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cities, and fit to have for his background and accessories their streaming populations and ample and

The "North American Review," unquestionably the highest organ of American letters, in the course of a

They are certainly filled with an American spirit, breathe the American air, and assert the fullest American

During those years, Washington was a city in whose unbuilt places and around whose borders were thickly

all sufferers, they were all men.

Scenes in Another World (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1858; rev. ed. 1870); see National Cyclopaedia of American

in New York in 1849 and served as sanitary engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Health of New York City

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

career as chief engineer of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1880–1908).

Probably either John or Robert McNamee, both of whom were engineers.

Probably David Brower, an engineer who worked for the city.

have heard my Father speak a few days ago of your Leaves of Grass and says it is well suited to the American

I too, dear friend, would be so glad if we were near each other where we could have each other's company

He went from Harewood hospital here, to Brooklyn, to the City Hospital there—he had a terrific operation

I shall be pleased to see you when in our city, and in anything that I can contribute to your happiness

. | New York City. It is postmarked: Washington | Dec | 11 | D. C.

James Monroe was the American consul at Rio de Janeiro from 1863 to 1869, and was later, after service

It seems as if things were going to brighten up about "Leaves of Grass."

Thomson 242 Canal St New York City. Hugh B. Thomson to Walt Whitman, 5 December 1866

We carried a basket of grub, built a fire & made tea, &c—had a first rate, quiet time—the Falls were

WALT WHITMAN as distinctively and transcendently the representative Poe of America-as holding to American

: Where the city stands with the brawniest breed of orators and bards; Where the city stands that is

; Where the city of the healthiest fathers stands Where the city of the best-bodied mothers stands; There

the grand city stands.

The thought of the comradeship of Americans is never absent from the poet's pages.

Pericles (c. 495-429 BC) advanced both Athenian democracy and the Athenian empire, ushering in the city's

here, from parents the same and their parents' parents the same," and hence, physiologically, is American

To a small job printing office in that city belongs the honor, if such, of bringing it to light.

Some three score copies were deposited in a neighboring book store, and as many more in another book

A demand arose, and before many months all the copies of the thin quarto were sold.

issued in Boston as a 12mo. of 456 pages, in 1860.

On April 19, 1861, Thayer & Eldridge informed Whitman that the plates of Leaves of Grass were now in

adding stroke after stroke, part after part, as serenely and good-naturedly as if the rest of mankind were

been building so long is a man—a new democratic man, whom he believes to be typical of the future American

Song of the Broad Axe' and 'To Working-Men' comprise most of those poems which, in other editions, were

up a couple of small houses, to be worth about $2000 a piece, in some good spot, outer part of the city—one

Marshal for California, to which you were recently appointed by the President.

City. Sir: I enclose a copy of a letter relative to the steamer "Pearl."

. | New York City. It is postmarked: Washington D. C. | Oct | 27 | Free.

Washington City Oct. 26. 1866. To | Hon.

was tried on an indictment of [please notice] Seven Counts ; the 1st charged him with, on Oct. 22, 1860

The evidence proved that on Oct. 22, 1860, the Falmouth Bank sent through the mail a package containing

Circuit Court, sitting in Louisiana, a number of adjudications were had upon libels in rem against steamboats

documents to show that in nine other cases, involving the same material issues, decrees of restitution were

acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th inst., & to say in reply, that full instructions were

the volume consisted of four separately paginated books stitched together (an edited version of the 1860

T HERE is as yet nothing distinctive in American literature except its tendency.

discovered an American poet.

probably had in his pockets whilst we were talking.

These were all inarticulate poets, and he interpreted them.

soldiers who were in the hospitals.

Stitt, and Andrew Kerr were employees in the office; see Whitman's letters to Kerr of August 25, 1866

Metropolitan Hotel New York City.

It is particularly stated that a number of soldiers who were under the command of W. W.

Attorney, New York City Sir: I am directed by the Attorney General to say, in reply to your letter of

patrols marching around the streets—no more great racks of hospitals—I get along well enough in this city

O how much comfort it would be to me, if things were so that we could have each other's society—for I

for a military force to seize certain boxes of arms & accoutrements then in the possession of the American

Donnelley, Buffalo, New York, were seized and stored in Fort Porter, Buffalo, for safe keeping—where

property, & the order of the Secretary of War, an order requesting the delivery of the property to the American

Y. authority for the re-delivery to the American Express Company of the arms & accoutrements seized in

Chapin of 24 Beekman Street, New York City, set the type for the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass; see

Direct to me at 279 East 55th street, New York City.

Remember 279 East 55th street, New York City. I have been well & hearty.

and Poets (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1877), Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (New York: American

Eldridge and later John Burroughs, were to be his close associates during the early Washington years.

O'Connor (1832–1889) was the author of Harrington, an abolition novel published by Thayer & Eldridge in 1860

the most important, of the adulators who divided people arbitrarily into two categories: those who were

for and those who were against Walt Whitman.

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

New York City August 25, 1866.

New York City —I expect to return about 12th Sept.

Price, | 279 East 55th street, | New York City. It is postmarked: Washington D. C. | Aug | 4.

Eldridge and later John Burroughs, were to be his close associates during the early Washington years.

O'Connor (1832–1889) was the author of Harrington, an abolition novel published by Thayer & Eldridge in 1860

the most important, of the adulators who divided people arbitrarily into two categories: those who were

for and those who were against Walt Whitman.

. | New York City. It is postmarked: Washington | Jul | 30 | Free.

and Poets (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1877), Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (New York: American

Eldridge and later John Burroughs, were to be his close associates during the early Washington years.

O'Connor (1832–1889) was the author of Harrington, an abolition novel published by Thayer & Eldridge in 1860

the most important, of the adulators who divided people arbitrarily into two categories: those who were

for and those who were against Walt Whitman.

After the war, all the hospitals except this one were converted to other purposes.

Davis eventually became city engineer of Boston (1871–1880) and later served as chief engineer of the

American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1880–1908).

Davis eventually became city engineer of Boston (1871–1880) and later served as chief engineer of the

American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1880–1908).

"Nelly" O'Connor, who, with Charles Eldridge and later John Burroughs, were to be his close associates

I wish you were nearer, that we might be together frequently.

, his "Diary," printed last winter—his funeral was simple but very impressive—all the big radicals were

Count referred in his entry for April 18, 1864, to Whitman as among "the most original and genuine American

LeRoy Fischer, Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 36 (1949–1950), 415–434, and Dictionary of American

Whitman apparently wrote again on February 13, and Mason replied from City Point on February 16 that

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

this difficulty has arisen from the miserable teachings of her mother, who enjoined upon her, when we were

Dibble for the property you occupy in the city of Buffalo.

Harlow was their Capt. he was mortally wounded the 30th of Sept. 1864 the same day that Henry was there were

Clarence was the only one that saw him after he was wounded the rebs nearly surrounded them they were

Clarence stopped with him a minute or two the rebs were so near he had to leave him.

come to this Department, deemed reliable, to the effect that operations are being carried on in the city

On the same day there appeared in one of the public papers of the city of Buffalo, an advertisement to

It is also understood here that there are numerous & strong associations in the city of Buffalo, having

their common lead in one of the police of the city who is in full sympathy with them, their object being

An auctioneer in the city of Buffalo, it is said, received, between the 16th and 20th ult. twenty seven

I am, Sir, respectfully, James Speed, Attorney General Letters exactly as above, were also sent this

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

that certain features of that are not introduced in this; for we are compelled to confess that there were

And it was somewhat amusing, too, to discover certain little myths which were afloat from bed to bed

before and after his appointment and dismissal from a clerkship at Washington, he sought in his native city

"The Lady of this teeming and turbulent city" calls forth her children as bees are called from the hive

"I see a sad procession, And I hear the sound of coming full-keyed bugles; All the channels of the city

John Esten Cooke (1830-1886) was an American novelist noted for his grandiloquent writings centered on

Possibly referring to Marion Lumpkin Cobb, wife of Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (1823-1862), an American

John Esten Cooke (1830-1886) was an American novelist noted for his grandiloquent writings centered on

Virginia.; Possibly referring to Marion Lumpkin Cobb, wife of Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (1823-1862), an American