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

Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907) was an American abolitionist, minister, and frequent correspondent

I am unable to understand under what precise authority you acted, or were expected to act, in representing

Scudder, a respectable lawyer in New York City, well-known to me,— a copy of which I enclose.

propounding certain questions relative to the arrest of three colored British subjects at Key West, who were

William Fullerton, 11 Pine street New York City.

of your letter, I called your attention to this statement of the extent of the protection which you were

defendants, as made to you, had not furnished directly or indirectly the evidence for the indictments, and were

Samuel Blatchford, United States District Judge, New York City Sir: I have the honor to ask your attention

in the case of William Muller, now in prison under your sentence for contempt of court, and which were

that by an order made at the last term of the court, they stood assigned for argument to-day, and were

revenue system of the United States is concerned, would be subjected to forfeiture in favor of the American

Letcher, came to my hands only this morning, in consequence of my absence from the city.

that I shall be pleased to see you there, but can make no more definite appointment until I reach the city

Butler in the Superior Court of the city of Baltimore.

giving you this as an excuse for not comeing coming up to see you again before Leveing leaving the city

with a very severe Chill chill and the morning I was so sick that I could not think of staying in the city

My arm has come out in a sore were where one of the balls struck it it is so bad that it gives me much

Uncle if I were to send you an aplication application for a position in the Interior Department with

is going the rounds, to your great honor, and glory, nothing appealing to the esthetic aesthetic American

Your letters were sent by young Rowland.

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

Whitman in the New York Sonntagsblatt of November 1, 1868, mentioned Freiligrath's admiration for the American

Harlan apparently took offense at the copy of the 1860 Leaves of Grass which Whitman was revising and

Berg Collection of English and American Literature).

living in Washington, D.C., he published an eccentric three-volume Diary, a day-by-day account of the American

Is it your haunting voice as I heard it that last night we were together, chanting to me that divine

I am sorry I did not know you were going yesterday, because we could have arranged it all better than

Whitman in the New York Sonntagsblatt of November 1, 1868, mentioned Freiligrath's admiration for the American

During the 1860s, Price and her family, especially her daughter, Helen, were friends with Whitman and

In 1860 the Price family began to save Walt's letters.

Helen's reminiscences of Whitman were included in Richard Maurice Bucke's biography, Walt Whitman (Philadelphia

Taylor without making note of it, I have been unable to answer & besides the American News Co to whom

This letter is addressed: Hon Walt Whitman | Atty Genls Office, | Washington City, | D.C.

Benjamin Franklin Taylor (1822–1887) was an American poet who worked as a Western correspondent during

The American News Company was a New York magazine—and later comic book—distribution company founded in

The American News Company published John Burroughs's Notes on Walt Whitman, as Poet and Person in 1867

of West Hills, Long Island, in the state of New York, somewhere about thirty miles from the great American

If I were to suspect death I should die now: Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well suited to-

At the City Dead House in his "Leaves of Grass," we see him standing—gazing—yearning, in tenderest pity

youth, and through middle and through old age, how unfaltering, how affectionate and faithful they were

And, as it has been with those, so it is now and henceforth with this true American Poet Walt Whitman

Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780-1857) was a popular and influential French poet and songwriter whose lyrics were

reference to holly alludes to Burns's poem, "The Vision" (1786): "Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs/Were

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

(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

reprinted on September 5, 1868, in the Citizen; see Silver, "Thirty-One Letters of Walt Whitman," American

When I rose I said I was going up to my room to write to you & William—there were warm expressions from

This is upon the general subject of a needed American Literature, in the highest sense , & of our imaginative

Grier, "Walt Whitman, the Galaxy, and Democratic Vistas," American Literature, 23 (1951–1952), 332–350

Bowen, of this city, who will soon call upon you personally.

which he observed: "If we except 'Leaves of Grass' and Emerson's works, there is little as yet in American

to appear in the Atlantic Monthly; "Bardic Symbols" was published in the Atlantic Monthly of April 1860

See also Whitman's January 20, 1860, letter to James Russell Lowell and his March 2, 1860, letter to

I always enjoy seeing the city let loose, and on the rampage, as it was last night to the fullest extent

The whole city was lit up with torches. Cannons were fired all night in various parts of the city.

They were nearly an hour passing us, streaming both sides.

In the procession were all sorts of objects, models of ships, forty or fifty feet long, full-manned,

Fireworks were going off in every direction.

The article in the Herald was lengthy (almost a page and one-half) but factual and colorless: "It were

The previous Star arrived with your note of 23d, written just as you were going to see the Black Crook

The New York Clipper excerpt, "The Oldest American Sporting and Theatrical Journal."

The Sorrells were evidently brothers and drivers.

Then away late—lost my way—wandered over the city, & got home after one o'clock.

I go about quite a good deal—this is as handsome a city, as I ever saw.

Except in a few of the business streets, where the buildings are compact—in nine-tenths of the city,

I never saw such a prosperous looking city—but of course no grand public buildings like Washington.

C. from this city—arrived between 8 and 9 o'clock at night—found his carriage at the depot waiting for

I have since been round the city & suburbs considerably.

Channing, old acquaintances of mine in another part of the city.

It is on a high & pleasant hill at the side of the city, which it entirely overlooks.

From the window of my room, I can look down across the city, the river, and off miles upon miles in the

On the back of the second leaf of this draft letter Whitman drafted poetic lines that were published

Sammis wrote to Walt Whitman on April 6, 1860, and was mentioned in his April 15, 1863 letter to Louisa

The summary of the letter is drawn from an auction catalog put out by the American Art Association for

I tried several magazines, but they were already made up for their May numbers" (Horace Traubel, With

Our American politics, as you notice, are in an unusually effervescent condition—with perhaps (to the

probably get anywhere—most of the boarders have left—I and another young man are the only ones left—they were

in the Departments, & were discharged—Many have been discharged within the last two months, & many more

thoroughly waked up & full of fight —they have had the best of it, so far, in the speeches—some of them were

Newton Benedict were Walt Whitman's landlords at 468 M North, having replaced Juliet Grayson after her

Dearest mother, Well, it is a dark cloudy day, & raining hard—the darkies were to have a great celebration

Frederick Kelly, Charles McLaughlin, and Thomas Riley were listed as New York drivers.

appearance in our easy-going, imitative literature of an obstinate, tenacious, determined living American

My address is Attorney Gen's office, this city.

The Republican publishers of the Washington Daily Morning Chronicle in 1868 were offering to new subscribers

In a couple of weeks more, Congress will meet, and then the city will be quite lively.

As I told you in my previous letter, this city is quite small potatoes after living in New York.

City Hall; but the oceans of life & people, such as in N. Y. & the shipping &c, are lacking here.

Whitman deleted the next line of this draft—"I will think about the American agent too, & write"—his

The sale at the American Art Association on March 11, 1924, listed a one-page letter to Burroughs on

and was the second of Whitman's poems to appear in the magazine; "Bardic Symbols" was published in 1860

(For more on "Bardic Symbols," see Whitman's January 20, 1860 letter to James Russell Lowell and Whitman's

March 2, 1860 letter to the editor of the Atlantic Monthly.)

Y. with me, if it were possible, & then how much I should like having you with me.

This great city, with all its crowds, & splendor, & Broadway fashion, & women, & amusements, & the river

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

Certain poetical pieces of mine were arranged to appear soon in English magazine & I should like the

Grier, "Walt Whitman, the Galaxy, and Democratic Vistas," American Literature, 23 (1951–1952), 332–350

Grier, "Walt Whitman, the Galaxy, and Democratic Vistas," American Literature, 23 (1951–1952), 337.