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piece—I shall write more at length another day, am rather crowded this morning I think I shall remodel my
Horace to meet me at Dooner's to breakfast that day—hope to see you toward noon—same day—Sunday— No, my
That same day, he wrote Horace Traubel: "I am over my eyes in work and my right arm is helpless and painfull—it
entitled "A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads" and sixty-five poems; while the second, "Good-Bye my
At this time, Whitman was planning to include an appendix to his Good-bye My Fancy that would include
INSANE ASYLUM LONDON ONTARIO 14 April 91 Am still here in my big bedroom (across the hall from the one
was good of you to send it me—it is a noble production and raises Wallace even higher than ever in my
health—pretty busy, but that does no harm—Inspector is to be here tomorrow or next day—I am about half through my
sixty-five poems that had originally appeared in November Boughs (1888); while the second, "Good-Bye my
My great regret is that with his magnificent abilities he should have done so comparatively little to
It is postmarked: London | PM | MY 13 | 89 | Canada; Camden, N.J. | May | 15 | 30 PM | 1889 | Rec'd.
Toronto Thursday last (9 th inst.) intending to stay a week and do a lot of things—but, rather curiously, my
a couple of weeks became much inflamed the same night I went down so that I had to make the best of my
the next day—I have suffered a good deal of pain and loss of sleep with it and am still confined to my
I did think of putting off my trip until the end of May but there are reasons why I had better go now—I
My annual Report is most done hope to finish it tomorrow—all well here!
I send you my love and am always affectionately yours R M Bucke Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman
All most welcome—My arm gets on well, am beginning to sleep pretty well again without any sedative Am
letter to Whitman's disciple and biographer Horace Traubel: "I had a fall last evening and dislocated my
"Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and was reprinted in Good-Bye My
—All is in good shape here and the folk all well—the health of the Asylum has been excellent during my
A very few days will wind up my report and then I should be comparatively free.
appreciated by me—I am also very much pleased to have the photo, both to tell me how you look now and for my
Now my dear Walt I don't want to hurry you or worry you but now that you have L. & of G. and S.D. both
any less desirable—I hope S.D. will sell and that Rees Welsh & Co. will feel disposed to take hold of my
Asylum London Ontario London, 11 Nov 18 90 Yours of 8 th came to hand yesterday while I was giving my
could only let union of this continent I think the (political) future of the world would be assured My
INSANE ASYLUM LONDON ONTARIO 11 May 18 91 Well, my dear Walt, I have yours of 8 th inst. and judging
It is postmarked: LONDON | | MY 11 | 91 | CANADA; CAMDEN, N.J. | MAY | 12 | 4 PM | 1891 | REC'D.
Have done nothing more with my W.W. paper, shall rewrite it as soon as I get a little time (a mighty
Tomorrow I think we shall all go for a 15 mile drive to Delaware—H., Anne, Mrs.B., my boy Maurice, self
Right away after Christmas I shall go to work in ernest earnest at my "Cosmic Consciousness" piece and
. & C.W. from you before a very great while—I shall look upon them as the crown and summit of all my
The preface was included in Good-Bye My Fancy (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891), 51–53.
You will feel bad about it I know and it is very natural you should still it is my decided conviction
Robert Browning (1812–1889), known for his dramatic monologues, including "Porphyria's Lover" and "My
keep, if not fairly, at least not markedly worse and I hope to find you "right side up with care" on my
But the main thing I want to talk about to you today is my visit yesterday to Lord Tennyson.
a little before 4 P.M. got out, rang the bell—a footman opened the door, I gave him your letter and my
T. is not much for compliments, very blunt and downright—he spoke of you with much good feeling but my
But after all I fear I can give you but a faint notion of the pleasure my visit was to me.
written to arrange a meeting—he asks me to stay with him (the people here are very kind if I accepted all my
Here we have had no warm weather—I have worn my over-coat so far all the time.
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
My dear Mr Whitman An earnest hand–shake on your birthday & continued presence among us!
"Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and was reprinted in Good-Bye My
Waukesha, Wis., Oct 16 188 9 My dear Mr.
May 30.1889— My Dear Walt— Let me send my hand & heart to you in this pen-scrawl, bearing loving, reverential
Accept then my love, my hopes of other birthdays, my fraternal & gladsome kiss and word on this birthday
However I offer you my congratulations.
Fraternally & Faithfully yours "Dick" (RJ) Hinton My wife joins me fully. Richard J.
My Dear Walt Whitman: May I hope that you are better than the papers say?
I do not press my finger across my mouth, I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and
Amelioration is my lesson, he says with calm voice, and progress is my lesson and the lesson of all things
I am the teacher of athletes, He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my
own, He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
"The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affec- tions affections They scorn the best I can
nights—some literary meditations—books, authors examined, Carlyle, Poe, Emerson tried (always under my
cedar-tree, in the open air, and never in the library)—mostly the scenes everybody sees, but some of my
to the spring under the willows—musical as soft-clinking glasses—pouring a sizeable stream, thick as my
for the buoyant and healthy alone, but meant just as well for ailing folk:— "Who knows (I have it in my
fancy, my ambition) but the pages now ensuing may carry ray of sun, or smell of grass or corn, or call
Sometimes I took up my quarters in the hospital, and slept or watch'd there several nights in succession
excitements and physical deprivations and lamentable sights,) and, of course, the most profound lesson of my
"The later years of the last century," he tells us, "found the Van Velsor family, my mother's side, living
My father's side—probably the fifth generation from the first English arrivals in New England—were at
"In February, 1873," he tells us, "I was stricken down by paralysis, gave up my desk, and emigrated to
And it is to my life here that I, perhaps, owe partial recovery (a sort of second wind, or semi-renewal
young hickory sapling out there—to sway and yield to its tough-limber upright stem—haply to get into my
announcing his "positive conviction that some of these birds sing and others fly and flirt about here for my
for me, blew into space a thousand cobwebs of genteel and ethical illusion, and, having thus shaken my
do I not see my love fluttering out there among the breakers?
Loud I call to you, my love!
who I am, my love.
Hither, my love! Here I am! Here!
But my love no more, no more with me! We two together no more!
are not, in any respect, worse than undetected persons— and are not in any respect worse than I am my
has yet to be known; May-be seeming to me what they are (as doubtless they indeed but seem) as from my
"I round and finish little, if anything; and could not, consistently with my scheme.
Whitman tells us, "Ever since what might be call'd thought, or the budding of thought, fairly began in my
I felt it all as positively then in my young days as I do now in my old ones; to formulate a poem whose
My book ought to emanate buoyancy and gladness legitimately enough, for it was grown out of those elements
, and has been the comfort of my life since it was originally commenced."
"Unstopp'd and unwarp'd by any influence outside the soul within me, I have had my say entirely my own
Let us quote the two poems entitled "Halcyon Days" and "Queries to my Seventieth Year."
this "After the Dazzle of Day": "After the dazzle of day is gone, Only the dark, dark night shows to my
eye the stars; After the clangor of organ majestic, or chorus, or perfect band, Silent, athwart my soul
Two prose pieces which appeared there under the titles "My Book and I" and "How I made a Book" are now
He said once to my father, 'They talk of the devil—I tell thee, Walter, there is no worse devil than
Evidently very intelligent and well-bred—very affectionate—held on to my hand, and put it to his face
I, the Titan, the hard-mouthed mechanic, spending my life in the hurling of words.
few pieces which are marked by the "piano-tune" quality that he derides—the true and tender lyric of "My
Captain" and the fine poem on "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors."
puto translates from Latin to "I am a human being: I regard nothing of human concern as foreign to my
puto translates from Latin to "I am a human being: I regard nothing of human concern as foreign to my
Whitman's poems, though possessing individuality of their own: "Primary chief bard am I to Elphin, And my
I was with my Lord in the highest sphere, On the fall of Lucifer into the depth of hell; I have borne
been in Asia with Noah in the ark; I have seen the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra; I have been with my
whole universe; I shall be until the day of doom on the face of the earth; And it is not known whether my
Echoes of camps, with all th[gap] Trooping tumultuous, all[gap] bending me powerless[gap] Entering my
My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs, On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches
Cycles ferried my cradle, rowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen, For room to me stars kept aside in
I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, And all I see multiplied as high as I can
; No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair;— I have no chair, no church, no philosophy, I lead no
man to a dinner-table, library, exchange; But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll, My