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My dear Friend: I received your beautiful gift yesterday afternoon just in time for Xmas, and I cannot
My dear friend: That young fop, Hartmann, has sent me a ms. for Herald called "A Lunch with Walt Whitman
My dear friend: I have been thinking very often of you lately, and wishing that something might be done
Lovering, the Member of Congress from my district, 6 th Massachusetts, and influential member of committee
This one is devoted to some of your poems and is partly written by me, partly by my friend W. Q.
The Herald, Boston, Oct. 8, 188 7 My dear Friend: I have yours of yesterday and enclose a list of the
of materials" for the "real reality" that lurks behind a "show of appearance" ("Scented Herbage of My
I was rather amused (when I told some of my friends at home that I had seen you), at the ideas they seemed
to have of my object in calling on you.
It might have been my friend as well as myself who called but I had the opportunity.
I cannot very well leave my ship just now so I post it to you, he would have liked to have sent a more
as two—as my soul and I; and I gu reckon it is the same with all oth men and women.— I know that my
trousers around my boots, and my cuffs back from my wrists and go among the rough drivers and boatmen
I tell you just as beautiful to die; For I take my death with the dying And my birth with the new-born
lips, to the palms of my hands, and whatever my hands hold.
hands, and my head my head mocked with a prickly I am here after I remember crucifixion and bloody coronation
June 11, 1886 My dear Walt Whitman: Some weeks after I had made my last remittance to you I received
My dear Mr Whitman I should like to bring Dr. de Schweinitz one of the very best oculists in the city
April 15. 1886 My dear Mr.
Furness 50 J B Lippincott Co. 25 175 and my own check for one hundred & twenty-nine, (129) dollars, in
My dear Mr.
Sunday My dear Mr. Whitman I enclose the only one of the Herald contributions I have recently seen.
My dear Mr.
My dear Mr.
of my friends.
, probably my last.
It is called 'Good-bye, My Fancy,' and is now in the press.
with me and encouraged me in my theories.
Give my regards to all my friends, and particularly to the press fellows, for I never forget that I was
"Every fine day I have my stalwart attendant wheel me out, often to the Federal street ferry, where,
As Carlyle says in his life of John Sterling, many of my seances with O'Reilly are written in star-fire
meeting at Young's was a most memorable one, and Emerson was kind enough to select the passages from my
England are imperative and I must soon sail for merrie England, and after a short stay I will keep my
promise to visit you and to renew my pleasant memories of the Pacific slope.'
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.
It is a joy and a pride to my heart to know that this feeling is truly returned" (qtd. in Evans 115).
far, he succeeds in presenting very much such a picture of the grave and courteous young Provincial Captain
I beg your acceptance of the enclosed & though but trifling, it will nevertheless show what my feelings
—I was in the struggle to prevent Kansas being made a Slave State & my name must have been known to you
the midday sun, the impalpable air—for life, mere life, For precious ever-lingering memories, (of you my
mother dear —you, father—you, brothers, sisters, friends,) For all my days—not those of peace alone—the
war's chosen ones, The cannoneers of song and thought—the great artillerists—the foremost leaders, captains
They hail from Bushwick, and consist of 62 muskets, Walter Jimmerson, Captain.
This was revised to become section 40 of Calamus in 1860; in 1867 it was retitled That Shadow, My Likeness
That Shadow My Likeness
That Shadow, My Likeness. That Shadow, my Likeness.
THAT shadow, my likeness, that goes to and fro, seek- ing seeking a livelihood, chattering, chaffering
where it flits; How often I question and doubt whether that is really me; —But in these, and among my
lovers, and caroling my songs, O I never doubt whether that is really me.
That Shadow My Likeness. THAT SHADOW MY LIKENESS.
THAT shadow my likeness that goes to and fro seeking a liveli- hood livelihood , chattering, chaffering
and looking at it where it flits, How often I question and doubt whether that is really me; But among my
That Shadow, My Likeness THAT SHADOW, MY LIKENESS.
THAT shadow, my likeness, that goes to and fro, seek- ing seeking a livelihood, chattering, chaffering
it where it flits; How often I question and doubt whether that is really me; But in these, and among my
lovers, and carolling my songs, O I never doubt whether that is really me.
That Shadow My Likeness. THAT SHADOW MY LIKENESS.
THAT shadow my likeness that goes to and fro seeking a liveli- hood livelihood , chattering, chaffering
and looking at it where it flits, How often I question and doubt whether that is really me; But among my
—My wife sends her warm regards to you. She desires much to see you. W.W.T.
My dear little wife wants to write you a letter, and will when the domestic gods are propitious, so that
have the Constitution always on its side, by the simple application of Swift's axiom—"Orthodoxy is my
It was later published under the title Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891)
both for magazine publication and for the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass, where it was published as My
Mymanuscriptwasrevisedunderverydifficultconditions,andIowea great deal to my siblings—the late Rachel
prefatory poem of the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass, which was later revised as Small the Theme of My
prefatory poem of the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass, which was later revised as Small the Theme of My
It will be the whole expression of the design which I had in my mind When I Began to Write.
Now, that is the way it has been with my book. It has been twenty-five years building.
My theory in making the book is to give A Recognition of All Elements compacted in one— e pluribus unum
"My poetry," continued Mr.
Many of my friends have no patience with my opinion on this matter.
leafhandwritten; Draft fragment of a note for the short poem An Ended Day, which was first published in Good-Bye My
“No parish money, no loaf, No pauper badges for me, A son of the soil, by right of toil Entitled to my
No alms I ask, give me my task Here are the arm, the leg, The strength, the sinews of a man, To work
has been attached by a collector or archivist to a backing sheet, together with And there, Drops of my
371886, Apr. 15, "Abraham Lincoln"loc.01762xxx.00531[The subject or text of my]1879–1887prose1 leafhandwrittenprinted
[The subject or text of my]
From my very soul, I look with sorrow on the pitiable and black souled malice which actuates such men
In Specimen Days (1882), November Boughs (1888), and Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), as well as his early newspaper
before being collected in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). [Then Another and very grave point]
17unc.00012xxx.00486Then my mother hastening1883-1888prose1 leafhandwritten; This manuscript contains
Then my mother hastening
senses all men is truth; Logic and sermons never convince ; me; The dew of the night drives deep er into my
/ Logic and sermons never convince, / The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul. / Only what proves
Mr Walt Whitman, Dear Sir, For the first time in my life I heard of you last winter, and your wonderful
That was my first acquaintance with you. It was also a revalation revelation .
That is all of yours I have ever read, just enough to whet my appetite.
I want it badly but had spent all my spare change before I knew I wanted it.
it round like a barrel, as it were, the poetry was all choked out and it fell flat and insipid from my
My dear Walt Whitman, We are so sorry to hear you are so ill, & we long to help you.
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
THESE carols sung to cheer my passage through the world I see, For completion I dedicate to the Invisible
THESE carols sung to cheer my passage through the world I see, For completion I dedicate to the Invisible