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edition 72 pages, small quarto, was pub published in Brooklyn N Y New York in 1855 —Second New York City

1857—third 1860 (by Thayer & Eldridge Boston) —fourth New York City 1865—fifth Washington D C 1871—Sixth

Leypoldt & Co. were bookdealers with a store at 37 Park Row in New York City.

moderation, has been all the past month visiting, riding, receiving, and jaunting in and about the city

audience to the most cultured and elegant society of New York, including most of the artists of the city

been thrown open on two special occasions for informal public receptions in compliment to him, which were

Whitman has explored the city and neighborhood, often as near possible after the fashion of old times

spirits, believes thoroughly not only in the future world, but the present, and especially in our American

Louis adopted a city charter on August 22, 1876, which abolished the independent state Board of Water

Commissioners and replaced it with a city Board of Public Improvements, a change similar to that made

The discredited political appointees of 1875 were apparently striking a final vindictive blow against

Jeff before they were replaced under the new law.

Nonetheless, the city council appointed Jeff as water commissioner on August 21 (Journal of the City

In the next place I am one of the few in the West, I suppose I am the only one in this city, who has

I think there is no other American poet that has ever soared so high as you do at times, and hence no

passages are quoted as being the work of an immoral writer, and, altho' although I tried to show they were

ardent supporter of Walt Whitman's works in England (see Harold Blodgett, "Whitman and Buchanan," American

Originally entitled "Enfans d'Adam" in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, this cluster of poems celebrating

The poems, openly "singing the phallus" and the "mystic deliria," were too bold for their time and often

relationship with esteemed writer Ralph Waldo Emerson cooled after he refused Emerson's advice in 1860

Miller, Jr., " 'Children of Adam' [1860]," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R.

. ☞ If the population of the world were divided into lots of ten thousand—separated—minds a blank on

I see in Bob the noblest specimen—American-flavored—pure out of the soil, spreading, giving, demanding

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

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

villa residences—and in the valley below one enduring cloud of smoke, and a pale faced teeming population

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

"Yes—that was an actual moth," he told Traubel, "the picture is substantially literal: we were good friends

What is not often noted is that the photo simply enacts one of the recurrent visual emblems in the 1860

Black photo in 1860 (zzz.00134) and two photos of Whitman with his friend Bill Duckett, taken in 1886

The folks and I have commenced to miss you aready already , they were talking of you as soon as you left

Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden—though it does appear frequently in the last three volumes, which were

Deborah Stafford (1860–1945) was the sister of Harry Stafford. She married Joseph Browning.

My wife received lately a letter from M G. to serve as an introduction for an American lady, M Edwards

Whitman that the writer is one of his ardent admirers, & that it was a rich treat to read in your American

I can but repeat my delight in this prospect, were it to be realized, & my wife's hope & my own that

See Catherine Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry 1860–1879: an Annotated Bibliography (London: Mansell, 2000

Moore, Esq., formerly of the Philotechnic Institution of this city, and at present a resident of St.

The good folks of that delightful little place were about proceeding to church when the alarm was given

I was born in the year 1860.

Loe Strachey (1860–1927) was a British journalist, and for a time was the editor of The Spectator.

Ed has gon gone to the City to day today and I have to tend for him and Ben wishes to go to the City

Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden—though it does appear frequently in the last three volumes, which were

According to The Commonplace Book, the girls left on September 24 for Ellicott City, Maryland, where

They were not miscellaneous poems, but one vol: a drama and the other a Chinese story.

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

published her first book of poetry (Blanche Lisle, and other Poems) under the pen name Cecil Home in 1860

Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden—though it does appear frequently in the last three volumes, which were

Eldridge was an old friend of Whitman and copublisher of the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

Camden City. N.J. May, 21st,—77.

I have been over in the City to day today , but did not get any thing anything to do, I went around untill

Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden—though it does appear frequently in the last three volumes, which were

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

letter bears the address: Miss Mannahatta Whitman | Care of Mrs Archer | Patapsco Seminary | Ellicott City

Loe Strachey (1860–1927) was a British journalist, and for a time was the editor of The Spectator.

Bellows | 356 Fifth Street | bet Monmouth & Brunswick sts | Jersey City | N J.

Jersey City N.J. This partial letter, the top of which is cut away, has been repurposed.

tramp & strike questionsabout 1882prose1 leafhandwritten; This page of notes about the problems of American

I told him you were probably away in the country. I liked the looks of Boston much.

We were at Alcotts only a few minutes. He spoke in a friendly way about you &c.

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

Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) was an American educator, abolitionist, and father of Louisa May Alcott

is on "Man's Moral Nature." this book as I say was inspired by yourself about six years ago in the city

"The Function of the Great Sympathetic Nervous System" (American Journal of Insanity, 43 (October 1877

113 east 10th Street | N Y New York City— March 13 Dear friend Yours of yesterday rec'd received —Shall

AMERICAN, EUROPEAN AND ORIENTAL LITERARY AGENCY. 57. & 59. Ludgate Hill. London E.C.

evenigng evening & was glad to hear from you & to know that you are well & happy with your friends in the City

The second and third scraps were revised and contributed to Distant Sounds.

Both of these prose pieces first appeared in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883), and were included in

Father has been to the city to day today and came home sick with the head-ache, so sick he had to go

Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden—though it does appear frequently in the last three volumes, which were

Your poems are an Appian Way for the triumphal thoughts of the American, and you celebrate a theatre

I did not get my load of cabbage sold, had to leave them with a commissioner, over in the city, I got

Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden—though it does appear frequently in the last three volumes, which were

Father is going to the City to day today and Brother is away, so the house is almost diserted deserted

Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden—though it does appear frequently in the last three volumes, which were

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

question, which I was not prepared to answer, came comments in a British Review to the effect that Americans

could forgive me for this—but you what has been a frequent mine—"if all the things which are done, were

left undone, and all the which are barely undone , were done, the world every way would present a very

myself, represent "falsehoods," and "the sale of slaves"—4 or 5 years before my father and mother were

These notes describing the onset of spring were revised and later published in Specimen Days & Collect

Revised portions of this draft were used as the first paragraph of the section titled Convalescent Hours

Our little Walter has been very sick since I saw you we were afraid we would lose him but is just well

The whole collection would be sufficiently homogeneous, (and it were a fault to be too much so)—You just

Honered Honored Friend— Was beginning to fear you were ill.

strawberries most every meal— (The camp-out project in Aug: with J[ohn] B[urroughs] is magnificent —O that I were

Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden—though it does appear frequently in the last three volumes, which were

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

William Gardner Barton (1851–1890) was a writer and naturalist whose writings were featured in the collection

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

OK., they were over to Philadelphia after they left over to Swartse's, from what I hear them say.

Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden—though it does appear frequently in the last three volumes, which were

Herbert and Harry, however, were not on amicable terms (see Whitman's letter to Harry on August 7, 1877

Evidently the two young men were later on better terms, for, according to Harry's letter to Whitman on

Anne Gilchrist's daughters were Beatrice (1854–1881) and Grace (1859–1947).

Harry's parents, George (1827–1892) and Susan Stafford (1833–1910), were tenant farmers at White Horse

Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden—though it does appear frequently in the last three volumes, which were

Not a word about her disillusionment with the person who, not mentioned by name, was simply "an American