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and satisfy me beyond all expectation, and I write without compliment or reserve to The Man, The American

This letter is addressed: Walt Whitman | Washington City | D.C. from Mr. Alcott Ans.

Emerson is just home from your city of steeples and tracks, but I have not spoken with him yet.

This letter is addressed: Walt Whitman | Washington City | D.C.

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

(vide Sunday Times , March 3rd, 1867) we called the attention of our readers to the works of an American

them, when the first feelings of dislike, which the violation of all received models had occasioned were

American life and institutions have impregnated Whitman's soul.

American air has saturated his lungs.

He is an American, Manhattanese, a democrat.

approximately half the poems found in the 1867 Leaves of Grass (poems that might have offended English readers were

Walt (Walter) Whitman, except the occasional brilliant scraps which English papers copy from their American

Rossetti insists that it must be taken as an altogether new poetry: as something as distinctively American

Is he American? Is he new? Is he rousing? Does he feel, and make me feel?"

That he is American in one sense we must admit.

He is American as certain forms of rowdyism and vulgarity, excrescences on American institutions, are

American.

But that he is American in the sense of being representative of American taste, intellect, or cultivation

Not a little ludicrous eulogy of this sort has been poured of late upon the American poet whose name

The brag, and bluster, and self-assertion of the man are American only; the fulsome 'cracking-up' of

pavements; Dweller in Mannahatta ‡ , city of ships, my city— or on southern savannas; Or a soldier camped

probably had in his pockets while we were talking.

that men and women were flexible, real, alive! that everything was alive!

instances, to shock many people, and contains specimens of every thing that is characteristic in the American

speaking, an abhorrence; but in this case several chance expressions which Walt Whitman permitted himself were

so very rude that his poems, as a whole, were deprived of that fair judgment which by rights belongs

Is he American? Is he new? Is he rousing? Does he feel, and make me feel?"

That he is American in one sense we must admit.

He is American as certain forms of rowdyism and vulgarity, excrescences on American institutions, are

American.

But that he is American in the sense of being representative of American taste, intellect, or cultivation

.* Some eight or ten years ago there was delivered to the world a volume of what were called poems by

In Walt Whitman we are called upon to recognise "the founder of American poetry rightly to be so called

By way of showing us what a superior animal is this American poet, Mr.

. . . of the questions of those recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities filled with

The performed American and Europe grow dim, retiring in shadow behind me; The unperformed, more gigantic

I gave our Friends the Misses Riley a letter of introduction to you when they were here last fall. have

She had two children from a previous marriage: Lewis and Eva Morrell, and she and Benton were the parents

Wilson named his first child "Walter Whitman Wilson," after the poet; their other children were Austin

When he left here he said he was going to New York as agent for a firm in this city & the next we hear

She had two children from a previous marriage: Lewis and Eva Morrell, and she and Benton were the parents

Wilson named his first child "Walter Whitman Wilson," after the poet; their other children were Austin

Gay Wilson Allen and Ed Folsom, (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995), 160–230.

October the 16/1868 Walter Whitman dear friend hearing you was in the city i have taken the liberty of

According to the 1860 U. S.

It is inexplicable that they cannot be exposed like the doors after which they were modeled upon the

The city of Dayton divides with Cleveland the reputation of being the most beautiful city in Ohio.

Mobs were frequent, news papers were torn out, Vallandigham's door was beaten in with muskets, his friends

went armed and people were shot dead.

Breakfast brought florid faced cockneys; at dinner there were Americans—ladies and men—making haste to

Your favor of 2 d inst. instant to me, and papers for others were duly received, and I am requested by

establishing on the new route a wagon‑road for the use of the Government to connect said Island with the cities

be informed— "how many Justices of the Peace are now in commission in each Ward respectively of the City

the Attorney General to furnish the House, "a statement of the amounts paid during each year since 1860

stands upon the clause quoted from the Act of 1853, and upon clauses in the Appropriation Acts of 1860

Nellie had two children, Lewis and Eva Morrell, from a previous marriage, and she and Benton were the

Wilson named his first child "Walter Whitman Wilson," after the poet; their other children were Austin

She had two children from a previous marriage: Lewis and Eva Morrell, and she and Benton were the parents

Wilson named his first child "Walter Whitman Wilson," after the poet; their other children were Austin

Henry discusses here): "When he left here he said he was going to New York as agent for a firm in this city

I tried several magazines, but they were already made up for their May numbers.

About half of the poems from the 1867 American edition of Leaves of Grass were removed for the British

Smith, Counsellor at Law, New York City. Will continue the Georgia for the term. Glad to do so. J.

Attorney and Counsellor, No. 26 Exchange Place, New York City Sir: In reply to your letter of the 22d

City, see p. 293 seq.

Gray, which were received with your letter of the 26th ult.,— and to state that the action of the commissioner

process in revenue cases, in Larue, Nelson, and Marion counties, Kentucky, deputies of the Marshal were

of a letter addressed to the Attorney General by him, with an affidavit of the deputy Marshals who were

If any printed briefs were filed in those cases, by the United States or the claimants, I should be glad

Evarts, Southmayd, & Choate, No. 52 Wall Street, New York City.

Sir: In reply to your letter of the 17th instant, touching the ownership of certain land near the city

James Russell Lowell had been the editor at the Atlantic Monthly when Whitman published there in 1860

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

James Russell Lowell had been the editor at the Atlantic Monthly when Whitman published there in 1860

True, the first copies imported into this country were at the order of the undersigned; but, that, it

Marshal Williams, of the Northern District of New York, from the owners of certain high wines —which were

Upon the whole, it is believed that if it were practicable for the Attorney General to give, immediately

I perceive that the questions from No. 14 to the last, were framed for answer by officials having a corps

the Committee—and I am accordingly instructed to proceed as if the subordinate force of this Office were

Baxter, Esq, formerly an active member of the bar of the Supreme Court, beginning, in this city, in 1856

Numerous applications were made, more or less formally—but all were rejected.

Some were supported by political influence. 17.

Edwards Pierrepont, 103 Fifth avenue, New York City, Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt

Box 6155, New York City.

New York City.

General, in relation to your private interests, as the tenant or occupant of a Lot of ground in the city

6th August, 1867, and 17th July, 1862, the condemnation could not extend beyond the interest of the city

You now represent, as Mayor of Memphis, that the interest of the city urgently requires the immediate

Attorney General Stanbery favorable to the claim of the city.

Counsellor at Law, New York City.

New York City.

regarded as part of the evidence, (in this case of more than ordinary importance,) the counsel mentioned were

President Central American Transit Co. 56 Exchange Place New York Sir: In reply to your letter of 28th

Laughlin and wife, covering the site selected for a Brand Mint at Dalles City, Oregon, which, with other

of the 15th instant complaining that a person named Rice, resident or doing business in Washington City

Attorney General for your services, and by a letter from this office of the 3d September 1867, you were

Counsellor at Law, Box 217, New York City.

copy of our letter of this date to the Secretary of War, respecting the Navy yard property of the city