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I would be willing to make you an immediate payment of $250.00 on account and will do everything in my

EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT THE CENTURY MAGAZINE UNION SQUARE NEW YORK Marion, Mass My dear Mr.

My dear Mr.

My dear Whitman, All the poems you have let me print before are of such a kind that I felt they would

England Oct October 1: 1879 My dear Mr.

I have just received a letter from my friend in which he says: "I enclose you my promised Provençal translation

Do, I beg of you, do me the great favor to present them to him, in my name, when next you see him.

If ever I go to America, I assure you that one of my first visits will be to this most sympathetic of

poets, for whose large & lofty nature my admiration is merged into love ."

My dear Whitman, I am delighted that you liked Miss Phelps's story so well.

My heart has been very bad for months.

My dear Sir, Yours of 27 January, and Leaves of Grass, received.

I hope that you did not consider my request for your photograph impertinent.

and therefore my allusion to it.

that I did my best—however—perhaps I soared too high—in addressing Barbarians.

I had told Dowden of my not having received any reply to my cards or letters and my apprehension that

My companion, the moment he saw her, directed my attention to her by a peculiar movement of the head.

female—though I could hardly divine what or who she had been—and when we left the place, I reminded my

He then went on to give me the particulars of this celebrated mutiny, which I had read in my own country

when a boy, but which had nearly escaped my memory.

intentions, and that G OD will receive me into favor: and I sincerely hope that my death will be the

I have begun my Annual Report am going to make it pretty long this year—shall put in a lot about alcohol—results

I shall be kept here pretty steady I guess until I get the Report off my hands, a month from now, after

ONTARIO London, Ont., 9 Oct 188 8 I have the "November Boughs" today with my name and yours on fly leaf

I lay this book by as one of my most precious possessions.

If this book does not go I shall think (as my father used to say) that "the devil is in it" for sure.

good inscription and the little autograph notes which will make it one of the most precious volumes in my

I feel richer than ever now that I have my "Leaves" all back again and these treasures added to them

this past week but now it is dark, dark, and blowing and raining like all possessed—but I sit here in my

And what do you think of my suggestion to write some autobiographical notes, jottings?

9 th Nov. 82 My dear Walt I have your card of 6 and we shall count on your coming here early in Dec.

would it not be as well (or necessary) for me to go to Philadelphia to arrange for the publication of my

[London,] Nov. 9 th 79 My dear Walt Whitman For the last two weeks I have been expecting to hear from

Rock Mountains—gave out about two weeks ago & have been quite sick ever since (principal trouble with my

Asylum for the Insane, London, 9th May 188 3 My dear Walt I returned home last evening and found plate

I am up to my eyes in work R M Bucke Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 9 May 1883

of to do is to have the correspondence just forwarded me by O'Connor printed with some comments of my

Please let me know at once what you think of my plan Your friend R M Bucke Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt

necessary arrangements and we will move Northward as soon as convenient after I get across the water—My

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

Yes, as you imagine I am indeed up to my eyes in work but one thing I am glad of—I have got over the

Whitman's poem "My 71st Year" was published in Century Illustrated Magazine in November 1889.

warmish, gloomy weather here for some days now and continues as if it had come to stay—Can hardly read in my

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

I fancy Herbert Gilchrist must be with you by this time—give him my kind regards and tell him I hope

Yesterday was my wedding day—we are 23 years married —getting to be quite old folk!

ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE LONDON, ONTARIO London, Ont. 8 Nov 188 9 It is after tea (7 P.M.), I am over in my

soon as I get a few hundred that I can spare (and I look for that time to come very soon now) it is my

My oldest boy, Maurice is appointed on the Geological Survey at $ 60.00 , and found—pretty good, eh?

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

trust you are (even if "very very slowly") gaining and am glad to have you say that you believe in my

I find I have it in my catalogue.

I know something of it and of you—that is greatness enough for me—yes and greatness enough to carry my

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

of fresh air, have since had a cup of tea and a piece of dry toast and am now (630 P.M.) sitting at my

desk in my office at the Asylum.

Sometimes as I read it I feel as if my whole previous life were rolling en masse through me and as if

Tomorrow I give my 7 th lecture to the students—one more will end the course for this year.

We are all well I send you my best love R M Bucke Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 8 December 1889

is and has been warm even here but not disagreeably so—you will recollect that I have proofs to 117 —my

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

It is postmarked: LONDON | MY 7 | 91 | CANADA.; CAMDEN, N.J. | MAY | 9 | 1PM | 1891 | REC'D.

sane people about the institution more or less sick. 2 out of the 4 doctors in bed nearly every one at my

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

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

I could convey no idea to you of how it affects my soul.

I got it, looked into it with wonder, and felt that here was something that touched on depths of my humanity

the November 27 issue (p. 282), however, did contain a paragraph about Whitman's forthcoming Good-Bye My

a splendid fellow and I trust I may often see him and the other good Bolton fellows before I finish my

I wish you had some of my physical strength, dear Walt, so that Major Pond might take you on the lecture

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

greatest admiration for him and the magnificent way he has behaved all through—I hope it may be in my

power someday to show my appreciation of his excellent qualities in some practical way.

6 March [18]91 Yours of 28 th ult and 1 st inst reached me day before yesterday as I was on my way to

out there much. [—] I hope now not to be so crowded and to have more time to write and keep track of my

I don't see anything to whine about in getting old—think (on the whole) it is rather a good joke—my strongest

Have heard nothing yet from Lippencott Lippincott and have done nothing further about my piece but all

My brother Eustace (who you will remember)—we call him Duke—arrived here at noon today from Ottawa We

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

I am well again, go my round, &c & as usual—feel first rate too—good appetite, sleep well, &c.

of these paid for & 10 to be acct'd for & 4 TR Asylum for the Insane, London, Feb February 6 18 80 My

I delivered my lecture in Chatham the other day and this is some of the result—I shall probably have

We are all well here I send you my love R M Bucke Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 6 December 1888

up yet, but as far as I am concerned I like it first rate have a good hard coal fire in the grate in my

My annual report is nearly all in rough draft and some of it copied out—it will be considerably longer

It is postmarked: LONDON | PM) | MY 5 | 91 | CANADA.; CAMDEN, N.J. | MAY | 6 | 4 | 1891 | REC'D.

My folks at the house are all well.

I shall be pretty busy now for a while after my absence gathering up the ends of the strings and getting

them in order in my hands again—fortunately for me I have good, honest, faithful, capable assistants

"Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and was reprinted in Good-Bye My

forward hopefully to many a good hour with you yet when the success of the meter shall have loosened my

hands and my feet from some of the restraints that are now upon them.

My arm gets on finely, am at office every day, eat & sleep fairly well Love to you R M Bucke hand to

letter to Whitman's disciple and biographer Horace Traubel: "I had a fall last evening and dislocated my

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

My plan is that sometime (any time) before the 1 st June John Burroughs should run down to Philadelphia