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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

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

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

28Our Old Feuillage (1860).

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

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

Fanny Raymond Ritter (c.1835–1891) was an American musician, writer, historian, and the wife of the German-American

The Ritters were friends of William Sloane Kennedy and William D.

Boston 1860–61. 3d. Ed. ? New York 1867, 4th. Ed. ? Washington 1871, 5th. Ed. ? Camden 1876 6th.

Wishing to know from an authentic source what other american Editions have been printed if any, will

On February 10, 1860, Whitman received a letter from the Boston publishing firm of Thayer and Eldridge

In March 1860, Whitman traveled to Boston to meet with the publishers and to oversee the printing of

the volume consisted of four separately paginated books stitched together (an edited version of the 1860

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

Walt Whitman continued steadily through '63, '64, and '65, to visit the sick and wounded of the American

armies, both on the field and in the hospitals in and around Washington city.

Some were scratched down from narratives he heard and itemized while watching, or writing, or leading

or Southey—ever depicted the woes of war so powerfully and touchingly as Walt Whitman does, as it were

It was in the same battle both were hit.

sent May 6 '76 see notes Jan 7 1889 35 East 39th St New York City. May 3d 1876.

many & so delighted the few—Permit me to congratulate you & to feel a little pride myself as an American

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

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

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

But, if many opposed him, many were of his party, and the most opposite and opposed schools of poetry

Americans question his right to be the typical singer of America.

Yet Walt Whitman has merits that no American prose-writer or poet ever yet had, with virtues and strength

sufficient for claiming laureateship of the great American nation.

Such, hurriedly sketched, were the accompaniments of the death of President Lincoln.

Whitman, who had lived with the Prices at various times in the 1860s, evidently did not visit them after

Congress, Washington, D.C.) and his letters reveal, many copies of the second printing to English and American

My thoughts were with on the 4th.

Should you know some good memoirs and relations of contemporaries about the Anglo-American work?

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

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

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

And the good women—God bless them—who were the first at the sepulchre and the last at the cross—how kind

his oral opinion that I might drink some light wine once a day till the returns in South Carolina were

host of English friends whose words of praise, warm and earnest, have kindled up the great poet's American

admirers, till Longfellow himself begins to appreciate the poet of American manhood, whose large utterances

(Now, if there were living near me, such people that I could take my Walt Whitman books with me, and

If I were a rich man I would print in great, big type, that Song , for wide distribution at the Centennial

The Passage to India and the Strong Bird &c were not new to me—I had them before.

In August 1865, the city of St.

Louis presented Sherman a gift of $30,000 to buy a house in the city, and he purchased a house on Garrison

Lee (1807–1870) was an American military officer who commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia

in the American Civil War.

generals in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.

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.

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

This postcard is addressed: John Swinton | 134 East 38th street | New York City.

I was glad to hear you were better.

1901, now preserved in the "The Papers of Edward Carpenter, 1844–1929," in the Sheffield, England, City

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

claim a patent right for the my old terms "champion of nature" and "good-enough man" &c &c If you were

come (Perhaps on all subjects, in time, I have had printed as much as would make 3 or 4 columns of a city

to Meltonsville Perhaps the greatest doubter is the greatest Philosopher A while back some debtors were

During the American Civil War, Camp Douglas—founded in 1861—was a Union camp in Chicago.

Jessie and her sister Manahatta "Hattie" (1860–1886) were both favorites of their uncle Walt.

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

This letter's envelope bears the address, "John Swinton | 13413 East 38th Street | New York City."

Ted Genoways [Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004], 7:145).

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

This postcard bears the address, "John Swinton | 124 East 38th st | New York City."

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

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

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

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

but the bad deathly spells are very rare, (almost unknown) the last three months—I want to go to N Y city

was unneeded, hurtful to my case, & join'd joined with his allusions to the matter in his public American

March 11 letter to the News , is well taken, & true without exception —particularly all about the American

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.

McCarthy, Jr. (1860–1936).

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

Whitman's poetry is like no other that ever was written—boldly conceived, bluntly expressed, purely American

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

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).

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

Whitman wrote for the first time to this distinguished American sculptor on April 12, 1876.

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

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.

Rejoiced, too, perhaps with the sight of many dear old friends whom occasion has brought to your city

An aspiring physician, Beatrice took the needed preparatory classes but was barred (as were all women

"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

questions I have lately sent about policy of attacking suc h Orthodoxy as prevails here and elsewhere, were

De feated till I sometimes wish I were dead.)

He utterly refused to let me have any money or even books which were mine under exemption laws had I

The first with other debts were to be paid in four proportions as the goods were sold.