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of Bascom 242 F Street stating that our testimony did not agree with the company rolls in regard to my
Clair my best wishes to you and Mrs.
Mr Abbot offered to assist me if necessary if he is there perhaps he can use his influence in my favour
MY DEAREST FRIEND: I had a lingering hope —till Herby went south again—that I should have a letter from
I expect Herby has described our neighbours to you—specially Levi Bryant, the father of my hostess—a
Chadwick, &c., from New York, with whom I have pleasant chats daily when I trudge up to fetch my letters—now
Anderton, near Chorley Lancashire, England 10 July 1891 My dear Walt Whitman, Two memorable & happy days—yesterday
—I have been looking forward eagerly to reading it, but it surpasses my best anticipations.
three, indeed, I cannot think of without swelling pride & joy in having such noble manly fellows for my
I was in my tent, washing and geting ready to go on parade, when our Orderly Sergeant came to my tent
I was quite taken aback I tell you as it was done so quietly that I was taken by surprise and my being
19 Oct 1869 tuesday Tuesday October 19 my dear Walter i receeved received your letter to day with the
magazine now adays but like to read it particularly at present for i have had such a sore thumb on my
visit that i particularly wanted her to come and that she must write to me as soon as she received my
I believe I told you in my last letter about the strange way the baby was born in the Chaplain's—well
past week or so, the heat is bad for the poor wounded men— Well, Lewy, I must now wind up—I send you my
love, my darling son & comrade, & request you to write me soon as convenient, how you are getting along
21 Feb '67 21 of febuary February My dear Walter here we are with another awfull awful snow storm it
should go but i would have had a pretty hard time with dooing doing the work and davis to cook for with my
coal but i let every thing slide along but i think matty gets better) but we get along pretty well my
Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Whitman wrote that Mason "used to be in my party on the Water Works" (see his
I felt soon, & feel now, that it was a great impropriety on my part, & it has caused me much compunction
My recollection is that I confessed judgment, & proposed to Mr.
He came by appointment to my room in Classon avenue, Brooklyn, June 17, 1857, talked over the matter,
I was sorry you did not come up to my room to get the shirt & other things you promised to accept from
O my dear comrade & brother, I hope it will prove your good luck to come safe through all the engagements
Now, my dearest comrade, I will bid you so long , & hope God will put it in your heart to bear toward
suppose the weather—& Nelly, half-sick, & Jennie about the same (but she will soon spring up)—aroused my
My sister Martha at St.
months ago —she has since no trouble with the cancer, (or supposed cancer)—Jeff & the children well—My
, & the nag Ned looks as well as ever—it is now nearly 12—& we are going to have chicken for dinner—My
We had a flurry of snow last evening, & it looks wintry enough to-day, but the sun is out, & I take my
Dec 14, & will write before long —All here speak of you with love, & send affectionate remembrances—My
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.
My Legacy
of my adherence
My Departure
Beginning My Studies
Earth My Likeness
That Shadow My Likeness
My Picture-Gallery
My Canary Bird
My 71st Year
my two theses
Scented Herbage of My Breast
Weave in, My Hardy Life
Queries to My Seventieth Year
Small the Theme of My Chant
From My Last Years
Come, said my Soul
["Don't read my books,"]
Queries to My Seventieth Year
Who Learns My Lessons Complete
Mannahatta [My city's fit and noble]
Not my Enemies ever invade me
Not Heaving from my Ribb'd Breast Only
Good-Bye My Fancy [separate volume]
Paumanok, and My Life on it as Child and Young Man
My Native Sand and Salt Once More
—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
The only object which my predecessor could have had in referring the subject to the U. S.
Attorney, and to give that officer the instructions contained in my letter to him.
Of course whatever may be my interest as a citizen in the politics of the South generally, and of Alabama
I am unable at this distance, and with my limited information to determine whether the transactions in
Like the bachelor-speaker of "My Boys and Girls," the speaker here knows that the way to keep his heart
Childhood here, as in "My Boys and Girls," calls up other reminders of the sorrows of the world and especially
I have marked in my note book 'rec'd'"—spelling it out—"and no doubt for good reason."
I have told you about my Chihuahua experience.
"I keep my troubles on a field I can control," he said, jokingly, "remembering the doctor who, called
s late work lacked in the poetic, "So does it all, that was one of the hardest jobs in my early life—to
Clean er shaved and more grammatical folks I call Mister, and lay the tips of my fingers inside their
headline in the morning papers, and pass the time as comfortably as the law allows.— But for the others, my
THEE for my recitative, Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day declining, Thee
Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music, thy swinging lamps at night, Thy madly-whistled laughter
THEE for my recitative, Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day declining, Thee
Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music, thy swinging lamps at night, Thy madly-whistled laughter
boiling lobster, and wrote as follows to one of his daughters: "The sun-stroke is a staggerer; yet my
Were it not for others, would that my horn had been sounded—so easy, so delightful I may say, was the