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Do you ask me

  • Date: Between 1850 and 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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that of the early editions of Leaves of Grass, so it is possible that it was written in the 1850s or 1860s

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that of the early editions of Leaves of Grass, so it is possible that it was written in the 1850s or 1860s

for lect on Literature

  • Date: 1850s or 1860s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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oratory and goal of becoming a lecturer in the 1850s, though he also maintained these interests in the 1860s

June 9, 1863: "I think something of commencing a series of lectures & readings &c. through different cities

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oratory and goal of becoming a lecturer in the 1850s, though he also maintained these interests in the 1860s

June 9, 1863: "I think something of commencing a series of lectures & readings &c. through different cities

A talent for conversation

  • Date: Between 1840 and 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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suggests that "this sort of moralizing . . . belongs to [Whitman's] journalizing of the 1840s through the 1860s

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suggests that "this sort of moralizing . . . belongs to [Whitman's] journalizing of the 1840s through the 1860s

Locust whirring they come in July

  • Date: About the 1850s or 1860s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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is written with the hanging indentation characteristic of Whitman's poetry, it is unclear if these were

contributed to this piece of journalism or not, it seems likely that it was composed in the 1850s or 1860s

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is written with the hanging indentation characteristic of Whitman's poetry, it is unclear if these were

contributed to this piece of journalism or not, it seems likely that it was composed in the 1850s or 1860s

A procession without halt

  • Date: Between 1861 and 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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It is possible these lines were composed between 1861 and 1870, when Whitman had most reason to employ

Annotations Text:

It is possible these lines were composed between 1861 and 1870, when Whitman had most reason to employ

armies & navies pass on the surface

  • Date: About the 1850s or 1860s
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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depart— but we remain But we do not never depart This manuscript was probably written in the 1850s or 1860s

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This manuscript was probably written in the 1850s or 1860s.

Benjamin Helm Bristow to George S. Boutwell, 29 December 1870

  • Date: December 29, 1870
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
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instant, enclosing sundry papers relative to the seizure by certain parties of a piece of land in Denver City

S. to certain land in Denver City The following are responsible for particular readings or for changes

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 19 December 1870

  • Date: December 19, 1870
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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the volume consisted of four separately paginated books stitched together (an edited version of the 1860

Amos T. Akerman to James B. McKean, 13 December 1870

  • Date: December 13, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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McKean, Chief Justice, &c, Salt Lake City, Utah Terr.

Amos T. Akerman to Benjamin HelmWisdom, 12 December 1870

  • Date: December 12, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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Garden City Planing Mill Co. Chicago, Ill.

If it were an illegal exaction, as you suppose, your remedy is to sue him for the amount.

Amos T. Akerman to B. F. Potts, 10 December 1870

  • Date: December 10, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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Potts, Governor, &c, Virginia City, Montana T.

Amos T. Akerman to J. W. Douglass, 6 December 1870

  • Date: December 6, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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Moreover the estimates upon which the appropriations for the Department for the current year were made

Amos T. Akerman to T. H. Duval, 5 December 1870

  • Date: December 5, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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It is very unfortunate that the funds were not at hand for defraying the expenses of the term at Tyler

did not take his office in time to make a requisition for, and receive, the funds—and therefore none were

Amos T. Akerman to W. M. Hinman, 5 December 1870

  • Date: December 5, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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Hinman, Atlantic City Wyoming Terr.

Amos T. Akerman to Edwards Pierrepont, 29 November 1870

  • Date: November 29, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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Edwards Pierrepont, No. 16 Wall street, New York City.

Amos T. Akerman to Hamilton Fish, 28 November 1870

  • Date: November 28, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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The proper papers were prepared, and Davis was arrested.

City) On the 27th day of February, 1869, Attorney General Evarts addressed a letter of instructions to

On the 18th of May, 1869, Davis was arrested in the City of New York, upon a bench warrant from the United

Amos T. Akerman to Stanley Mathews, 28 November 1870

  • Date: November 28, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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Perry, Esq. were retained by the War Department to conduct these suits, on the part of the United States

Amos T. Akerman to P. H. Jones, 24 November 1870

  • Date: November 24, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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Jones, Postmaster, New York City. Sir: Mrs. Clara L.

Amos T. Akerman to George F. Edmunds, 22 November 1870

  • Date: November 22, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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—Your clients were purchasers at the Marshal's sale.

pursuance of estimates for the general Judicial expenses of the Government; and such payments as these were

Hence I am obliged to exercise the greatest circumspection in expenditure, in order to avoid exceeding

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 20 November 1870

  • Date: November 20, 1870
  • Creator(s): O'Connor, Ellen M. | Ellen M. O'Connor
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But more than all your poems, more than all you ever can write, are to me; yet they were very much to

It is the account of the death of those persons who were overtaken by the snow storm in the mountains

Amos T. Akerman to L. E. Carter, 19 November 1870

  • Date: November 19, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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If they were in violation of any law of the United States, the U. S.

Amos T. Akerman to John Smith, 19 November 1870

  • Date: November 19, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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If you were to send the money which these people ask, the probability is that you would receive by express

Such has been the experience of some individuals who were so unwise as to test the matter.

Amos T. Akerman to E. Harmon, 19 November 1870

  • Date: November 19, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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Your letter informed me that the prospects of a certain Senator, as a public man, were blasted by a proposition

Amos T. Akerman to Hamilton Fish, 15 November 1870

  • Date: November 15, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th instant, in relation to the steamer "Quaker City

(copy enc.) case of "Quaker City." see Ins. Book B. p.170.

Amos T. Akerman to Caleb Cushing, 10 November 1870

  • Date: November 10, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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Schley and yourself were employed to conduct the defence in the interest of the United States.

Schley, to whom the interests of the Government in the matter were confided by my predecessor, Mr.

Amos T. Akerman to Hamilton Fish, 19 October 1870

  • Date: October 19, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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Consul at Antwerp, reporting that the master of the American ship "Richard Robinson" left George Edwards

Amos T. Akerman to James B. McKean, 19 October 1870

  • Date: October 19, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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McKean, Chief Justice of Utah Territory, Salt Lake City.

Amos T. Akerman to A. B. Cornell, 19 October 1870

  • Date: October 19, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
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Hotel, New York City. Sir: In answer to your letter of the 30th ult.

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, [30] September [1870]

  • Date: September 30, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

The burial rites of Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (1801–1870) were held in New York on September 30,

the New York Times, "surpassed in their imposing character anything of the kind ever seen in this City

It was established in 1860.

Walt Whitman to John T. Trowbridge, 24 September [1870]

  • Date: September 24, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Though Trowbridge became familiar with Whitman's poetry in 1855, he did not meet Whitman until 1860 when

Coleman, "Trowbridge and O'Connor," American Literature, 23 [1951–52], 327).

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 23 September [1870]

  • Date: September 23, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Nash was an old resident of the city; Walt Whitman's December 5, 1873 letter to Doyle made mention of

The New York Times of September 15, 1870, reported that the Papal troops were evacuating various towns

The New York Times of September 15, 1870 reported that the Papal troops were evacuating various towns

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 9 September 1870

  • Date: September 9, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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This piece of correspondence is addressed, "Peter Doyle, | Conductor, | Office | Wash & Georgetown City

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 6 September 1870

  • Date: September 6, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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. & Georgetown City RR. Co. | Washington | D. C." It is postmarked: "New-York | Sep | 6 | (?)."

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 2 September 1870

  • Date: September 2, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

. & Georgetown City RR. Co. | Washington, | D. C."

The Poems of Walt Whitman

  • Date: September 1870
  • Creator(s): Howitt, William
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Whitman The poems of Walt Whitman have been much praised and wondered at in this country since they were

sometimes in that of Hiawatha , sometimes absolutely prosaic, but always original and audaciously American

In the most outward city pageant the open-eyed poet sees what the mere world-eyed mass never sees.

hive-bees, The North—the sweltering South—Assyria—the Hebrews—the Ancient of ancients, Vast, desolated cities—the

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 22 August 1870

  • Date: August 22, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Your letter of 13th (last Saturday week,) in which you said the orders were for you to go to work next

Matthew F. Pleasants to John W. McGill, 21 July 1870

  • Date: July 21, 1870
  • Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
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Clement were neither ordered nor authorized by this Department, they cannot be paid for by this Department

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, 20 July [1870]

  • Date: July 20, 1870
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

(see Alexander Stimson, Express Office Handbook and Directory [Bedford, Massachusetts: Applewood, 1860

The offices and delivery service were known by the name Westcott's Express.

The open American association was affiliated with the Brotherhood (later the Irish Republican Brotherhood

Both organizations were dedicated to the cause of an independent Irish Republic (see Ireland and the

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [5? July 1870]

  • Date: July 5?, 1870
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
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had six large ones taken i went alone i told the man i wanted very extraordinary ones fer for the were

Annotations Text:

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

Thomas Jefferson Whitman and family were in St.

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

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Schuyler Colfax, 2 July 1870

  • Date: July 2, 1870
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
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remanded to the general docket for further proceedings, either at or after the hearing thereof, but two were

Walt Whitman to Thomas Dixon, 30 June 1870

  • Date: June 30, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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Both your letters also reached me, and were cordially welcomed.

Annotations Text:

For Whitman's writings on Carlyle, see "Death of Thomas Carlyle" and "Carlyle from American Points of

W. A. Field to Cornelius Cole, 28 June 1870

  • Date: June 28, 1870
  • Creator(s): W. A. Field | Walt Whitman
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office, over and above his necessary office expenses, the necessary clerk-hire included, a sum not exceeding

Matthew F. Pleasants to Henry Whitall, 25 June 1870

  • Date: June 25, 1870
  • Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
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Henry Whitall, Esq. 10 East Fifth street, New York City.

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, 22 June [1870]

  • Date: June 22, 1870
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

He would later serve as the city engineer of Boston (1871–1880) and as chief engineer of the American

W. A. Field to J. J. Martin, 20 June 1870

  • Date: June 20, 1870
  • Creator(s): W. A. Field | Walt Whitman
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Akerman were reasonably acc't of A. T.

Akerman were rendered while he was United States Attorney.

If they were not, he can, of course, be paid a reasonable compensation out of any appropriation made

W. A. Field to J. W. Douglass, 18 June 1870

  • Date: June 18, 1870
  • Creator(s): W. A. Field | Walt Whitman
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These papers were sent to this office by the Secretary of the Treasury, accompanying his letter of the

W. A. Field to George S. Boutwell, 18 June 1870

  • Date: June 18, 1870
  • Creator(s): W. A. Field | Walt Whitman
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the "Cuba," her armament, &c, to clear for New York.,—and also that you authorize the issue of an American

Whether the vessel is entitled to an American register I have no knowledge, and express no opinion.

Matthew F. Pleasants to James Brooks, 17 June 1870

  • Date: June 17, 1870
  • Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
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application to this Office for a copy of the opinions of her father and has been informed that we were

Nellie Eyster to Walt Whitman, 14 June 1870

  • Date: June 14, 1870
  • Creator(s): Nellie Eyster
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off the platform of a Car, gave you a rose) I was compelled to many Car rides in my transit to "the City

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. | Washington City. | D.C. It is postmarked: | JUN | 14 | 0; CARRIER | JUN | 14 | 7 PM.

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, June 13 1870

  • Date: June 13, 1870
  • Creator(s): Charles Hyde | Charles L. Heyde
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Nor would enter upon such a life again, after it, were a thousand years of mortal existence promised

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