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Sir: I beg leave to enclose a determination and order respecting the claim of Nott & Company, American

What that compensation would be for such services as were rendered by Mr.

Samuel Blatchford, Judge United States Court, New York City. Sir: The case of John H.

attention to that point, as doubtless at the time of the conviction the grounds of this discrimination were

New York City. Dear Sir: The record in the Rosenberg case was not printed until Monday last.

No. 61 Wall street New York City Sir: I enclose a duplicate original of the determination & order which

While I would be very happy to give my individual opinion upon this subject, if I were possessed of the

Western District of Pennsylvania relative to the case of Arthur Ballou, and the instructions which were

City The subject to which your letter refers had received my official attention some days since, and

directed the suspension, delay, or discontinuance of proceedings against parties prosecuted in New York City

The prosecutions referred to in my letters were for frauds upon Internal Revenue, as I then understood

Fullerton to ascertain whether the charges were to be duly submitted, or would be withdrawn.

Attorney Courtney— and these, and these alone, were the reasons for my direction of the suspension or

Murray were immediately advised thereof, and their presence required to meet these charges.

fines in each case; & who of such persons, have been pardoned by the President, & when such pardons were

resolution is, as to "who of such persons have been pardoned by the President, & when such pardons were

Gen. are replies, were returned with those replies to the Interior Dept. or the counsel by whom they

were transmitted.

Dear William O'Connor: As you were interested in Mr.

. | Washington City." Its postmark is indecipherable.

Involved according to Whitman were the "venom, jealousies, opacities…[of] a woman" (3:235–236), probably

James Parton (1822–1891) was a journalist and, according to the Dictionary of American Biography, "the

Allen, The Solitary Singer (New York: Macmillan Co., 1955), 209–210; Frank Luther Mott, A History of American

afternoon & evening in the cars—felt quite well—enjoyed my lunch, the cold tea, &c—got in at Jersey City

Philp and Solomon were Washington booksellers.

his weight well toward 190 pounds"; reprinted in Emory Holloway, "Whitman as His Own Press Agent," American

. & then ramble & ride around the City, awhile, as I think we are going to have a fine evening & moonlight

Walt Whitman's poems to appear in the Atlantic Monthly; "Bardic Symbols" was published on April 5, 1860

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

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

inserted a blurb about the poem in the Washington Star of January 18, 1869; see Emory Holloway, American

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

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

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

He speaks it over and over, manipulating my body unconciouslyunconsciously, as it were, with bountiful

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

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

publicity blurb in the Washington Sunday Chronicle on May 9, 1869 (reprinted by Emory Holloway, American

WALT WHITMAN, THE AMERICAN POET OF DEMOCRACY.

that a new poet had arisen in America, and that much difference of opinion existed as to his merits, were

had in his pocket while we were talking.

These were all inarticulate poets, and he interpreted them.

Walt Whitman, The American Poet of Democracy

The New York City Directory lists Pendleton at this address starting in 1869, and advertisements for

Craig's Daguerreian Registry as having a studio at 5 Chatham Square in New York from 1857 through 1860

his imprint with the Chatham Square address, suggesting he may have been there through most of the 1860s

Robinson, of Cook Co., Ill., which you were pleased to refer to this office on the 4th inst.

If they can now be supplied by you at rates not exceeding those mentioned on said list, you are requested

New York City.

Phelps will be in New York City by the time this letter reaches you, and is of counsel in the case against

If you can now supply the books mentioned on this list at rates not exceeding the prices there intimated

I sent to the Attorney of the United States at New York City, a telegram, of which a copy is enclosed

I have today received a telegram from the Marshal of the United States at New York City, of which a copy

received your letter of the 22d inst., and should be happy to answer the questions asked in it, if it were

suits, and of all liability on account of the violations of law, on which these proceedings in Court were

The charge on which these suits are brought, is, that the gloves were entered at Boston by means of invoices

in which they were fraudulently undervalued.

—The Depositions were sent by the Consul to the Department of State with his bills of fees attached.

Sir: By telegram received last night from Marshal Barlow of New York City, I am informed that the steamer

No. 7 Warren street, New York City Sir: I have received your letter of the 22d of December, enclosing

preferred to exercise his judgment upon the reasonableness of the amount charged, after the services were

Talbot said to me that there were reasons why he could not properly argue the case before the Court of

I do not think that they were much impressed by the historical view of the subject The following are

April 18th 1869 Wm O'Connor Esq My dear friend The package of "Reports" and afterwards your letter were

for a week or so back—but I think it is the weather and then we are not so happily situated as we were

both for his own sake and for George's—It would be too bad to have any change in the Water Dept—The city

some 30 to 40 pages each, unbound—but give what of all things is the best for me—how certain works were

May 1 was moving day in Brooklyn, a time when leases were given up or renewed.

got a place in a boarding house in Pine street—I had'nt been there more than an hour before I saw we were

is coming up all the time that keeps me busy—I was nearly a whole week in writing a report to the City

Probably Jeff's derogatory name for the journalists who claimed that the works were being constructed

on unstable soil and would soon collapse (Proceedings of the City Council, March 16, 1869, pp. 373-75

Given Jeff's racial attitudes in general, it is possible that he felt Grant's policies were misguided

In response to the allegations printed in the local press, the city council on March 12 requested the

Board of Water Commissioners to determine whether the waterworks were defective.

Davis to day who is now in Brooklyn—he says he took dinner on Sunday with Mother and George—that they were

Whitman's essays "Democracy" and "Personalism" were published in the Galaxy in December 1867 and May

These three essays were later combined in Democratic Vistas, which was first published in 1871 in New

This manuscript was probably written in the mid- to late 1860s shortly before publication in 1869.

This manuscript was probably written in the mid- to late 1860s shortly before publication in 1869.; These

He sees in the American future the grandest realisation of centuries of idealism. . . .

He is the clear forerunner of the great American poet, long longed for, often prophesied."

As if it were necessary to trot back generation after generation to the Eastern records!"

"I will report all heroism from an American point of view." "America always!

I assert that all past days were what they should have been.

In 1860 and 1867, it appeared as "Leaves of Grass" No. 11 and No. 3, respectively.

of the various editions, it is most likely that Brookfield quotes from the third edition of Leaves (1860

Bent Claims, at a total expense not exceeding three hundred dollars. Very Respectfully yours, M. F.

Since the receipt of these books it has been discovered that some of the volumes were already on our

letter of the 4th ult., returning the list previously transmitted to you from this office, on which were

your attention to the fact that in your schedule of prices furnished this Office the Georgia Reports were

will forward this office the following books: Supplements of General Statutes of Massachusetts, from 1860

directed by the Attorney General to enclose you the accompanying list comprising a number of Vols. of American