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These plates were included in a lot of plates sometime ago mortgaged to Isaac Tower for money we raised

Eldridge, the Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860

American Edition 5 (1891), 11.

Hensley "I dream'd a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth

, I dreamed that was the new city of friends."

Thayer Thayer & Eldridge | June 11 1860 William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 5 June 1860

Eldridge, the Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860

Thayer & Eldridge had reprinted his novel Amy Lee early in 1860.

The review Thayer and Eldridge sent to Whitman appeared in the Boston Banner of Light (2 June 1860).

The review of Leaves of Grass that appeared in the New-York Saturday Press on June 2, 1860, was signed

For Calvin Beach's review of the 1860 Leaves of Grass see "Leaves of Grass."

Eldridge, the Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860

At the time, Thayer and Eldridge were already advertising a new volume of Whitman's poetry entitled The

Banks were distrustful. No one knew how the war would end.

All book firms were 'shaky.' . . .

Anti-slavery people were interested in keeping [Thayer and Eldridge] up, but they were forced to call

Honered Honored Friend— Was beginning to fear you were ill.

New York Tribune to say you were in Canada (not Camden) and intended to remain North some time: then

Even in his younger days, there is the best of evidence that his habits were correct, and his conversation

The "Amens" were uttered by a person immediately to the left of Mr.

Another: Not long since the Inquirer of this city published a lengthy article on cremation, giving interviews

elderly, full-bearded, gray haired artist has for years been frequenting the barrooms and hotels of this city

the REVIEW OF REVIEWS —a copy of which I send you herewith —without any extract from the "North American

The parcel of "North Americans" which ought to have reached London, was lost between Liverpool and London

Whitman's essay "Old Poets" was first published in the November 1890 issue of The North American Review

The North American Review was the first literary magazine in the United States.

I am anxious to put in the second number a similar series of letters from the Leading Americans and I

Brooks, Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

Gents: Enclosed I send you Nine, (9) dollars, for subscription to the "Daily American" from Jan'y 28,

Walter Whitman Washington City, D.C. William Stansberry to Walt Whitman, 9 December 1873

Later the decree was altered, and O'Reilly was sent to Australia, where he escaped on an American whaler

Boston friends were raising money to buy a summer cottage they hoped would improve Whitman's failing

If this humbug government were worth a copper spangle it wd would have settled a handsome pension on

North American Review.

I think (though I am not sure) that an article on it will appear in The American soon, by a couple of

But I have never wondered that you were caviare to the general; because, although I see clearly that

I want all the chief American & especially the English poets to have copies.

his time, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was both a highly popular and highly respected American

When Whitman met Longfellow in June 1876, he was unimpressed: "His manners were stately, conventional—all

I set up every stick of it mesilf indade , & corrected my proofs ( wh. which I'll have you know) were

Later the decree was altered, and O'Reilly was sent to Australia, where he escaped on an American whaler

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

Traubel left behind enough manuscripts for six more volumes of the series, the final two of which were

Bronson Howard (1842–1908) was an American journalist and dramatist, whose work earned him membership

in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Stuart Robson (1836–1903) and William Henry Crane (1845–1928) were American comedic actors who formed

Productions such as Our Bachelors (1878) and Sharps and Flats (1880) were so successful that Bronson

After a second trip to the United States in the summer of 1886, Arnold commented on American life being

for our cranky friend Johnson the planter His insinuations as to assumed peccadiloes of yrs yours were

Though, supposing all the things he mentioned were so, (and doubtless some of them were in a measure)

a long letter fr Charley Eldridge, wh. which I incorporated partly in the Bibiliog. under head of "1860

He says he finds a few vols. volumes of the fraudulent 1860 ed. edition in Los Angeles.

Tyrrell, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and many of the contributors were present and former Trinity

was one half of the Boston-based abolitionist publishing firm Thayer and Eldridge, who issued the 1860

Joseph Edgar Chamberlin (1851–1935) was an American journalist for the Boston Transcript and the Youth's

You were partially right in thinking me connected with a large printing establishment.

" presumably Lincoln's first campaign song, and served as correspondent of the New York World from 1860

He published many volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were

(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885) and A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to

See The American-German Review 13 (December 1946), 27–30.

Perhaps Lilian Whiting (1859–1942), an American writer and journalist.

I am going to address the American People (not the damned & twice damned literary & clerical rascals)

He was the author of many books and articles on German-American affairs and was superintendent of German

See The American-German Review 13 (December 1946), 27–30.

Fanny Raymond Ritter (c.1835–1891) was an American musician, writer, historian, and the wife of the German-American

The Ritters were friends of William Sloane Kennedy and William D.

During the late 1850s and throughout the 1860s, Abby and Helen were friends with Whitman and his mother

In 1860, when he was tried in Boston because of his refusal to testify before a committee of the U.S.

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

Southwestern Archaeological Expedition took place between 1886 and 1894 with the goal of unearthing Native American

William Dean Howells (1837–1920) was the novelist and "Dean of American Letters" who wrote The Rise of

Had a good letter from Sidney Morse, & was (as tickled as Rhys says you were) over his fine old mother

In 1860, when he was tried in Boston because of his refusal to testify before a committee of the U.S.

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

Moncure Conway (1832–1907) was a Unitarian minister who lived in England from the 1860s until 1885, where

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

I tell you I wish the world were full of such men.

David McKay (1860–1918) took over Philadelphia-based publisher Rees Welsh's bookselling and publishing

Hamlin Garland (1860–1940) was an American novelist and autobiographer, known especially for his works

about the hardships of farm life in the American Midwest.

In 1860, when he was tried in Boston because of his refusal to testify before a committee of the U.S.

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

How I wish you were going to live 50 yrs years more.

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

They were real pretty, unusually good, in some respects.

Her novels were extremely popular, and Whitman particularly loved Consuelo and The Countess of Rudolstadt

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American poet and essayist who began the Transcendentalist movement

In 1860, when he was tried in Boston because of his refusal to testify before a committee of the U.S.

In 1860, when he was tried in Boston because of his refusal to testify before a committee of the U.S.

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

Traubel left behind enough manuscripts for six more volumes of the series, the final two of which were

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

Traubel left behind enough manuscripts for six more volumes of the series, the final two of which were

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

Traubel left behind enough manuscripts for six more volumes of the series, the final two of which were

Later the decree was altered, and O'Reilly was sent to Australia, where he escaped on an American whaler

years of shoulder to shoulder work with the (to me) entirely hitherto unfamiliar class of skilled city

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

Traubel left behind enough manuscripts for six more volumes of the series, the final two of which were

We were very sorry for yr sake: the damage done is irreparable I suppose.

We were both of us—you & I—too careless.

" presumably Lincoln's first campaign song, and served as correspondent of the New York World from 1860

He published many volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were

(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885) and A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to

William Dean Howells (1837–1920) was an American realist novelist and literary critic, serving the staff

of the New York Nation and Harper's Magazine during the mid 1860s.

1871 to 1880, he was one of the foremost critics in New York, and used his influence to support American

In an Ashtabula Sentinel review of the 1860 edition Leaves of Grass, Howells wrote, "If he is indeed

Three or four golden robins were clipping about thro' the air, singing & chirping.

off their friendship in late 1872 over Reconstruction policies with regard to emancipated African Americans

Wife and I read the newspaper notice as we were coming up the hill in the evening, we said Hurrah!

It has a Boston, Mass. postmark in which only the city and the year of 1889 are legible.

If it were not so very great it wd make me envious!

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

Traubel left behind enough manuscripts for six more volumes of the series, the final two of which were

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

Wyatt Eaton (1849–1896), an American portrait and figure painter, organized the Society of American Artists

Only 300 copies were printed, and Whitman signed the title page of each one.

The notes and addresses that were delivered at Whitman's seventieth birthday celebration in Camden, on

May 31, 1889, were collected and edited by Horace Traubel.

signal & wide-spread horror of the kind ever known in this country—curious that at this very hour, we were

off their friendship in late 1872 over Reconstruction policies with regard to emancipated African Americans