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Whitelaw Reid to Walt Whitman, 18 November 1878

  • Date: November 18, 1878
  • Creator(s): Whitelaw Reid
Annotations Text:

Whitelaw Reid (1837–1912) was the editor of the New York Tribune from 1872 to 1905 and also American

Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti, 28 July 1878

  • Date: July 28, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

W W Walt Whitman, the American Poet, author of Leaves of Grass &c Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti

Walt Whitman to Trübner & Company, 1 October 1878

  • Date: October 1, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Whitman's dealings with Trübner & Co. were handled through Josiah Child.

sent Whitman $7.57 in payment for copies of Democratic Vistas, and noted that 61 copies of that work were

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 23 October [1878]

  • Date: October 23, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Buxton Forman since it was among letters to Forman and Ernest Rhys which were acquired by the Berg Collection

Walt Whitman to Josiah Child, 9 August 1878

  • Date: August 9, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

what occurr'd—If convenient tell me— Ab't About the London Times ' comments on Mr Bryant's death (American

Annotations Text:

Putnam's Sons, 1902], 5:214–215), which appeared as "The Poetry of the Future" in The North American

Walt Whitman to John R. Johnston, Jr., 18 February 1878

  • Date: February 18, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

You ought to be here with me a day or so—(likely one day would be enough for you , as there is no city

Walt Whitman to John H. Johnston, 23 October [1878]

  • Date: October 23, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

This letter bears the address: J H Johnston | Jeweler | 150 Bowery cor Broome St | New York City.

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 29 March [1878]

  • Date: March 29, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

On May 1, Anne Gilchrist informed Burroughs that they were in Northampton, Massachusetts, and mentioned

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 11 March [1878]

  • Date: March 11, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman of May 25, 1865, and Wilson's Business Directory of New York City

Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 8 March [1878]

  • Date: March 8, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Since Whitman was in New York on this date in 1877, and since the Gilchrists were not in Philadelphia

Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 25 December [1878]

  • Date: December 25, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

This postal card is addressed: Herbert Gilchrist | 315 West 19th Street | New York City.

Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 18 March [1878]

  • Date: March 18, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

This may have been the account of "The American Water Color Society" in the New York Tribune of March

Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 10 May 1878

  • Date: May 10, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Monday & Tuesday last—expect to go down again Sunday—Just as I left your letter to Mrs S. arrived—All were

Annotations Text:

Wyatt Eaton (1849–1896), an American portrait and figure painter, organized the Society of American Artists

William Rudolph O'Donovan (1844–1920) was an American sculptor.

He was an associate of American artist Thomas Eakins and accompanied Eakins to Whitman's Camden home

Walt Whitman to Edward Carpenter, 1 September [1878]

  • Date: September 1, [1878]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

He was in Atlantic City on August 29 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E.

Walt Whitman to Beatrice Gilchrist, 30 August [1878]

  • Date: August 30, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

been at White Horse now for a fortnight) —My nieces are still with us (though just now at Atlantic City

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 22 February [1878]

  • Date: February 22, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

ride (did I tell you before)—Tuesday another, this time to a farm-auction , where all the neighbors were

lines, ask Herby—) I am glad Bee gets on so well (but I expected it) & my prayers might go up, (if it were

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 1 August [1878]

  • Date: August 1, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

If that were the case, the allusion to the lengthy letter to Herbert Gilchrist could clearly be to the

Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Correspondent, 30 December [1878?]

  • Date: December 30, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

The date and summary of the letter are drawn from an auction catalog put out by the American Art Association

wrote to her daughter Beatrice, who was in Boston, she had just moved to 112 Madison Avenue, New York City

Walt Whitman to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 9 August 1878

  • Date: August 9, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

edition—having rec'd received your subscription of 5£ (with an intimation from Robert Buchanan that no books were

loosing of corporeal ties not without their advantages, at last, if one reserve enough physique to as it were

Walt Whitman by Napoleon Sarony, July 6, 1878

  • Date: July 6, 1878
  • Creator(s): Sarony, Napoleon
Text:

Perhaps the first American “celebrity photographer,” Sarony made much of his money selling portraits

Walt Whitman by Napoleon Sarony, July 1878

  • Date: July 1878
  • Creator(s): Sarony, Napoleon
Text:

Perhaps the first American “celebrity photographer,” Sarony made much of his money selling portraits

Walt Whitman by Napoleon Sarony, July 1878

  • Date: July 1878
  • Creator(s): Sarony, Napoleon
Text:

Perhaps the first American “celebrity photographer,” Sarony made much of his money selling portraits

Walt Whitman by Napoleon Sarony, July 1878

  • Date: July 1878
  • Creator(s): Sarony, Napoleon
Text:

Perhaps the first American “celebrity photographer,” Sarony made much of his money selling portraits

Walt Whitman by Napoleon Sarony, 1878

  • Date: 1878
  • Creator(s): Sarony, Napoleon
Text:

Perhaps the first American “celebrity photographer,” Sarony made much of his money selling portraits

Walt Whitman and Harry Stafford by John Moran, ca. February 11, 1878

  • Date: ca. February 11, 1878
  • Creator(s): Moran, John, 1831–1903
Text:

During these years, when they were apart, Whitman wrote Harry intimate letters: "Dear Harry, not a day

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 27 October 1878

  • Date: October 27, 1878
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

OFFICE OF Water Commissioner, CITY HALL, (Market Street Entrance.) St.

been, probably, some 35 to 40 deaths by yellow fever during the season—out of this number some 6 or 8 were

from the South—or had been connected with the hospital boat that carries the sick people from the city

thing seems sure and that is that with proper sanitary laws—with good energetic health officers—no city

Annotations Text:

Only ten "local cases" of yellow fever were reported in St.

Because of the rapid growth of the city, the Bissell's Point Water Works was increasingly vulnerable

Susan Stafford to Walt Whitman, 4 April 1878

  • Date: April 4, 1878
  • Creator(s): Susan Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Supplement Hours

  • Date: about 1880
Text:

The lines that appear in this manuscript also were published posthumously as "Supplement Hours," a poem

Sky

  • Date: about 1878
Text:

Portions of this manuscript were revised and used in The Sky—Days and Nights—Happiness, first published

Notes where wild bees flitting hum

  • Date: about 1880
Text:

lines unpublished in Whitman's life, but which appeared in other manuscript drafts with lines that were

The lines that appear in this manuscript were published posthumously as part of a poem titled Supplement

Mrs. Siddons as Lady Macbeth

  • Date: After February 1, 1878; February 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | George Joseph Bell
Text:

cases requires skill more or less mechanical, which technical skill is often called 'art' as if there were

They were made in 1809, or about that time, and are contained in three volumes, lettered 'Siddons,' which

Exalted prophetic tone, as if the whole future were present to her soul.

UPPOSE an English Prime Minister were to persuade himself and a large section of the public that the

every circumstance of cruelty and indignity which could add bitterness to death; and suppose a bill were

Mary Van Nostrand to Walt Whitman, 16 March [1878]

  • Date: March 16, 1878
  • Creator(s): Mary Van Nostrand
Annotations Text:

Ted Genoways (Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2004), 7:145.

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 8 February 1878

  • Date: February 8, 1878
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

names to study anything, and I always distrusted getting right names from our composite, mongrel population

will say this—somebody had a curious story published in Blackwood's Magazine —it was copied by an American

Blackwoods for 1876, maybe you will find it, and need to be prepared to be indignant for I think you were

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 5 May 1878

  • Date: May 5, 1878
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

If I were rich I would insist that you should let me publish you in small parts with a little of comment

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 14 March [1878]

  • Date: March 14, 1878
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

on my other farm (B) is an old man (perhaps 60 or 62) a local Methodist preacher, hot tempered; exceeding

Two years ago this (kindly) "pedagogue" said he saw a Southern Newspaper then said you were cruel to

Memoranda statements of Southern cruelties, by stating how we suffered in Northern prisons—maybe you were

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 14 December 1878

  • Date: December 14, 1878
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

Well I thought you were so sick it would be little satisfaction to you—then since the price of cotton

think I am solid and sound—I'd like to loafe with you in a country place or library or through a city's

John M. Rogers to Walt Whitman, 21 February 1878

  • Date: February 21, 1878
  • Creator(s): John M. Rogers
Text:

I wish that you whare were that I could see you and comfort you.

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 3 February 1878

  • Date: February 3, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | John Burroughs | Horace Traubel
Annotations Text:

" 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

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 25 February 1878

  • Date: February 25, 1878
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Annotations Text:

" 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

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 11 July 1878

  • Date: July 11, 1878
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

He has been quite restless & sleepless, & we were both nearly worn out.

Annotations Text:

Ursula and John were married on September 12, 1857.

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 5 June 1878

  • Date: June 5, 1878
  • 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

Lucas and his wife were active in numerous professional and philanthropic organizations.

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 29 January 1878

  • Date: January 29, 1878
  • 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 July 1878

  • Date: July 27, 1878
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

some time past, I took a dose of it as soon as I got it I was when and told on I look I did perhaps were

We are having a fine rain to-night down here, it hasn't come too soon either things were kneeding needing

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, 26 March 1878

  • Date: March 26, 1878
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

Mother day, been she City before if she should no doubt but that she will stop in to see you on her her

Things are about as they were when you was down here, (any more than we have had a fearful storme storm

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, 26 August 1878

  • Date: August 26, 1878
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

Friday, of course I could not do it, but I was very sorry when I learned that you wer were not coming

Annotations Text:

The envelope for the letter bears the address: Walt Whitman | Camden City | N.J.

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 24 January 1878

  • Date: January 24, 1878
  • 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, 18 January 1878

  • Date: January 18, 1878
  • 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

The Gospel of Walt Whitman

  • Date: October 1878
  • Creator(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis
Text:

What he calls ‘Feudal Literature’ could have little living action on the tumult of American democracy

If verbal logic were sufficient, life would be as plain sailing as a piece of Euclid.

To glance with an eye, were it only at a chair or a park railing, is by far a more persuasive process

for city and land for land.

A statement which is among the happiest achievements of American humour.

George Parsons Lathrop to Walt Whitman, 20 April 1878

  • Date: April 20, 1878
  • Creator(s): George Parsons Lathrop
Annotations Text:

George Parsons Lathrop (1851–1898) was an American poet and novelist.

For more on him, see The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, ed.

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

The Roberts Brothers were bookbinders and publishers in Boston.

The firm began publishing around 1860.

Elmer E. Stafford to Walt Whitman, 11 January 1878

  • Date: January 11, 1878
  • Creator(s): Elmer E. Stafford
Text:

wile while but i have quit and I do not go any more anymore now I am at home I wanted to go to the city

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