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Anna Tolman Smith to Walt Whitman, 24 September 1877

  • Date: September 24, 1877
  • Creator(s): Anna Tolman Smith
Text:

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

Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 1 March 1877

  • Date: March 1, 1877
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Annotations Text:

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

Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 17 September 1877

  • Date: September 17, 1877
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 19 December 1877

  • Date: December 19, 1877
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

Edward D. Bellows to Walt Whitman, [15 November 1877?]

  • Date: November 15, 1877
  • Creator(s): Edward D. Bellows
Text:

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

Edward P. Cattell to Walt Whitman, 21 October 1877

  • Date: October 21, 1877
  • Creator(s): Edward P. Cattell
Annotations Text:

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

Eugene Benson to Walt Whitman, 1 January 1877

  • Date: January 1, 1877
  • Creator(s): Eugene Benson
Text:

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

[Feb 11—The first chirping]

  • Date: 1877
Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 13 November 1877

  • Date: November 13, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 14 August 1877

  • Date: August 14, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 17 November 1877

  • Date: November 17, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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.

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 17 October 1877

  • Date: October 17, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1877

  • Date: November 2, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 21 July 1877

  • Date: July 21, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 21 May 1877

  • Date: May 21, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 21 November 1877

  • Date: November 21, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 24 October 1877

  • Date: October 24, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 25 September 1877

  • Date: September 25, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 27 November 1877

  • Date: November 27, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 29 October 1877

  • Date: October 29, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 4 October 1877

  • Date: October 4, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 6 August 1877

  • Date: August 6, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 7 November 1877

  • Date: November 7, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 9 July 1877

  • Date: July 9, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

John Addington Symonds to Walt Whitman, 12 July 1877

  • Date: July 12, 1877
  • Creator(s): John Addington Symonds
Annotations Text:

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

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 10 August 1877

  • Date: August 10, 1877
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

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.

Annotations Text:

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

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 16 September 1877

  • Date: September 16, 1877
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 20 May 1877

  • Date: May 20, 1877
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

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

John St. Loe Strachey to Walt Whitman, 12 July 1877

  • Date: July 12, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I was born in the year 1860.

Annotations Text:

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

John T. Trowbridge to Walt Whitman, 2 December 1877

  • Date: December 2, 1877
  • Creator(s): John T. Trowbridge
Annotations Text:

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

Joseph C. Baldwin to Walt Whitman, 13 May 1877

  • Date: May 13, 1877
  • Creator(s): Joseph C. Baldwin
Text:

them all by them selves themselves Please go and see them tell them I sent you to see how they ware were

Our New York Letter: Jennie June's Weekly Jottings

  • Date: 17 March 1877
  • Creator(s): Jennie June
Text:

They were very sad. No welcome had the poet for Art or Face, but to Death his door flew open wide.

R. B. Anderson to Walt Whitman, 17 September 1877

  • Date: September 17, 1877
  • Creator(s): R. B. Anderson
Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 4 November 1877

  • Date: November 4, 1877
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

Robert Buchanan to Walt Whitman, 8 January 1877

  • Date: January 8, 1877
  • Creator(s): Robert Buchanan | Horace Traubel
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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.

Sarah E. [Bownes?] to Walt Whitman, 6 April 1877

  • Date: April 6, 1877
  • Creator(s): Sarah E. [Bownes?]
Text:

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

[Sunday Aug 27 '77]

  • Date: 1877
Text:

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

Susan Stafford to Walt Whitman, 31 January 1877

  • Date: January 31, 1877
  • Creator(s): Susan Stafford
Text:

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

Thomas B. Freeman to Walt Whitman, 1 February 1877

  • Date: February 1, 1877
  • Creator(s): Thomas B. Freeman
Annotations Text:

Six sections of this book first appeared as newspaper pieces in 1874, and then were collected and revised

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 22 July 1877

  • Date: July 22, 1877
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

The tramp & strike questions

  • Date: about 1882
Text:

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

Trübner and Company to Walt Whitman, 31 May 1877

  • Date: May 31, 1877
  • Creator(s): Trübner and Company
Text:

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

Walt Whitman

  • Date: 29 March 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman by Unknown, Late 1870s or Early 1880s

  • Date: Late 1870s or Early 1880s
  • Creator(s): Unknown
Text:

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

Walt Whitman by W. Curtis Taylor of Broadbent and Taylor, ca. 1877

  • Date: ca. 1877
  • Creator(s): W. Curtis Taylor
Text:

"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

Walt Whitman to Anne and Herbert Gilchrist, 12 June [1877]

  • Date: June 12, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 11 June [1877]

  • Date: June 11, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 11 November [1877]

  • Date: November 11, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 19 September [1877]

  • Date: September 19, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 25 September [1877]

  • Date: September 25, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

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