENTS. 1 WITH antecedents; With my fathers and mothers, and the accumulations of past ages

to-day and America could no-how be better than they are. 3 In the name of These States, and in your and my

name, the Past, And in the name of These States, and in your and my name, the Present time.

Let me have my own way, Let others promulge the laws, I will make no account of the laws, Let others

I call to the world to distrust the accounts of my friends, but listen to my enemies, as I myself do,

WITH ANTECEDENTS. 1 WITH antecedents, With my fathers and mothers and the accumulations of past ages,

to-day and America could no-how be better than they are. 3 In the name of these States and in your and my

name, the Past, And in the name of these States and in your and my name, the Present time.

WITH antecedents, With my fathers and mothers, and the accumulations of past ages, With all which, had

In the name of These States, and in your and my name, the Past, And in the name of These States, and

in your and my name, the Present time.

Let me have my own way, Let others promulge the laws, I will make no account of the laws, Let others

I call to the world to distrust the accounts of my friends, but listen to my enemies, as I myself do,

WITH ANTECEDENTS. 1 WITH antecedents, With my fathers and mothers and the accumulations of past ages,

to-day and America could no-how be better than they are. 3 In the name of these States and in your and my

name, the Past, And in the name of these States and in your and my name, the Present time.

Brooklyn 8 July 1868 July th 8th My dear Walt i have received your letter to day wensday Wednesday dident

any change in your place but we must take things as they come no more this time walter Walter dear) my

hand is letter lame that the letter is wrote quite bad give my love to an mrs Mrs. oconor O'Connor and

Walt Whitman was proud of Dutch ancestry on his mother's side: "I may say I revel, even gloat, over my

It tickles my diaphragm to see you run huge subsoil prairie plough so deep down under the feet of the

My heart, at least, swells with gladness & pride on account of honors this winter.

I can't for my poor self at any rate.

Jim is dissatisfied unless I write pretty often, whether there is any thing to write about or not—My

to heal so that he can sit up, & then gradually move about, & so in due time be able to travel— So, my

friend, farewell for present, & I pray that God may be with you, & though we are strangers I send my

21 April 1873 monday Monday My ever dear walt Walt i thought i would write to you to day as i dident

the best and the largest sometime i feel bad enoughf enough if i was younger i should show some of my

getting along if you think you cant can't get a house for us to live in worry about me i shall live my

words "dignity" and "now" Louisa Van Velsor Whitman canceled the phrase "it would bee all good to have my

I am so grateful to thee for seeing him—I suppose it was my letter he presented?

He has been a very intimate friend of my husband's since their College days, but I do not know him very

I have an accumulation of 20 letters to write today—so I must make my first one short.

will write you a few lines as I sit here, on a clump of sand by the sea shore—having some paper in my

splendid swim & souse in the surf—the waves are slowly rolling in, with a hoarse roar that is music to my

send it, as I can get along otherwise — I am doing very well, both in health & business prospects here—my

I send you my love—& to Charley the same—Mention how Charley's young one is getting along— I will now

bid you good bye for this time, my loving friend, & God bless you, dear comrade, & keep you all right

I will write a line to No. 6, & will speak to the other boys in my next.

will get the money to morrow) i am pretty smart i am troubled at times with a dissiness dizziness in my

get 8 dollar per day but its put the house question down i have got a letter from han i told you in my

box was sent i would let her know so the day before the box went i got lou to write a few lines as my

feel in health these days, dear mother—I hope you are well & in good heart yet—I remain pretty well, my

saw him this morning—I am still around among wounded same, but will not make you feel blue by filling my

neglected again to send him word—I have not heard from home now in some days—I am going to put up a lot of my