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William H. Taylor to Walt Whitman, 21 June 1874

  • Date: June 21, 1874
  • Creator(s): William H. Taylor
Text:

Taylor was over last week And he was speaking about how He is gent for Sewing ( machines And lives at City

Annotations Text:

Little is known about the men Taylor mentions here except that they were former drivers in New York and

Walter Whitman Storms to Walt Whitman, 9 March 1874

  • Date: March 9, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Storms
Text:

we spent about 2 Hours—saw a great many anamiles animals , a few birds, &c, &c., but the monkeys, were

Here we saw a fine structure—we were there awhile & then took the Hud. Hudson R. R R to 43 st.

Annotations Text:

referring to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is located in Central Park at 1000 5th Avenue, New York City

Walter Whitman Storms to Walt Whitman, 12 January 1874

  • Date: January 12, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walter Whitman Storms
Text:

Then I saw in the paper, that you were out in Canada, taking your vacation, so I did not write again,

Annotations Text:

His brothers were Garret Storms (1861–1945), George Storms (1863–1888), and Richard Storms (1867–1939

Walter Whitman Storms and his siblings were the children of Herman Blauvelt Storms (1822–1898) and his

'Tis But Ten Years Since [First Paper.]

  • Date: 24 January 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

FROM MEMORANDA MADE AT THE TIME IN NEW YORK CITY, OR WASHINGTON, OR IN ARMY HOSPITALS, OR CAMP OR FIELD

Some were scratched down from narratives I heard and itemized while watching, or waiting, or tending

All the moral convictions of the best portion of the Nation were outraged.

The broad spaces, sidewalks, and street in the neighborhood, and for some distance, were crowded with

He was overthrown in 1857 and executed in Honduras in 1860.

Annotations Text:

He was overthrown in 1857 and executed in Honduras in 1860.; Plutarch (46–120 AD) was a Greek essayist

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Sixth Paper.)

  • Date: 7 March 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

FROM MEMORANDA MADE AT THE TIME IN NEW YORK CITY, OR WASHINGTON, OR IN ARMY HOSPITALS, OR CAMP OR FIELD

They were very fond of it, and liked declamatory poetical pieces.

Many were entire strangers.

They are not charity-patients, but American young men, of pride and independence.

The two were chatting of one thing and another. The fever soldier spoke of John C.

Annotations Text:

.; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was a celebrated American poet.

'Tis But Ten Years Since (Fourth Paper.)

  • Date: 21 February 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

FROM MEMORANDA MADE AT THE TIME IN NEW YORK CITY, OR WASHINGTON, OR IN ARMY HOSPITALS, OR CAMP OR FIELD

I have never seen a more pathetic sight than the patient and mute manner of our American wounded and

This B. is a good sample of the American Eastern young man—the typical Yankee.

It was quite fresh and nomadic, the way these two primal cavaliers, well mounted as they were on expert

Traveling with the Wounded: Walt Whitman and Washington's Civil War Hospitals ." northeast of the city

Walt Whitman to William Stansberry, 20 May 1874

  • Date: May 20, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

remembered by you so long—& that the kiss I gave you amid those scenes, should be treasured up, & as it were

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 30 January [1874]

  • Date: January 30, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

punch—I suppose you have seen it—they say it is quite a success, & they are introducing them in other cities—but

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, [16 January 1874]

  • Date: January 16, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

houseless creatures, to keep from freezing to death—he keeps a great stove red-hot all night—some were

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 3 November [1874]

  • Date: November 3, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

How I wish you were here to-day Walt. Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 3 November [1874]

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 2 January [1874]

  • Date: January 2, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Miller notes that all except one of the letters were written on Fridays, and most of them referred to

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 1 May [1874]

  • Date: May 1, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

O'Connor of May 1, 1874, were obviously written on the same day.

Walt Whitman to John Swinton, 24 June [1874]

  • Date: June 24, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

boat to Amboy, & so directly here to Camden depot, (only 60 rods from this house,) or from Jersey City

Annotations Text:

. | New York City." It is postmarked: "Camden | Jun | 24 | N.J."

Walt Whitman to Ulysses S. Grant, 27 February 1874

  • Date: February 27, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Silver, American Literature, 15 (1943), 51–62.

Walt Whitman to Thomas O'Kane, 22 April 1874

  • Date: April 22, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I have not charged the copies of other books besides L. of G. as the sales were slight.

Walt Whitman to Asa K. Butts & Company, 4 February 1874

  • Date: February 4, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—none in Boston—none in Washington—whatever you were "told"—none anywhere in America.

A hundred copies were sent by me to England about a year & a half ago.

Annotations Text:

Piper & Co. were Boston booksellers.

edition of Leaves of Grass; see Trowbridge's letter to O'Connor on March 24, 1867, reprinted in American

Walt Whitman to Edward P. Clark, 13 June 1874

  • Date: June 13, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

piece & requested that it be read in its place on the programme, 17th, exactly the same as though I were

Walt Whitman to Rudolf Schmidt, 11 June 1874

  • Date: June 11, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

though slowly—I enclose a piece of mine just written for Commencement Poem to a College near Boston city—the

headquarters of the Universalists—my piece is to be read by proxy— I enclose you some pieces more on American

interested in that subject—& a very amusing & 'cute letter by a lady about the darkeys down South—American

&c—It is entirely different from the English, or English–German — We have been having one of our American

me here—he is settled on a little farm of his own on the Hudson river, 60 miles north of New York city

Walt Whitman to Rudolf Schmidt, 25 April 1874

  • Date: April 25, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Rudolf Schmidt, 4 March 1874

  • Date: March 4, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

tour in Germany—O how I should like to be with you & go around with you, in some of those quaint old cities

I am saving up for you some pieces on American humor , which I will send, when ready.

Annotations Text:

F. presented "A Biographical Sketch—An American Poet Graduating from a Printer's 'Case.' "

Walt Whitman to Rudolf Schmidt, 25 January 1874

  • Date: January 25, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Schmidt had been told by "an American gentleman" that Walt Whitman was going to England.

Walt Whitman to Rudolf Schmidt, 19 March 1874

  • Date: March 19, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

In body I have always been, & still remain, stout , in the American sense, (i.e. not corpulent)— In my

recovering from an attack of erysipelas which had left large red blotches on his face—two other visitors were

up by an immense & general basis of the eligibility to manly & loving comradeship, very marked in American

Walt Whitman to Abby H. Price, 3 March [1874]

  • Date: March 3, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Price | 331 East 55th street | New York City." Its postmark is indecipherable.

Walt Whitman to Charles W. Eldridge, 2 December [1874]

  • Date: December 2, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

reports, documents, or whatever to is To Paul Liptay Care of Otto Behrens 140 Eighth avenue New York City

are absolutely troubles, & their radiations— Charley, I have had a sick, sick three weeks since you were

Walt Whitman to John & Ursula Burroughs, 21 May [1874]

  • Date: May 21, [1874]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 10 June [1874]

  • Date: June 10, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Song of the Universal"—to be read by proxy in its place in the programme, just the same as though I were

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 11 December [1874]

  • Date: December 11, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Marvin had been co-editor of the Radical in 1866–1867; see Frank Luther Mott, A History of American Magazines

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 11 February [1874]

  • Date: February 11, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Townsend's deaths—If it were eligible you should come frequently & spend the days with me , to cheer

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 5 August [1874]

  • Date: August 5, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

good plate glass)—I shall look for Charles Eldridge— My sister is spending a few weeks at Atlantic City—I

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 15 May [1874]

  • Date: May 15, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

modified, by no means lost)—I feel quite peert , in good spirits, free from any marked distress—& if you were

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 23 March [1874]

  • Date: March 23, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

You will find me much better —to-day I feel like getting well, (& confidently expect to)—wish you were

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 7 August [1874]

  • Date: August 7, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

about the same—write to me about Tasistro in your next—Am here partially alone—folks gone to Atlantic city

Annotations Text:

August 5 letter to Ellen O'Connor and his August 18 letter to John and Ursula Burroughs, both of which were

conclusively written in 1874, Whitman's "alternations" were especially marked during the summer of this

The visit of George and Louisa to Atlantic City was mentioned in Whitman's August 5, 1874 letter to Ellen

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 31 July [1874]

  • Date: July 31, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

letter to Ellen O'Connor and his August 18, 1874 letter to John and Ursula Burroughs, both of which were

conclusively written in 1874, Whitman's "alternations" were especially marked during the summer of this

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 21 August [1874]

  • Date: August 21, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

August 5 letter to Ellen O'Connor and his August 18 letter to John and Ursula Burroughs, both of which were

conclusively written in 1874, Whitman's "alternations" were especially marked during the summer of this

Walt Whitman to Jessie Louisa Whitman, 23 April 1874

  • Date: April 23, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Manahatta Whitman (1860–1886), known as "Hattie," was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson ("Jeff") and Martha

Hattie and her sister Jessie were both favorites of their uncle Walt.

Thomas Dixon to Walt Whitman, 8 September 1874

  • Date: September 8, 1874
  • Creator(s): Thomas Dixon
Text:

your work may make your work and you more known to our working Classes the periodical in which they were

some talk and he said the only persons he Knew bearing the name lived at Egham in Surrey and where were

Annotations Text:

About half of the poems from the 1867 American edition of Leaves of Grass were removed for the British

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

Leaves of Grass

  • Date: 10 October 1874
  • Creator(s): Saintsbury, George
Text:

London: Chatto & Windus) S EVERAL years have now passed since Walt Whitman's poetical works and claims were

this new edition of the 'Leaves of Grass' may be the occasion of a deeper and wider study of the American

entirely uniform; sometimes he speaks as a federation of nations, sometimes as if mankind at large were

This is what he calls "robust American love."

No Englishman, no one indeed, whether American or Englishman, need be deterred from reading this book

Annotations Text:

pseudonym of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter) (1763-1825) was a German novelist and humorist, whose works were

Rudolf Schmidt to Walt Whitman, 2 January 1874

  • Date: January 2, 1874
  • Creator(s): Rudolf Schmidt
Text:

An American gentleman told me, that you were going to England? Is it true?

Rudolf Schmidt to Walt Whitman, 28 February 1874

  • Date: February 28, 1874
  • Creator(s): Rudolf Schmidt
Annotations Text:

The parcels were sent to Whitman's old address in the Attorney General's Office in Washington before

accusations of homosexuality; accusations that Petersen was inappropriately involved with schoolchildren were

Petersen who is an infinitely greater talent has got no entrance into this periodical [The North American

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

Rudolf Schmidt to Walt Whitman, 28 December 1874

  • Date: December 28, 1874
  • Creator(s): Rudolf Schmidt
Text:

The least benevolent of them are, you will allow, far more benevolent than your homely American criticisms

Rudolf Schmidt to Walt Whitman, 28 July 1874

  • Date: July 28, 1874
  • Creator(s): Rudolf Schmidt
Text:

A great deal of Englishmen and some Americans are travelling here in Norway.

Rudolf Schmidt to Walt Whitman, 20 March 1874

  • Date: March 20, 1874
  • Creator(s): Rudolf Schmidt
Text:

friends, they have themselves a democratic mind and grant you much more than the editors of the American

nearly comical", writes a young married lady to me, "to see the critics cut and crisp the broad American

Annotations Text:

The Weekly Tribune enjoyed widespread distribution, with a circulation of 200,000 in 1860.

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

accusations of homosexuality; accusations that Petersen was inappropriately involved with schoolchildren were

Religion, in which he argued (against the Hegelian model) that religious faith and scientific knowledge were

Rudolf Schmidt to Walt Whitman, 26 June 1874

  • Date: June 26, 1874
  • Creator(s): Rudolf Schmidt
Text:

original nation of the far West. 5) I am very glad to be furnished with new materials concerning the American

completely translated to you. 8) Has this translation of your book into Danish not been spoken of in the American

Annotations Text:

The magazine became successful by reprinting British novels before eventually publishing American authors

Six of Whitman's poems were published there between 1874 and 1892.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), better know by his pen name, Mark Twain, was an American humorist

accusations of homosexuality; accusations that Petersen was inappropriately involved with schoolchildren were

Maria Smith to Walt Whitman, 10 December 1874

  • Date: December 10, 1874
  • Creator(s): Maria Smith
Text:

write you afew a few lines that you may now know i I have you in rememberance remembrance yet you were

Leon P. Luckey to Walt Whitman, 6 March 1874

  • Date: March 6, 1874
  • Creator(s): Leon P. Luckey
Annotations Text:

Silver, American Literature, 15 (1943), 51–62.

Joseph B. Marvin to Walt Whitman, 15 December 1874

  • Date: December 15, 1874
  • Creator(s): Joseph B. Marvin
Text:

Washington City.

Annotations Text:

his time, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was both a highly popular and highly respected American

When Whitman met Longfellow in June 1876, he was unimpressed: "His manners were stately, conventional—all

John Swinton to Walt Whitman, 23 June 1874

  • Date: June 23, 1874
  • Creator(s): John Swinton
Text:

Oh, what scenes of human horror were to be found in this city last winter.

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 13 August 1874

  • Date: August 13, 1874
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

short editorial stating that Congress had caused the discharge from public service of many persons who were

Again this summer learned in my backwoods hermit home that Walt's Poems were in books, and that "English

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 13 September 1874

  • Date: September 13, 1874
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

This I suppose that "nearest friend" or yourself intended as answer to my inquiry whether you were reduced

Annotations Text:

Three of the children were from John Newton Johnson's first marriage to Clotilda Loveless Johnson (b.

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 7 October 1874

  • Date: October 7, 1874
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

office—Willwell Farm is 3 miles from that office—near the "lordly" and beautiful Tennessee, in a populous

The white population predominates here enough to free us from the unpleasantness experienced in other

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