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now how long it will last there is some talk of braking up 4 Companies of the 2 Cav & I dont no but my

son in the army it is about 2 O Clock at night now I am on gard sitting by A big fire you must excuse my

If the appendix is wholly composed of my compositions, and if Dr.

, but we writing-fellows think no small beer of ourselves, and I don't propose to be singular among my

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

Office of The Boston Herald, Boston, Mass., June 21, 188 7 My dear friend: Yours of the 18th received

send more in a few days by calling in the amounts already subscribed as speedily as the pressure of my

May 18, 85 Dear Walt: I have set my house & heart in order for a visit from you before these May days

You would enjoy the country here now, & it would add to the length of my days to see you here again.

Through this year just gone I have come to count you my dear friend.

Since I found my beloved Socrates no one has spoken such sane and manly words to me as you.

your last letter so long that I am most ashamed to write to you now but I know that you will excuse my

My little baby Walt is well & Bright as a dollar. with Love to yourself I will close for the present.

You should see my room.

more, by looking you in the face, recover memories of the past that will refurnish the lost beats of my

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 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.

the time)—Herbert Gilchrist here last evening—bowel action sufficient & regular at present—go out in my

toward sundown —A brisk rattling thunder shower—(will probably change the temperature)—have relish'd my

get the two big vols: (Complete Works 900 pp) I sent for you in a bundle by International Express to my

same constitutional good spirits (a great factor) holding on, but grip & bladder bother—I enclose you my

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

I still hold the fort, (after a fashion)—send you my latest & doubtless concluding chirps of L of G.

spree —I sit up most of the time—but am a fearful wreck f'm grippe, gastric & bladder malady &c &c—my

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

Accept my thanks. I am pleased with the typographical appearance, correctness, &c. of my piece.

Brooklyn, Thursday forenoon April 11 My dear Linton, I have just been spending an hour looking over "

And it is well for me to get such reminding's— But my own vein is full of hope, promise, faith, certainty—I

My Dear & Esteemed Freind I take the present opporutnity to write you these few lines to inform you that

any answer i think it very Strange i recived these two pictures and give one to wilson, and kept one my

is important, I will put down the lap tablet on which I am writing—& finish afterwards— Well I had my

& performance—was used tip top—Mrs Davis went with me—got back here ab't sunset thro' a snow storm—My

In talking with Thomas Sergeant Perry last night we fell to discussing your work, and to my delight I

Howells and he were two of my most honored friends. Hamlin Garland to Walt Whitman, 20 April 1890

leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss, And brought it away—and I have placed it in sight in my

room; It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends, (For I believe lately I think of little

the heart and so kills you you will live to be a thousand years old which is a fate I would not wish my

best friend or worst enemy I send you my love always R M Bucke Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman

Me, ruthless and devilish as any, that my wrists are not chain'd with iron, or my ankles with iron?

Softly I lay my right hand upon you, you just feel it, I do not argue, I bend my head close and half

Softly I lay my right hand upon you, you just feel it, I do not argue, I bend my head close and half

—my figure?"

The subject had been started by my use of the word "dive"—an oyster "dive."

The word saloon came into use first to my knowledge in this country fifty years or so ago through a novel

But there are three or four of my very most intimate friends—those nearest, best understanding me—who

thoroughly realize that my disposition is to hear all—the worst word that is said—the ignorantest—whatever

I can never get them to print my pictures as I want them—with an inclination towards the top of the page—certainly

On the bed were my proofs (Myrick had not given me any new ones today, but hopes to let me have all poems

W. then, "It is hardly to be dignified as 'work': it is simply a last drop, a leave-taking, my farewell—a

My custom was, in the old days, to listen sharply to the pronunciation, accent of the actors—then to

remove from the head—who is friendly (just as I have on the Weekly), but the men at the top are not my

It seems I had not told him of the hanging of my father's watercolor of W. at the Watercolor Exhibition

He left it in my hands, he said. Saturday, March 28, 1891

"But it will turn up, in some one of my searches, and whatever happens, it is yours, Horace—yours to

Quick to see roll in my hand. "What is it? What?"

I expressed my liking for Kennedy's "Dutch Traits of Walt Whitman." Read the manuscript last night.

Milwaukee, Dec 11th 1887 My dear Walt I received your letter the other day—also the papers with the enclosures—and

you again  Probably as Jess has told you I am poking around from place to place spending about 1/3 of my

best of it" I hope, dear Walt, that you will keep in good spirits during the bad weather—I find in my

received the letter I wrote in answer to yours of date "a long time ago" ( very definite ) in reply to my

I have an impression that I can give a reason why you did not answer my last though I perhaps do you

My dear Heaven waitheth waiteth for mortals when earth is departed.

I thought my letter would have the effect of making him cautious. Now for Tobey.

I think you will like it as well as my first letter.

My Jeannie has been very ill this summer, but is getting better, and will go to Providence on Friday.

in Atlantic street, on some accounts, but there is always something—I have not been satisfied with my

several weeks ago, I tried another place & room for a couple of days & nights on trial, without giving up my

old room—Well, I was glad enough to go back to my old place & stay there—I was glad enough I hadn't

one night in passing off the platform of a Car, gave you a rose) I was compelled to many Car rides in my

I thank you Sir, with all my heart, and pray for you the abiding Presence and hourly Comfort of the divine

I go to my home in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, tomorrow.

In my condition they are trebly welcome.

My tedious prostration continues—primarily and mainly an obstinate & baffling cerebral affection, on

Yes, I shall, unless prevented, bring out a volume this summer, partly as my contribution to our National

My Dear Uncle W, Your very kind letter of the 16th was duly received and appreciated to the best of my

I do not know whether there are any characters among my neighbors that would interest you particular

after a long spell of rain storms, but the last two or three days very fine—Mother, I suppose you got my

every thing to fight for their last chance—calling in their forces from southwest &c—Dear Mother, give my

love to dear brother Jeff & Mat & all—I write this in my room, 6th st— Walt Walt Whitman to Louisa Van

I know that it will please you to hear that I have gained tenfold facility with my brush since the autumn

Three of my pictures are nicely hung at the Water Colour Exhibition Academy of Design, the first time

This morning being Sunday, I took my skates to the Park.

sometimes nips ahead and sometimees sometimes tuck but in the main we are all right as long as I only have my

will and would like very much to see you whenever you feel as if you could come or any of the rest of my

I feel myself growing old and failing every day but my health has been better this winter than usual

My dear Sir, Allow me with the deepest reverence & true affection to thank you for the copy of your complete

My selection was settled more than a month ago, & is now going thro' the press .

I shall always hold it one of the truest & most prized distinctions of my writing career to be associated

man—so careful in all business matters, but I have so written it, both for information and to amuse my

Whitman who has done me the greatest honor of my life.

I know the style of my letters is queer, but if you had thought them absurd insincere you would not have

Sometime after this when the lecture was printed my friend saw a copy and read it himself with much pleasure

In my humble opinion they would serve excellently as a heading to Mr Ingersoll's lecture:— "THE DEAD

In case you should wish to honor my friend by a slight acknowledgment of his tribute I enclose addressed

Dear Friend You were so good as to call yourself so, in my book,—that I value more than you guess,—and

The dear little crocuses I picked from my own tiny spot of earth, and sent each one laden with loving

There seemed no prospect of my going. The way seemed hedged.

Robert K.Martin"Scented Herbage of My Breast" (1860)"Scented Herbage of My Breast" (1860)The second of

"Scented Herbage of My Breast" (1860)

published in Lippincott's Magazine in December of 1890 and included in the second annex, "Good-Bye my

characteristically, letting go of its material attributes: "For thou art spiritual, Godly, most of all known to my

is well known, as in line 7: "So sweet thy primitive taste to breathe within—thy soothing fingers on my

Johnson one with the greatest pleasure—(it is one of Brady's photos)—I wish you to give my best respects

inaction—but upon the whole not so severely—& I think very decidedly gradually growing less—The worst is my

—(Unfortunately it was, however, at a time when I was feeling almost at my worst.)

It plainly reached my hands too late for this year.

Well—you told what was true: I wouldn't turn on my heel for it.

I closed my review with a wish that you might try a voyage across the Atlantic.

"The sentence, 'you annex your friends so closely,': that's my guess."

may be a little afraid of some of my friends.

Eats now, sleep— "have my very bad hours, of course"—but on the whole is "out of danger."

Again: "Beecher once said to me: 'I thank my good fortune that nature almost from the first possessed

but if I had the path to go over again—knowing what I know now—I should put that among the first of my

I said: "That 'sThat's my idea for Leaves of Grass—that 'sthat's the book I mean."

I shall keep my eyes wide open; and the volume with O'C.'

. * "No one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance, or as aiming

Leaves of Grass has been chiefly the outcropping of my own emotional and other personal nature—an attempt

day, there can be no such thing as a long poem, fascinated him: "The same thought had been haunting my

flashes of lightning, with the emotional depths it sounded and arous'd (of course, I don't mean in my

"I round and finish little, if anything; and could not, consistently with my scheme.

He started it "My dear comrade," and signed himself as having "the ardor of a regular—or irregular—dyed-in-the

Several times my voice almost betrayed me, and W.'

How my heart leaped into every action of others that went to the finer significance of the occasion.

At another time in the midst of things W. himself motioned to me across the hall and put into my hands

Out of all this, how deliberate the process of my content!

would print me correctly—use the right marks—not misrepresent: I hate commas in wrong places: I want my

i's dotted, my t's crossed."

"Here's a slip too: Democracy in Literature: my own: it's yours if you want it: file it away: I have

My dear Walt,I regret to say I was unable to do anything with the proof of Personalism.

He said: "Give my love to your mother." And he picked up a big apple from the table.