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New York Tribune to say you were in Canada (not Camden) and intended to remain North some time: then

Even in his younger days, there is the best of evidence that his habits were correct, and his conversation

The "Amens" were uttered by a person immediately to the left of Mr.

Another: Not long since the Inquirer of this city published a lengthy article on cremation, giving interviews

elderly, full-bearded, gray haired artist has for years been frequenting the barrooms and hotels of this city

" 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

sent in the same manner as this to several other papers in Canada & The States—(no two papers in same city

all the way, 800 miles, by good steamboat—(the doctor thinks it will do me good)—This is a splendid city

Hiskey's fellow employees on the Camden ferries, many of whom were cited in Specimen Days, ed.

Whitman's printed accounts of his activities in Canada were more colorful than his personal letters,

went on like a streak through New York and Pennsylvania—got into Philadelphia after 11 at night—(we were

an hour late,)—but the city looked bright & all alive, & I felt as fresh as a lark— I am well, my summer

with the Staffords from October 9 to 13, not at the seashore, unless he was with Harry in Atlantic City

These young men, like Nicholson, were employees in Richard Bucke's hospital.

This letter bears the address: Thos: J Whitman | office Water Commissioner | City Hall | St Louis | Missouri

is a singularly healthy, beautiful interesting country, this Canada, (it is as large as the U S—population

This letter bears the address: R W Gilder | Scribner's Magazine office | 743 Broadway | New York City

Broadway New York about a year ago bo't bought at auction the electrotype plates (456 pages) of the 1860

by a young firm Thayer & Eldridge under my supervision there and then in Boston, (in the spring of 1860

stored away and nothing further done;—till about a year ago (latter part of 1879) they were put up in

N Y New York city by Leavitt, auctioneer, & bought in by said Worthington.

I wrote back that said plates were worthless, being superseded by a larger & different edition—that I

Worthington bought the plates of the 1860 edition after they had been sold at auction by George A.

Richard Maurice Bucke informed Eldridge that he had lately discovered many copies of the 1860 edition

to be reimbursed: "I expended $9.50 in pursuit of the recalcitrant, pirate Worthington, in New York City

willing to go to law at someone else's expense.Worthington continued to use the plates until they were

This letter is addressed: R W Gilder | office Scribner's Magazine | 743 Broadway | New York City.

Ewart, of New York City, it is probable that this note accompanied the volumes (Charles E.

Canada August 4 '80 Dear Mont I have come on here (about 500 miles further) & am stopping in this city

—This is a large & busy city, the most important in Canada, ships and steamboats & immense numbers of

(you will see it on the map of Canada toward north east)—then back again to stay awhile in the old city

I am writing this on Lake Huron—I am well so far—every body kind & hospitable—Al, I wish you were with

Johnston jeweler | 150 Bowery cor: Broome St | New York City U S A.

print any notes of my jaunt yet—I am well, considering— —Addington Symonds has sent me a copy of the American

Bathgate, to whom the books were sent on February 19 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E.

The second that this truth is asserted with an especial colour of American egotism which good English

Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library).

peaceful Sunday—woods, field, sky, delightful—The S[tafford]s much as usual—Mrs S quite well—if you were

hours—Nothing new here—Your folks have been up to town twice this week—Van once & your father once—they were

Harry was working at the time in Atlantic City, N.J.

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

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

In January 1881, Whitman sent copies of his article in The North American Review, "The Poetry of the

wish you could know my dear friend Mrs Gilchrist & her family, now 5 Mount Vernon, Hampstead—they were

His trips "on the water" were confined to his rides on the ferry from Camden to Philadelphia.

This letter is addressed: Charles W Post | Care of B D Buford & Co: | Kansas City | Missouri.

I wish one of those old red Market Ferry Cars were going to land you at our door once more!

This postal card is addressed: Al: Johnston | 1309 Fifth anvenue | New York City | U S A.

not suited for the expression of American democracy and American manhood.

The great painters were as willing to paint a blacksmith as a lord.

How monotonous it would become, how tired the ear would get of it, if it were regular!

"That any American woman should say, 'Ah, me!

It pleased him very much, yet the tears were in his eyes. He asked me if I enjoyed religion.

How he Commenced to Write and the Way his Works were Received.

"How did you know we were aboard the train?"

You may say, in fact, that with true American instinct I feel like lecturing.

"Thought you were throwing away your life, did they?" asked the doctor.

Legally, however, the blacks were slaves.

He is in love with Denver City, and speaks admiringly of Missouri and Indiana.

Whitman's 'Calamus' Photographs" in Betsy Erkkila and Jay Grossman, Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

not quite suited for the expression of American democracy and American manhood.

The man, the American man, the laborer, boatman, and mechanic.

The great painters were as willing to paint a blacksmith as a lord.

How monotonous it would become—how tired the ears would get of it—if it were regular.

(Query—Why only American?) Bryant he likes.

of countless squads of vagabond children, the hideousness and squalor of certain quarters of the cities

Revenue department at Washington, who is led by the course of his employment to regularly visit the cities

The great cities reek with respectable as much as non-respectable robbery and scoundrelism.

He found the average American in the United States' armies, under pressure of want, disease, danger,

If a motto were to be chosen for "The Two Rivulets," and for Walt Whitman generally, it should be that

revised, partial draft of A Memorandum at a Venture, first published in the June 1882 issue of North American

They are the American poetry which the Old World has been challenging us so long to produce; they "stir

himself in the universe, saying "Here at least, in the spirit, I have freedom and empire inalienable," were

I saw in the 'Academy' a paragraph saying that you were going to write something about the English poets

mean English- writing poets for I should greatly like to hear some of your definite ideas about the Americans

To say the truth, I never could quite accept your utter condemnation of all American authors, expressed

And do not the Americans do this also, to a certain extent?

See Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995

See Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995

Stedman (1833–1908), the American poet and critic, wrote "Walt Whitman" for Scribner's Monthly, 21 (November

he early took the position of an iconoclast, avowing that the time had come in which to create an American

deal better this summer than usual the Boys are all well Harry has not been in the store since you were

in the essay "The Poetry of the Future" first published in the February 1881 issue of The North American

This manuscript also includes lines that were used in Specimen Days & Collect, see the description for

On verso detached from Leaves of Grass, part of Poem of Joys, first published in the 1860 edition of

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

(New York: American News Company, 1867); "The Flight of the Eagle," Birds and Poets (Boston: Houghton

And please do not write as if you were praising or blaming him, but set down, in the simplest and most

(See Artem Lozynsky, "Walt Whitman in Canada," American Book Collector 23 [July–August 1973], 21-23).

place when you come back you will remember that we had a new Rail Road under way running to Atlantic City

I saw old Col Colonel Johnson and Doctor Ridge last night they were blowing for Gen General Hancock Doctor

Ridge says he has been to New York and that New York city will give Hancock one hundred thousand majority

one about your arival arrival in London and a very good account of you us US fellows your friends were

See The New-York Historical Society Dictionary of Artists in America, 1564–1860 (New Haven: Yale University