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kings removed; I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;) —Never were

the scaffold;) —I would sing in my copious song your census returns of The States, The tables of population

A WOMAN waits for me—she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking, if sex were lacking,

or if the mois- ture moisture of the right man were lacking.

that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception; I assert that all past days were

what they should have been; And that they could no-how have been better than they were, And that to-day

The Commune governed the city from March 18 to May 28, 1871, at which time the French army retook the

city and prosecuted those who had supported the Commune.

"Nelly" O'Connor (1830–1913), who, with Charles Eldridge and later John Burroughs, were to be his close

It happens that I have lately been compiling a of selections from American Poets, & I had had to use

—I don't well know when my American Selection will be out: my work on it is done, & the rest depends

Octr., & is to dine with us tomorrow: I like his frank manly aspect & tone, & need not say that you were

It is postmarked: LONDON-W | 7 | OC 9 | 71; NEW YORK CITY | OCT | 22 | PAID; CARRIER | OCT | 23 | 8AM

The volume of American poems to which he refers was to be the seventeenth volume in the series and was

Gary Schmidgall, The Iowa Whitman Series (Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2001), 29.

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

WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;

was not a happy night for me that fol- low'd follow'd ; And else, when I carous'd, or when my plans were

Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me?

We Two—how Long We Were Fool'd. WE TWO—HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D. WE two—how long we were fool'd!

Misers, menials, priests alarming—air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities

1872prose6 leaveshandwritten; This manuscript touches on the developing "distinctive metropolitan American

Character" of Washington, including the city's status as a literary center.

Portions of this manuscript were used in Washington as a Central Winter Residence and Authors of Washington

neat form, Walt Whitman's ridiculous rigmarole, by an extreme stretch of critical courtesy called " American

If it were only decent prose we might stand it; but it does not rise to the dignity of a dessertation

While the words "Walt Whitman's American Institute Poem" appear on both the volume's cover and one of

Whitman wrote the poem following a request by the Committee on Invitations of the American Institute

While the words "Walt Whitman's American Institute Poem" appear on both the volume's cover and one of

Whitman wrote the poem following a request by the Committee on Invitations of the American Institute

TO The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist much, obey little; Once unquestioning

obedience, once fully enslaved; Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, of this earth, ever afterward

—Your letter of 8th July has reached me—I hope to write you more fully & answer it from Washington city—My

Rossetti informed Walt Whitman on October 8, 1871 that he was preparing "a vol. of Selections from American

Poets," which appeared in 1872 as American Poems with a dedication to Walt Whitman, "the greatest of

American poets."

death: "I think after your visit to him that his hold on life seemed to give way and his yearnings were

Home") from the August Galaxy, 12 (1871), 231–234, in which Swinburne's favorable comments on Whitman were

Y. you have seen in the papers —in five sixths of the city, it was curiously almost unfelt, every thing

new—in some respects they afford the most encouraging sign I have got—brown, bearded, worn, resolute, American-looking

men, dusty & sweaty—looked like veterans—the stock here even in these cities is in the main magnificent—the

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

Piper and Co., booksellers in Boston, were willing to take 50 copies of the new edition of Leaves of

invitation to deliver an appropriate original poem at the opening of the 40th Annual Exhibition of the American

Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to the Committee on Invitations, American

The Committee of the American Institute had written on August 1, 1871, "to solicit of you the honor of

in Camden (1906–1996), 1:328–329; Emory Holloway, Whitman–An Interpretation in Narrative (1926), American

Schmidt's letter "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he left Denmark in 1860

The city directory in 1870 listed him as a draughtsman and in 1872 as a patent agent.

Department of Justice Washington sent Sept. 17, 18 71 I send herewith the copy of my American Institute

Send the revised proofs to me by mail, directed to this city, and I will promptly return them.

I have no authority to speak for them, but I think the American Institute will want several hundred copies

jogging along about the same, on your car, with an occasional let up—Often in my jaunts around the city

, or on the bay, I wish you were with me, as you would enjoy it much—I have seen Mr.

. & Georgetown | City RR. Co. | Washington, | D. C." It is postmarked: "New York | Jun | 30 | (?)."

(Friday) '65 '71 Dear son, I shall return on Monday next, in the 12:30 train from Jersey city—(the train

death: "I think after your visit to him that his hold on life seemed to give way and his yearnings were

a hundred wounded—but you have seen all about it in papers—it was all up in a distant part of the city

, 3 miles from Wall street—five-sixths of the city went on with its business just the same as any other

police looked & behaved splendidly—no fuss, few words, but action —great, brown, bearded, able, American

City RR. Co. | Washington, | D. C. It is postmarked: New York | Jul(?) | 14 | 1:30.

Since the press had not reported his speech before the American Institute sympathetically (see Whitman's

August 5, 1871 letter to the American Institute), Walt Whitman wanted Swinton, who was no longer editor

The nights were the best. Every thing was lit up, and it was like a scene of enchantment.

The crowds of spectators were countless.

Lots of women were out, some of them as full of sport as the men—The principal street here is very wide

were some splendid horses—Less drinking than you would have supposed—No musses, & no accidents.

I wish we were together this minute, & you had employment so we could remain with each other, if you

You might do well to put in about my intended appearance before the American Institute, at its 40th opening

Walt Whitman read "After All, Not to Create Only" before the American Institute on September 7, 1871,

Ellis replied on August 23, 1871: since there were poems in Leaves of Grass which "would not go down

See also Emma Hardinge, Modern American Spiritualism (New York, 1870), 149.

of work-manship workmanship —age has already improved it, & will still more—both painting & frame were

one of Hine's acquaintances and a fellow portrait painter; Dodworth Hall at 806 Broadway in New York City

I think that after your visit to him that his hold on life seemed to give way and his yearnings were

Washington City, U. S. November 3, 1871 .

And would yield my life for this cause with serene joy if it were so appointed, if that were the price

He noted, however, that most book dealers were unwilling to sell Whitman's books, either because of inadequate

. | New York City." It is postmarked: "Washington | Apr | 22 | D.C."

Gurney and Son, 1871 Whitman dates this picture to about 1865, but Gurney & Son were at 707 Broadway

Johnston, including the 1854 Gabriel Harrison daguerreotype and the 1860 painting by Charles W.

Stereoscopes were invented before photography (the original ones used drawn landscapes), but they increased

shall listen to all sides, and filter them from your- self yourself . 3 I have heard what the talkers were

Trippers and askers surround me; People I meet—the effect upon me of my early life, or the ward and city

All I mark as my own, you shall offset it with your own; Else it were time lost listening to me.

; The blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe.)

Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you, my brother, my sister?

ages, that men and women like us grew up and travel'd their course, and pass'd on; What vast-built cities—what

and phrenology; What of liberty and slavery among them—what they thought of death and the soul; Who were

O I know that those men and women were not for nothing, any more than we are for nothing; I know that

Do their lives, cities, arts, rest only with us? Did they achieve nothing for good, for themselves?

slow drops, Candid, from me falling—drip, bleeding drops, From wounds made to free you whence you were

TO the leaven'd soil they trod, calling, I sing, for the last; (Not cities, nor man alone, nor war, nor

all—None refuse, all attend; Armies, ships, antiquities, the dead, libraries, paintings, machines, cities

All is recall'd as we flit by each other, fluid, affectionate, chaste, matured, You grew up with me, were

results of the war glorious and inevitable—and they again leading to other results;) How the great cities

there—of happiness in those high plateaus, ranging three thousand miles, warm and cold; Of mighty inland cities

OF what I write from myself—As if that were not the resumé; Of Histories—As if such, however complete

, were not less complete than the preceding poems; As if those shreds, the records of nations, could

possibly be as lasting as the preceding poems; As if here were not the amount of all nations, and of

was one half of the Boston-based abolitionist publishing firm Thayer and Eldridge, who issued the 1860

Edward Thompson Taylor was an American Methodist clergyman who was well regarded for his oratory skills

How are the times in the City now I dont don't expect it is as livly lively as during the war.

of nearly all my old chums if I was able to travil travel I would like to see some of them for they were

Bounty land laws for soldiers were enacted in the United States after the Revolutionary War.

The lines were later incorporated as lines 6, 7, 8, and 9 in L. of G.'