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The notes found on the first leaf were used in Preface, 1876, to the two-volume Centennial Edition of

Both of these pieces were eventually included in Complete Prose Works (1892).

These corrections were probably intended for the 1881–82 edition of Leaves of Grass.

Starting From Paumanok was first published as Proto-Leafin 1860. Starting from Paumanok

In fact, portions of this manuscript were used in Whitman's footnote to New Themes Entered Upon, Specimen

28Our Old Feuillage (1860).

Feuillagebetween 1876-1881poetryhandwritten6 leaves20.5 x 12.5 cm; A bound copy of six leaves (the poem American

Italian curls—or the semblance of 'em" (Saturday, October 13th, 1888), and he was relieved when they were

We struck a paragraph, yesterday, about Walt Whitman, and thought to wrench a joke out of it, but were

My dear Sir, Some years ago when I had occasion to address you, you were so good as to say you should

The American agent to whom my last application for this was forwarded says: "I don't think there is an

not an edition between the the one set up by yourself in 1855 and that of Thayer & Eldridge dated 1860

was the Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860

"Walt Whitman's Actual American Position," which appeared in the West Jersey Press on January 26, was

In the West Jersey Press, Whitman protested his neglect by American readers, publishers, and poets.

Joaquin Miller was the pen name of Cincinnatus Heine Miller (1837–1913), an American poet nicknamed "

Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907) was an American abolitionist, minister, and frequent correspondent

Krieg, chapter 8, "Dublin," Walt Whitman and the Irish (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000), 190

interested in any thing about me —and the humorous pieces because I remember you are curious about American

Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907) was an American abolitionist, minister, and frequent correspondent

Joaquin Miller was the pen name of Cincinnatus Heine Miller (1837–1913), an American poet nicknamed "

Mason Locke Weems (1759–1825) was an American minister and writer.

dear friend, I would ask of you the favor to see, if convenient, whether the enclosed article The American

"The American War" was published in The Examiner; see Whitman's letter to Rossetti of June 26, 1876.

intended to copy out and send to you —it has lain in my desk since then—when I had heard that you were

But I am glad to say that I have been the means of making your work known to many who were scoffers at

Many of us were hoping to see you in Ireland.

He was also secretary of the American Philosophical Society from 1858 to 1885.

His daughters were Margaret White Lesley Bush-Brown and Mary Lesley Ames (both mentioned in Whitman's

I do not know whether your American Summers are as health-bringing as our Summers, but I should suppose

that we shall look for an advance towards recovery The newspaper statement of the attitude of the American

a speech which consisted in the main of apt selections from L. of G. & Democratic Vistas, & these were

Whitman side,—a barrister, a young clergyman, a man in business, & others, while the remaining speakers were

Memoranda During the War (1875) chronicles Whitman's time as a hospital volunteer during the American

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

oceans and murky whirls, appear the central resolution and sternness of the bulk or the average American

the latent personal character and eligibilities of these States, in the two or three millions of Americans

one-fourth of their number, stricken by wounds or disease at some time in the course of the contest—were

have tended it— My sister and brother Geo: George are well—My other sisters, nieces, & brother Jeff , were

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

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

He was also secretary of the American Philosophical Society.

Harned, ed., The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman [Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, and

On the floor at his feet was a "paper file," containing a small sheet on which some memoranda were written

, and on a larger table, in the centre of the room, were several letters bearing English postage stamps

Whitman's relationships with his publishers and distributors in the 1870s were extremely fraught, and

in some tangible shape: & I c.d could at this moment tell you of at least 3 several plans wh. which were

, & you vouch for as less strong than the facts, proves that some more cheerful preceding accounts were

Krieg, chapter 8, "Dublin," Walt Whitman and the Irish (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000), 190

women, nearly all of whom she knew well, giving me, among the rest, descriptions of Personnel that were

The only American prophet to my knowledge who enjoys a fame in England not accorded him in his own country

singer he especially desired to be called, it can hardly be said that his claims to the rank of poet were

The newer parts were printed at this office.

Ought it not to be a duty, too, of—not the American public to recognize your gift to America as a writer

but—the American Government to recognize your services, as of one who saved the lives, & lightened the

sufferings of many American citizens—It would be honourable to the Government & to you.

Memoranda During the War (1875) chronicles Whitman's time as a hospital volunteer during the American

B. first, & then me —say, if I were sick, or were poor, why then ,—&c. &c.

My dearest friend, I do not approve your American trans–settlement —I see so many things here, you have

yet no idea of—the American social & almost every other kind of crudeness, meagreness, (at least in

STRANGELY impudent agitation has just been started with regard to what is called "Walt Whitman's Actual American

Whitman, it may be explained, is an American writer who some years back attracted attention by a volume

of so-called poems which were chiefly remarkable for their absurd extravagance and shameless obscenity

"The real truth," says an American journal, which has taken up the subject apparently in the interest

All the established American poets studiously ignore Whitman."

"Walt Whitman's Actual American Position" was an unsigned article published in the West Jersey Press

Nor do I feel discouraged or surprised at what you say of American "crudeness," &c.

intent, a stalwart man of genial appearance & seemingly past the middle age since his hair & face beard were

, live here, (my mother living with us) & have charge of one of the public schools (No. 13) of the city

Whitman served as the basis for Stephen Alonzo Schoff's engraving of the poet for Leaves of Grass (1860

Frank Leslie's Weekly, published from 1852 to 1922, was an American literary and news magazine published

deeply appreciate them, & do not hesitate to accept & respond to them in the same spirit in which they were

The last three lines of the endorsement were added three years later.

the office, Harry Stafford—I know his father & mother—There is a large family, very respectable American

Were it not that I find the uncertainty about this most embarrassing, & the presumable chance of enlisting

Memoranda During the War (1875) chronicles Whitman's time as a hospital volunteer during the American

This is to acknowledge yours of the 25 th March—those of the 16 and of the 20 , duly rec'd received , were

The letters referred to were written on March 30 and March 31.

Ward (1830–1910) was, according to Dictionary of American Biography, "the first native sculptor to create

Walt Whitman wrote for the first time to distinguished American sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward (1830

Ward (1830–1910) was, according to Dictionary of American Biography, "the first native sculptor to create

In 1860, when he was tried in Boston because of his refusal to testify before a committee of the U.S.

Sent books by express prepaid—April 21 Karns City Butler Co County Pa Pennsylvania April 14th 1876 Walt

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

I wish I were a rich man—I am only an author living by his pen—and you should certainly never want anything

I can conceive you smiling superbly as you survey the gnats of American journalism now hovering round

that you have fulfilled your life, & spoken—in tones no thunder can silence—the beautiful message you were

Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907) was an American abolitionist, minister, and frequent correspondent

" presumably Lincoln's first campaign song, and served as correspondent of the New York World from 1860

He published many volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were

(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885) and A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to

Joaquin Miller was the pen name of Cincinnatus Heine Miller (1837–1913), an American poet nicknamed "

Memoranda During the War (1875) chronicles Whitman's time as a hospital volunteer during the American

already begun to wear the grizzled beard and silvering locks that have become almost the badge of American

been a confirmed invalid, he has assumed more entirely the grayness that was ascribed to him, and were

It was in April, 1860, when I had been seized at night by the Untied States marshal, under an unlawful

Whitman, who is inspector of gas-pipes in the city of Camden.

Thoreau was also a writer for the Democratic Review in those days before the flood,—so were Hawthorne

Let us come & be near you—& see if we are made of the right sort of stuff for transplanting to American

If it were not for unduly trenching upon your space, I would like to show you the passages which the

I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that American has yet contributed.

seemed the sterile and stingy nature, as if too much handiwork or too much lymph in the temperament were

I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is

When the author of “Leaves of Grass” was in Boston in 1860, Emerson was his frequent and cordial visitor

This general statement of the relations between the two men explains the talk upon Boston Common in 1860

And my arriere and citadel positions—such as I have indicated in my June North American Review memorandum—were

not only not attacked, they were not even alluded to.”

Chadwick may try to say that if Walt Whitman had any case to state, that hour with Emerson in 1860 was

On July 12, 1874, he wrote for the first time to Walt Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me

Austin's letter to the same paper in which he said "While we talk, he starves"; to defend your American

last loaf with you; and to free you from the charge of getting aid on false pretences of which you were

at one here on the subject, and Rossetti wrote to me that he knew Buchanans Buchanan's statements were

1884, when George and Louisa moved to a farm outside of Camden and Whitman decided to stay in the city

Young's knowledge of the Chinese language earned him the position of the American ambassador to China

Mary Fenn Robinson (1824–1886) was an American Spiritualist and the second wife of Andrew Jackson Davis

The couple founded the Herald of Progress, a Spiritualist newspaper, in 1860.

Richard Bentley & Son were London publishers.

Walt Whitman, the American Poet.

their souls as an instinct, their general tone of thought and feeling, and modes of expressing them, were

One of his own countrymen (a press correspondent) thus writes of him— The only American prophet to my

The "seven cities" refer to Chios, Athens, Rhodes, Colophon, Argos, Smyrna, and Salamis.

Walt Whitman, the American Poet

Clear Grits were reformers in the province of Upper Canada, a British colony that is now Ontario, Canada

Their support was concentrated among southwestern Ontario farmers, who were frustrated and disillusioned

The Clear Grits advocated universal male suffrage, representation by population, democratic institutions

They can easily be remembered through the mnemonic "carcass" (the first letter of each city spells the

have been attributed to several writers, including Thomas Heywood (died 1649), who wrote: "Seven cities