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Harned had said to me, "They shan't collect that money except over my body."
I gave my check for $1500 to Tom just now.
And to my, "Well, and Clifford likes it!" W. exclaimed, "That's best news!
I put in, "If there is no law why should I not rob my brother's house?"
With their admission of the fraud, I had them right in my fist and I made 'em squirm.
over waves, towards the house of maternity, the land of migrations, look afar, Look off the shores of my
"My days I sing, and the land's:" this is the key-note.
I cannot tell how my ankles bend, nor whence the cause of my faintest wish, Nor the cause of the friendship
That I walk up my stoop!
The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows; The air tastes good to my palate.
s on my way to Philadelphia (8:20). He was sleeping—I did not disturb him.
Give him my love. He grows dearer every day.Love to you & Mrs. TraubelYours always,R. G.
—in such a tone as drew all my life together into one sense of recognition and response.
There my memory is treacherous." How alive he seemed!
He had me arrested, but the sympathies of the community were all on my side."
Whitman:I talked last night to my Waltham class (of forty ladies) about your work and read to them.
I always advise my pupils so.
I always found myself saying that in spite of my reservations.
faith, my sympathy, all leans to the one side."
I picked a sheet of paper up from under my feet. It was written over in W.'s handwriting.
My dear Mr. Traubel:Yours received. I have just telegraphed you. Make it Lecture and not Address.
You must have understood my position better.
Not for a moment have I dreamed of objecting to him—it never entered my head."
W. has come to my mind here. For how many people has not he filled Nature with a fuller life!
W. remarked on my recital of this—"And a bright newspaper man he must be."
Harned was present part of the time of my stay.
W. said: "I am fortunate: now I can make sure of all my possessions.
Congratulated me on my possession of the picture.
the letters extra meanings: I am passing many of them over to you: I want to sort of fasten them in my
I don't well know when my American Selection will be out: my work on it is done, and the rest depends
"Then my displacement occurred: then I came to grief: there's nothing but my old hulk left."
He smiled over my latest skepticism.
I certainly fell over my own feet that time.
My memory never played me such a mean trick: I've had horrible experiences to meet, endure—but my memory
I took the note out of my pocket again and offered it to W.
You must have said something to stir him up on the subject of my health.
T. set rather a bad precedent immediately after my coming here!
I have finished my work at Oxford, and in the autumn I shall begin writing.
A silence on my part—and their solicitude!
He wished a duplicate plate of the title-page—"for my own use," he said, "for reasons."
O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! Such sights and sounds!
change of the light and shade, I see distant lands, as real and near to the inhabitants of them as my
see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, Do not weep for me, this is not my
I do not refuse you my hand, or prefer others before you, I do not say one word against you.
way myself, I find my home wherever there are any homes of men.
Surface 40 contains, among other notes, a cancelled line reading "yet my soul-dearest leaves—the hardest
—What seek you do you want among my haughty and jealous democracies of the north?
woman, or my flesh and blood.
—There are my officers and my courts.—At the Capitol is my Legislature.
—It is foreign to my usages, as to my eyes and ears.—Go back to the power that sent you.
free cities, or my teeming country towns, or along my rivers, or sea shore.— 19 But why do I babble
Good By My Fancy . 2d Annex to Leaves of Grass By Walt Whitman. (Philadelphia: David McKay.).
Review of Good-Bye My Fancy
Louis Packet Company, is submitted to me for my opinion on the questions of law arising in the premises
of them, and that I would with pleasure consider the questions of law in the case, should he desire my
My purpose at present is, to request that you will send me, if you still have connection with this matter
S. shall be taken in the matter, without communicating with me, and receiving my instructions.
together with a Report thereon by the Examiner of Claims in your Dept., and requesting an expression of my
This reference presents, as I conceive, purely a question of fact for my determination, and such a question
Your return to Illinois for the purpose of settling your private business would meet my entire approval
continuously in them, ready to attend to whatever official duties may present themselves, and that in my
May 21, 1869, from the then Secretary of War to me transmitting those papers, in which he requests my
prohibited by the Act of February 21, 1867, I have to say that, in accordance with your oral request made to my
Although you were informed in my letter of the 23rd of November last that I did not intend to authorize
you to subject the Government to expense in the inquiry directed in my letter of August 30th last, I
It is a very good picture—one of the best in its way—that is my verdict.
It is a long story of woe—a catalogue of impecuniosities—this record of my printed labor!"
Late (my mother says after she had gone to bed) Warren rang bell.
Wallace Warren was very frank to tell my mother his conviction that W.
Far back, related on my mother's side, Old Salt Kossabone, I'll tell you how he died; (Had been a sailor
—these his the last words—when Jenny came, he sat there dead; Dutch Kossabone, Old Salt, related on my
Still Night of Sleep—my bridal Night!
Earth of the limpid gray of clouds purer and clearer for my sake!
BY the City Dead-House, by the gate, As idly sauntering, wending my way from the clangor, I curious pause—for
take one breath from my tremulous lips; Take one tear, dropt aside as I go, for thought of you, Dead
This will excuse my dilatoriness as a correspondent) Rhys & I go up to lunch with Sanborn Friday—Rhys
Nothing delights me more & my limitations are so many.
Traubel in my letter to him for the photograph of William, & also for the pictures of the "laughing Philosopher
Traubel got my letter. How goes it with you? Send a line. With love always— Nelly O'Connor.
Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Thursday, September 12, 1889 and Saturday, September 14, 1889: "My
3 april 1871 sunday Sunday My dear walt Walt i write a few lines this beautifull beautiful morning to
month or so) you will come home before long wont won't you walter Walter dear i wish you would send my
hear—But, Mother, you must not worry about it—it will be arranged some way— There is nothing new in my
I write this at my desk—spring is quite advanced here—it is a damp, misty, cloudy forenoon—but pleasant—I
money for it, (& great good it does me, coming now)—Herbert Gilchrist is here—he is drawing & painting my
perhaps the best thing yet—Love to your father, yourself & Alys, the baby dear, & all—as I end, after my
to write to me,—he is a young man I always loved. ½ past 2 —I have just had a nice oyster stew for my
I will try to stop in Philadelphia & find that little dictionary I promised you— So long, my loving son
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
Camden Sunday afternoon May 19 My dear friend I came up last night from a three days visit to White Horse
will last me a long while—got home about one o'clock, (it has now just struck four)—consequence of my
I think in A few days I Can put on my boots & not hurt me much of anny there is lots of fruits here
of them ten cents noats if you pleas it is verry loansome here to me I hope that I shall soon gow to my
duty is verry hard now on our regiment especily for it is pretty small well now I will have to close my
letter by saying good by my dear friend walt Bethuel Smith to Walt Whitman, 28 February 1864
Washington May 18 1864 Dearest Mother, I will only write you a hasty note this time, as I am pretty tired, & my
Did you send my last letter to Han?
My acquaintance with 'Leaves of Grass' dates from my early university days some ten years ago, when having
It brings peace to my soul to know that I can read and understand Leaves of Grass.
"My Spirit to Yours" Dear Brother, Marilla B Minchen. Carroll. Iowa. MB Minchen Marilla B.
may say that at this meeting I had the pleasure of hearing several warm admirers of yourself discuss my
Perhaps in its printed form my article may stimulate others to enquire.
Joaquin Miller '75 see notes June 20 1888 Highland Falls Orange Co County New York State Sept. 5, 75 My
Do keep up my dear fellow there is lots in the tomorrows for you and I want you to live to see the Great
Perryville—Md Feb. 12/90 My dear Mr Whitman You will, no doubt be surprised, when you see the signature
I have often been tempted to write you—to thank you for your kindness in writing to my boy —far away
Camden Sunday afternoon Jan: 30— My dear friend, I rec'd received your good letter some days since, &
write you—it is now ½ past 2, after dinner, & I have been writing & fixing up a composition alone in my
Connecticut I am well and so is my Family.
My health is better than it has been in some time I have a little place here and are triing trying hard
came to me saying, "You think so much as Uncle Walt does, you ought to know him" and she placed in my
I read them, and I have reread many times since, the vital words that record the history of my own soul
My wife has arranged to go among her folks on Tuesday, so that day we will probably be out of town.
As Monday is my press day (getting the Register printed & mailed) could not get to meet you that day
I am getting on—my heart is in my work—& though I have been long about it, it won't be long—but I think
5 April 1870 Brooklyn Apri l April 5 My dear Walt i have just received your letter and the order all
walter Walter dear its it's in your power to deal so generously to your mother) i am rather better of my
incursions, no more new developments in the Ginnaty affair, no more detentions by fire or water occur, my
I shall get into New York about an hour later than usual, & put my baggage upon the Stonington Boat to
Sunday 21th old man i got your kind and welcom welcome letter last week and was glad to hear from you my
would like to see you and have a talk i love you Walt and all ways always will so may god Bless you is my
My dear friend, It gave me much pleasure to hear from you; and now I am quite full of gratitude for the
I shall keep my eyes wide open; and the volume with O'C's introduction shall come out just as it is.
gave him the letter to print—I enclose you the slip—how well & off-hand it reads —I am living here in my
Lay (my housekeeper) was attacked with cholera infantum & brain trouble a week ago—the doctor insisted
My friends: I have now just ready an article intended as the third & concluding one to the two already
I have, of course, treated the subject in my own way—certain parts strong & earnest—but there is nothing