Manuscript/Mixed Material Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, J. W. (James William); 1887, May-1891, Feb.
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Image 1 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … FeinbergWhitman General Correspondence Wallace J W May 1887 Feb 1891 Box 18 Folder 3
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 2 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … Dear Walt In no less familiar or colder terms can we bring ourselves to address you the most loved of friends though such a salutation from strangers to anyone but yourself would…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 3 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … other hand been long familiar with Emerson and reveres his memory But your teaching far more than Emersons has appealed to him as the fitting offset to and complement of theirs and…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 4 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 1 14 Eagle St Haulgh Bolton 21 May89 Dear Walt Whitman Your two Bolton friends and admirers J Johnston J W Wallace again unite in sending you their love and best wishes…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 5 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 3 moral right and the immortality of identity But your contributions have been far greater and of immeasurably wider scope than theirs inasmuch as they go along with a vastly increased intellectual…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 6 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 1 Anderton near Chorley Lancashire England 2 Jany 1890 Dear Walt Whitman This morning I received a letter from Dr Johnston enclosing a copy of a post card he received from you…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 7 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 3 might be entirely free from pain and suffering But doubtless there is good in these things too They are painful to flesh blood but their value must be all the greater…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 8 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 5 It is the time of our New Years holiday here As I have been in indifferent health for a long time past I am spending it quietly at home The weather…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 9 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 7 Last Sunday I received from Dr J the copy you sent him of The Engineering Record with your affectionate notice of your brother I have read it over several times tried…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 10 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 1 Anderton m Chorley 27 June 1890 Dear Walt Whitman Dr Johnston I yesterday received the papers and book you kindly sent us thank you from our inmost hearts We have read…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 11 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 3 especially proud to receive it as a present from you And now we have a further still greater favour to ask from you Dr Johnston has been unwell of late and…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 12 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 5 upon Mr Rome your old friend publisher a distant relative of his own Then a flying visit to a relative in Canada before returning This briefly is his programme to take…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 13 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 1 Anderton Chorley England 18 Aug 1890 Dear Walt Whitman Dr Johnston arrived at home on Friday the 8th inst as he will have told you On Monday the 11th my birthday…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 14 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 2 by him for a copy as arranged with you I cannot tell you how much I prize them especially the latter Carlyles heart was not stirred more deeply by the friendship…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 15 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 4 But I never dreamed of receiving such returns Fitly indeed and with a full heart may I hang up your picture as that of the tenderest lover the friend the lovers…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 16 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 6 your friendship and to help on so far as I can your influence and work It awakens in me an old purpose which circumstances have for the last few years thwarted…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 17 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 8 clearness and emphasis But many untoward circumstances partly resulting in including mental and nervous break down exhaustion have prevented me from attempting this and I see no prospect now of carrying…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 18 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 10 tastes and who care little for any authors except Shakspere and Burns but who love manly and heroic qualities outdoor life boating sailing engineering c and who have a deep inarticulate…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 19 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 12 have recovered from your condition two years ago May you long enjoy health happiness halcyon days and the devotion of increasing numbers of loving friends Dr Johnstons friends are all very…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 20 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 14 I had been rereading his letters in Dr Buckes book with renewed pleasure in his brilliant and perfervid championship of your cause and I almost feel now as though I too…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 21 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … by W Scott which I usually carry is much too incomplete I dont know what the carriage will be but I will enclose money order for 22 which I trust will cover…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 22 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … Anderton near Chorley Lancashire England 28 August 1890 Dear Walt Whitman I received the Camden Post on Tuesday morning the 26th inst and in the evening of the same day I received…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 23 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … the letter to The Critic It suggests some points I should like to write about but I must only note one and that is your remark that you are still rejected by…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 24 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … advent of a completely intelligent loving recognition response That you are still in a great degree despised rejected of men is however only the price you pay for your greatness and corresponds…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 25 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … Anderton m Chorley Lancashire England 5th Septbr 1890 Dear Walt Whitman It is impossible for me to write much now but I want to get a letter off by this mail in…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 26 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … value to me as a gift from yourself I find its intrinsic merit very great indeed It has grown upon me very much and authenticates itself to my mind more and more…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 27 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … to have a new frame made like the old one plain oak 3 wide and to use the old frame for something else Dr Johnston too has had the the portrait you…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 28 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … Anderton near Chorley Lancashire England 11 Septbr 1890 Dear Walt Whitman I sent a cable message to you this after asking you to send me another copy of the pocket book edition…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 29 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … a copy to one of our number Revd FRC Hutton on his birthday the 25th inst He has been a very useful member of our little Society of friends and is very…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 30 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … him with the new edition I was asked at noon to wire for one so that it may come in time You will get this letter about the same date and we…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 31 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … PPS 12 Sept br I was very much pleased to receive your kind post card this morning thank you heartily I am sorry to learn that you were suffering from the grip…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 32 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … I see from The Conservator that you have a new volume in preparation of which I presume that the slips you have sent Dr J are proofs Will you please to enrol…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 33 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 1 Anderton near Chorley Lancashire England 19 Sept 1890 Dear Walt Whitman Your kind postcard of the 8th inst and papers just to hand My cordial thanks to you Dr Johnston has…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 34 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 2 to hear his account of his visit to you and to West Hills It was a perfect September day warm calm and bright with a slight pensive autumnal haze veiling the…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 35 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 3 It brought you very near to us all and every heart was stirred as the Dr told us of your great kindness to him and of your kind messages to us…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 36 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 5 I am just beginning my holidays long needed your book accompanies me in all my rambles I am spending the first few days at home and taking solitary walks in the…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 37 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 6 and with my own soul How near and dear you are to me I cannot tell you But I am sure that no author before ever appealed to such depths of…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 38 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … 7 springing from divine depths the latest modern revelation of the same Spirit I will enclose a cutting from last weeks paper giving another instance at a place a few miles from…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 39 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … Anderton near Chorley Lancashire England 15 Oct br 1890 Dear Walt Whitman Your kind postcard of Sept 30th recd on the 11th inst and the pocket book copy of L of G…
- Date: 1887-05
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Image 40 of Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection: General Correspondence, 1841-1892; Wallace, … I spent 3 days in Yorkshire last week so ending my holiday I am by no means so much recruited in health as I expected but hope to improve gradually as time…
- Date: 1887-05