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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—.
Do you understand my bad English?
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
Sent a paper—slips—& Mem Memoranda Aug 10 '76 Copenhagen 24th of July 1876 My dear Walt Whitman.
I wrote to you in April a forthnight fortnight before my marriage.
If the letter should not have reached you, I hereby tell you, that at the 14th May I married my dear
My thoughts were with on the 4th.
My dear wife is greeting you as a friend.
Immediately after my return from Germany (28 February) I did write to you and sent you a long article
If my thoughts did not weaken and wither, when I try to give them expression in the English language,
something rotten in the state of Denmark, still are true, I have the greatest belief of the vitality of my
peasant on Fijen (one of our fertile isles) wrote to me in the spring for two years ago to thank me for my
Clausen, termed in Schmidt's letter "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he
Copenhagen, August 18, 1875 My dear Walt Whitman.
Society, I pressed him for two years ago (when he had previously sent me some very fine articles for my
But all the striking expressions, all the elaborate work of the thought, is fading away beneath my feather
I am never saying exactly what I would say, and you know, my dear friend, that this is a great pain to
My hope has been frustrated; I am myself a very lonely man without great connecions connections , especially
Therefore my dear friend I can only beg you accept my sincere sympathy with your unfortunate condition
I have myself my considerable lot of difficulties.
In these days I have got a little harbour for my old father and now I am going to marry without fortune
and clinging all my expectations to the incertain uncertain fate of a book, which shall appear in the
My dear Walt Whitman, I write you these lines from a little village two miles from Weimar, where I have
If the language did not impact my fancy and ideas I should have a great deal to tell you.
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
The principals were stripped and eager for the fray, when the unstrategic approach of Captain Shaurman
free-verse poem, "'The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete'" (1891) first appeared in the annex "Good-Bye my
had strong reservations about it, and Whitman later referred to it as "the horrible dismemberment of my
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
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
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
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT THE CENTURY MAGAZINE UNION SQUARE NEW YORK Walt Whitman, Esq., My dear Sir: We are
Southey thus records his own birth:— "My birthday was Friday, 12th August, 1774; the time, half-past
According to my astrological friend Gilbert, it was a few minutes before the half hour, 161 pleasure.
There is an image in Kehama, drawn from my recollection of the devilish malignity which used sometimes
Meantime Madoc sleeps, and my lucre of-gain-compilation (specimens of English Poets) goes on at night
, when I am fairly obliged to lay history aside, because it perplexes me in my dreams.
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
My dear friend, Can you not come over Friday and stay till Monday with me?
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.
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 — 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
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.
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.
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
to you—to give you any notion of the good you have done me & again I think I speak for hundreds of my
his January 16, 1872 letter to Rudolf Schmidt, Whitman wrote that Freiligrath "translates & commends 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.
New York, Feby 6/92 My dear Mr.
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
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.
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
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 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.
Earnestly hoping that you will honor my desire, I remain very faithfully yours, Robt.
Dear Walt Whitman: Pray forgive my long silence. I have been deep in troubles of my own.
I know the purity and righteousness of your meaning, but that does not alter my regret.
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
—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
Long for my soul, hungering gymnastic, I devour'd what the earth gave me; Long I roam'd the woods of
O wild as my heart, and powerful!)
wonder, yet pensive and masterful; All the menacing might of the globe uprisen around me; Yet there with my
; —Long had I walk'd my cities, my country roads, through farms, only half satisfied; One doubt, nauseous
longer wait—I am fully satisfied—I am glutted; I have witness'd the true lightning—I have witness'd my
FATHOMLESS DEEPS. 1 RISE O days from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer sweep, Long for my
O wild as my heart, and powerful!)
you have done me good, My soul prepared in the mountains absorbs your immortal strong nutriment, Long
had I walk'd my cities, my country roads through farms, only half satisfied, One doubt nauseous undulating
like a snake, crawl'd on the ground before me, Continually preceding my steps, turning upon me oft,
Long for my soul, hungering gymnastic, I devour'd what the earth gave me; Long I roam'd the woods of
O wild as my heart, and powerful!)
wonder, yet pensive and masterful; All the menacing might of the globe uprisen around me; Yet there with my
; Long had I walk'd my cities, my country roads, through farms, only half satisfied; One doubt, nauseous
longer wait—I am fully satisfied—I am glutted; I have witness'd the true lighting—I have witness'd my
FATHOMLESS DEEPS. 1 RISE O days from your fathomless deeps, till you loftier, fiercer sweep, Long for my
O wild as my heart, and powerful!)
you have done me good, My soul prepared in the mountains absorbs your immortal strong nutriment, Long
had I walk'd my cities, my country roads through farms, only half satisfied, One doubt nauseous undulating
like a snake, crawl'd on the ground before me, Continually preceding my steps, turning upon me oft,
Travel'd Roads was mostly made up of material from three previously published pieces: A Backward Glance on My
Own Road (1884), How I Made a Book (1886), and My Book and I (1887).
Which vocalist never sung, nor orator nor actor ever utter'd, Invoking here and now I challenge for my
Which vocalist never sung, nor orator nor actor ever utter'd, Invoking here and now I challenge for my