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Some pieces which were pasted together have been lifted and photographed separately to show lines obscured

The lines were probably drafted for the Centennial of 1876. What the word of power unbroken

3116yal.00324xxx.00861Real American Red Men1870–1872prose2 leaveshandwritten; Draft of a prose piece

Real American Red Men

Two lines from this manuscript, "At vacancy with Nature / Acceptive and at ease," were used as part of

Portions of this essay were revised and used in Memoranda During the War (1875–1876) before appearing

it must be distinctly admitted…[L. of G.]about 1876prose1 leafhandwritten; These fragmentary notes were

"Nat Bloom," the name that appears on the recto of the third leaf, was a New York City acquaintance of

The lines from the poem are cleanly written, suggesting that they were meant to serve as an epigraph

These linegroups were added in 1871 to a poem first published as Hymn of Dead Soldiers in Drum-Taps (

is the only known surviving photograph taken by Fredricks, though Traubel’s comments suggest there were

1870s Whitman is wearing the same shirt as in two other photographs (zzz.00027 and zzz.00028) that were

one used in Brady's Washington studio; the "Lincoln chair" was given to Brady by the President in 1860

It had been Lincoln's chair in the House of Representatives before new chairs were installed in 1857,

applicants for copies of official opinions to the Heads of the Executive Departments to whom they were

requested to supply this Office with the following State Reports, provided it can be done at rates not exceeding

I know I am glad that your selections were put into my hands first, so that I was lifted up by them to

that the libel was filed upon an affidavit of the Spanish Consul at Charleston, before any directions were

that the reason the Marshal was obliged to put the crew and passengers on shore, was because they were

The Moore family's intended move is mentioned briefly in Thomas Jefferson Whitman's April 16, 1860 letter

relating to this reservation, but that there is such a suit pending in the Court of Claims in this city

Benton City, Mo.

opinions upon some of the questions—but not in such a formal and official manner that I understood they were

have only mentioned the foregoing from an uncertainty whether the President and the Secretary of War were

Boisé City, Idaho T.

Reports, and Vol. 28, Texas Reports, both of which we already have, and neither of which, I think, were

She and Jeff had two daughters, Manahatta "Hattie" (1860–1886) and Jessie Louisa "Sis" (b. 1863).

Abby Price and her family, especially her daughter Helen, were friends with Walt Whitman and his mother

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

At your request, these papers were sent to the U. S.

New York City Feb 8 th 1870 "Walt Whitman" O! Beloved Soul, so great! so beautiful!

A kiss from the lips of one born beneath a tropical sun a daughter of the Crescent City.

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

ld like to see you very much it has been a long while since I wh think Visit to Washington when you were

Marshal at New York City to you, and a letter of H. W.

Esq. who was employed as special counsel in the case, and asked him his opinion, whether the charges were

Phelps on the bill that three gentlemen were employed to do this printing by Judge Person, one of the

You will please accept my thanks for the manner in which those services were rendered.

telegraphed to him that there ought to be a Commissioner of the United States Court resident in that city

I was not aware, and the Solicitor was not aware, that there was any Commissioner in that city, and we

add that the reason for telegraphing instead of writing was, that the Solicitor understood that you were

then in Nashville, and were about to leave the city.

She and Jeff had two daughters, Manahatta "Hattie" (1860–1886) and Jessie Louisa "Sis" (b. 1863).

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

American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1880–1908).

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

He is the American Consul for this place so you see there's no knowing how it may turn out, I am having

As you represent that your services in the case were retained by that Department, the Attorney General

Gentlemen: The books mentioned in your letter of yesterday's date as having been forwarded by express were

Though their correspondence slowed in the middle of their lives, the brothers were brought together again

represented that the facts on which the application for an amendment of the agreed statement was made, were

Maynard to me enclosing these papers states that Thomas Barr was in jail in the city of Detroit, in June

his assistant to Windsor, Canada, to institute proceedings for his extradition—that two examinations were

the matter of certain suspended land entries, by Hiram Hayes, at the Bayfield, Wis. district, which were

Pratt, and which you were pleased to refer to me on the 8th inst., respecting the conveyance of certain

and deeds given therefore—and that, when the sales transpired, neither the vendor nor the purchasers were

The Romes were old Brooklyn friends.

his salary he told me to give matty the rent but as we have a new comer down stairs a girl baby they were

O'Connor, but those plans were scuttled (see Mattie's March 1, 1870 letter to Walt Whitman [Waldron,

The portion of the letter in the Yale Collection of American Letter is incomplete and lacks a closing

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

Louis Water Works, and served as the second president of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1880–1908).

These services were rendered under the sanction of the War Department, given in a letter trans. bill

18th 1870 My Dear Mother Mattie arrived all right on Wednesday abt about 3 ocl —in the afternoon—We were

These plans were not acted upon (Waldron, 70).

Box 6732, New York City.

Brown family began boarding in the same house as the Whitmans on Portland Avenue, Brooklyn in April 1860

in regard to an opinion of the Attorney General in reference to the bounty payable to soldiers who were

made to the State Department, or the Treasury Department, by one of which the firm of Person & French were

But as the firm were employed as counsel, I should suppose that any bill for their services must be collected

to 1871 (William Schroeder, "Dispensaries, Hospitals, and Medical Societies of Kings County, 1830–1860

Barlow, Esq. 5 Beekman street, New York City.

Wilson, though it may be in this city.