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He had held the rank of captain since November 1, 1862, and after the war he attempted unsuccessfully

to secure a commission as a captain in the regular standing army (Jerome M.

machine, and that I must consign myself to the fate of the rest....Meantime I make about enough to pay my

My main object is to ask you if you can possibly hear anything of Lane's nephew (or boy as he calls him

I had certainly made up my mind that we should meet with partial success certainly, but it seems otherwise

Louis May 9th 1873 My dear Walt I received your letter and I do not think you can form an idea how very

sincerely hope that you are right in your theory that the slow recovery indicates permanency—I hope to God, my

Louis, Nov 9th 1886 My dear Walt Two or three times within the last half dozen days we have seen (and

As good luck would have it we have had a splendid fall as regards weather—and too my work has been of

short time) this does occur, and of course she gives way to her feelings, poor child, but I am doing my

Our captain though[t] he would run the risk and save the time (it takes some time longer to go through

gather something about his early relationship with Walt on the basis of the latter's short sketch, "My

better than she had for years before, I hope she will continue to feel so, (I think I mentioned in my

thousand dollars he is comeing north, And I too am saveing all I can get I give Walter five dollars (my

peice a foot square  So ended all that Monday April 24th By this mornings mail I received a letter from my

I shall write to you again pretty soon, untill then good bye your son Jefferson Whitman My love to Mary

the corner" is a very fine public park, which we take a walk in every night I believe I told you in my

My work is good and light.

well now, in fact I have not been sick much at all Dear Mother good bye your son Jefferson Whitman My

I am now at work in the "Crescent" office at five dollars per week, and my work is done by three o'clock

To My Dear Mother I do want to hear from you very, very much, do write to Walter or me and tell us how

Dear Sister you must also write to me (but please pay the postage)  Among the others I must not forget my

morning yours of March 14th —I am deeply sensible of the interest you have taken for me and return my

to fill—it is an entirely different branch of the profession from that in which I have been engaged—My

and the general superintendance of building a piece of work—As a draughtsman I am totally deficient—my

Louis, April 18th 1869 Wm O'Connor Esq My dear friend The package of "Reports" and afterwards your letter

received—I intended before this to write you and return thanks for the same—but like many other of my

you for the Reports—they furnished me with just the information I needed and you will please receive my

other reports of a like nature  I am very greedy to get these things and shall probably show it in my

the change of "government" will not hurt either you or him I remember with a great deal of pleasure my

Louis, March 28th 1869 Wm O'Connor My dear friend I am anxious to obtain through you whatever copies

with me here, and when you can duplicate the copies we would both be thankful I must beg pardon for my

much when had) I am forced to secure as best I can the records of the experience of others Please give my

of this city contained a notice of the celebration of your seventy-second birth day; and called to my

none other than your self, and I have never ceased to feel deeply grateful to you for your kindness to my

visits to him were repeated again and again, until his death, and I know gave him great pleasure .— My

wholly passed from your memory, and to tell you that the lapse of quarter of a Century has not lessened my

appreciation of the attention shown my brother.— May Gods best belongings rest upon you.

years past and returned to York State a few weeks ago think of staying here for a time to take care of my

I have lost track of nearly all my old chums if I was able to travil travel I would like to see some

of flower seeds if so I will send you the money to pay for them and your trouble I will have to draw my

letter to a close for fear of wearing your patients patience to read it Please except accept my love

London Dec 6 th —81 To my Dear Friend M r Whitman, I sit now in my hall on duty, to write you these few

I gus guess I will bring my letter to a close, By sending the Love of all the asylum Employies Employees

Dear brother I hardly know what to say to you in this letter for it is my first one to you but it will

not be my last I should have written to you before but I am not a great hand at written and I have ben

very buisy fixing my tent for this winter and I hope you will forgive me and in the future I will do

I send you my love and best wishes. Good by from Your Brother, Sergt Thomas P Sawyer P.S. 

It is [my] sincere wish that Johny Makey will survive the operation and ultimately recover.

Yes my dear Brother, You have my friendship as fully as you can desire, and I hope we will meet again

Having nothing more of importance to communicate, I will conclude with my best wishes for your health

My dear Sir : I should like, if I can do so without impertinence, to send you my grateful thanks for

You have, through them, infused into my life and into the lives of many others, a fresher, healthier

I send you a paper which I read in October last in Warrington, Lancashire, and let my sincerity and enthusiasm

be my excuse for the utter inadequacy of treatment of a subject I both love and revere.

I remain, my dear sir, with grateful thanks, Thomas Tylston Greg.

Respected Sir, My object in writing to you is simply to request that you would favor me with your autograph

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

acknowledges Whitman's influence in the following statements: "I find it difficult to imagine what my

'Leaves of Grass' 'filtered and filtered' my blood; but I do not think I ever tried to imitate it or

1882 June 10th 29 Lange Strasse Dresden My dear Whitman I learn to day to my great surprise that the

This will perhaps lead to my finding a collaborateur for the translation—said translation owing to press

of other business has not been very rigorously pursued lately, but after this month I shall take off my

Yet then, and always, that was the cause that had my affection & interest—only I saw such obstacles in

Now all that has changed itself in my mind.

My dear Walt The enclosed will interest you—From all accounts the reception of book here is very satisfactory

We are here for my wifes health, which I am glad to say is much improved. Ever yours T. W.

My dear Walt The enclosed will interest you.

We are here for my wifes health, which I am glad to say is much improved. Ever yours T. W.

We have left Bad-Elster, the baths having perfectly restored my wife's health to our great joy.

works, to me, is that they have given me unspeakable religious certitude and confidence, have opened my

For Whitman's own response to Stedman's article, see "My Tribute to Four Poets" in Specimen Days and

. | & wrote postal card August 14th/82 29 Lange Strasse Dresden My dear master I wish you could send

We went over one glacier, where my friend distinguished himself by falling into a crevasse.

Shall introduce quotations liberally & see what they think of my translation.

A shameful business altogether, which makes me thankful that I am not an Englishman except against my

'82 29 Lange Strasse Dresden Tuesday Feb 14 My dear Whitman So you have had a visit from the Aesthete

I enclose herewith a page of my translation of the Leaves of Grass—you needn't save it as I don't want

Well, if I was to unburden all my mind on this weary subject I should go on till—till things got better

My wife knows them well too.

York has given very high praise to my Encheiridion.

But for myself I do not feel that I could be overwhelmed by any misfortune that left my mind untouched

I came across the book this last summer, and it laid hold of my mind so that I could not put it away

I have been trying, since my return to Germany, to find out that essay you allude to in the N.A.

My 'Encheiridion' ought to be out very soon as I have sent in the last proof sheets.

My dear friend and master— I am at last able to send you the lecture, which I have now got published

I have appended to my lecture a transl. translation of the Song of the Answerer, & in getting this translation

astonished at the amount of discussion it gave rise to, between myself & a German friend who looked over my

I had hoped great things from Gladstone's government, but that accursed Egyptian war opened my eyes finally

And yet I did not always see my way to these views myself.

I have not read anything of the man himself yet—though I find that my reading & thinking for long past

Dresden '83 My dear Master I got your post card last Tuesday morning.

Yet in writing my essay, I had no thought of him, nor had mentioned him.

As to my translation of the I am now ready to cooperate with any competent German, i.e.

Perhaps my essay when published may lead to something. I got Dr. Bucke's book.

I will send him my essay when it appears. Nothing more to say now.

Nov. 28 [1881] 29 Lange Strasse Dresden My dear Whitman Yesterday I received all your dispatches—viz,

Still I am very glad that I have it complete in my old .

This volume, with its new poems, etc. offered a field of "pleasant exploration" and renewed my sense

I have ordered my book to be sent to the American papers you mentioned.

You should have recd. received a copy of my Encheiridion by this. Thomas W. H.

Dear Friend and Master You see I am now back in my own country.

I am staying, with my wife (I have been married about 18 months) at my father's house.

You did not say anything about my translation of Epictetus which I sent you.

I want it as a present for a friend, so don't write my name in the beginning.

Indeed the friend is my wife—so on second thoughts I would be glad, & so would she, if you would write

My translation I hope to get finished by Spring.

My essay has not much translation in it, but I think of appending a complete transl. translation of some

My Dear Walt.

All of us well—especially my two little boys, who enjoy the country life very much.

Then my father got very ill & I had to go down & see him (he is all right now.)

Then business in London, tedious travelling half across Europe, & now my wife and I are fixed in a little

I send you some stanzas about my day's walk with O'Grady (I found out shortly that he was a lover and

In a letter to Horst Frenz of August 13, 1950, Captain C. H.

Rolleston wrote: "I do not think there can be any doubt that my Father's schoolmaster friend was H.

April 5 th . 28 Terrassen Ufer Dresden My dear Master I have to tell you that the plan of the translations

I have begun working at my translation with a German friend who is fully competent to help & has holidays

I shan't let my own name appear, lest the fact of my being a foreigner might prejudice people against

I think, after all, that my former objections to giving the English of the L. of G. with the translation

We go for a month or so into the country soon, and from the time you get this till the end of June my

Dresden My Dear Walt— I write to tell you how things are going now about the translation, &c.

First I translated all I am going to give as well as I could out of my own unassisted resources and handed

over the M.S. manuscript to my colleague.

my preface to the work and Freiligrath's article from the Allg.

My address then will be Glasshouse, Shinrone, Ireland. This indeed is always sure to find me.

his January 16, 1872 letter to Rudolf Schmidt, Whitman wrote that Freiligrath "translates & commends my

Rolleston's son, Captain C. H.

Rolleston, informed Horst Frenz in 1950: "I do not think there can be any doubt that my Father's schoolmaster

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.

My dear Walt— I got your second letter yesterday, forwarded here from Dresden.

I have mentioned it in my preface.

I sent with my M.S. manuscript a copy of Freiligrath's article, & did all I could to secure a favourable

But I think I can rely on my father's helping me to the extent needed.

He & my mother are greatly delighted with the two grandchildren we have brought them home.

his January 16, 1872 letter to Rudolf Schmidt, Whitman wrote that Freiligrath "translates & commends my

The date below your photograph in the Two Rivulets had caught my eye that morning—and after some pondering

I have left Ireland and pitched my tent temporarily (that is for a few years) in Germany, a sojourn which

But of course my impression may be, probably is, utterly wrong: how could it be more than a random guess

It has three or four poems not in my old copy, but I heard of a poem beginning—"Thou who hast slept all

couple of months afterwards I heard that she had never received any answer, & after some time I wrote to my

I cannot let this occasion pass without renewing my thanks, sending you again my greeting and love.

I have joined hands with you in it, tried to realize its ideals in my life; and to lead others to do

I got too the paper with translation from my essay, for which I owe the editor & translator deep thanks

Bucke about my lecture.

is progressing well, though the necessity of taking pupils which I am under now costs a good deal of my

The essay alluded to is probably Whitman's "A Backward Glance on My Own Road" in the January 5, 1884

substantial volume—not that I am overwhelmed or even entirely satisfied by it, but as I had not put my

Wicklow My dear Walt I have to tell you that towards the end of December I sent back to the German publisher

Democracy To a Boy of the West Doubt of Appearances Give me the Sun To one about to die (KK) That Shadow My

Who Learns my Lesson complete What am I— Square Deific. O Poverty, wincings—.

It is extremely obnoxious to my digestion, sir! So let me have no more salutations from you, sir!”