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European kings removed, I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;) Never were

the scaffold;) I would sing in my copious song your census returns of the States, The tables of population

A WOMAN waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking,

or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.

that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception, I assert that all past days were

what they must have been, And that they could no-how have been better than they were, And that to-day

North American Review.

I think (though I am not sure) that an article on it will appear in The American soon, by a couple of

But I have never wondered that you were caviare to the general; because, although I see clearly that

Pieces that were evidently written later, and intended to be eventually put under Leaves of Grass now

Hence, at one time, our admiration for orators that were ornate to the verge of inanity.

Dire were the grimaces of the mourners in high places, and dire are their grimaces still.

There were plenty of criticisms to make, even after one had finished crying Oh!

A cardinal sin in the eyes of most critics is the use of French, Spanish, and American-Spanish words

wast not granted to sing thou would'st surely die.) 5 Over the breast of the spring, the land, amid cities

day and night with the great cloud darkening the land, With the pomp of the inloop'd flags with the cities

not what kept me from sleep,) As the night advanced, and I saw on the rim of the west how full you were

and there, With ranging hills on the banks, with many a line against the sky, and shadows, And the city

men, I saw them, I saw the debris and debris of all the slain soldiers of the war, But I saw they were

Through youth and through middle and old age, how unfaltering, how affectionate and faithful they were

WHEN I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,

capitol, still it was not a happy night for me that follow'd, And else when I carous'd, or when my plans were

Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me?

all to the front, Invisibly with thee walking with kings with even pace the round world's promenade, Were

We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd. WE TWO, HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D.

WE two, how long we were fool'd, Now transmuted, we swiftly escape as Nature escapes, We are Nature,

, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities

unknown be- fore before , Subtler than ever, more harmony, as if born here, related here, Not to the city's

all to the front, Invisibly with thee walking with kings with even pace the round world's promenade, Were

The publishers were capital fellows.

I like the city itself exceedingly, and I think it will in a short time become a cosmopolitan city such

I cannot class it with other cities, and you must not compel me to talk about it.

No copies w orth me ntioning were sold of any issue.

"You have eliminated, then, none of the lines which were deemed objectionable?"

of Walt Whitman, who, some will have it, is by preeminence of art and nature our representative American

deepest ethical instincts of a great multitude—we should certainly hope the vast majority of those American

Would it were as clean! In form he reminds us of Martin Farquhar Tupper.

Yet the prevalent tone of his verses is curiously Asiatic, as though he were an incarnation of Brahma

and were not.

It if were possible to see the genius of a great people throwing itself now into this form, now into

In his volume all the objectionable passages which were the cause of so much complaint at the time of

range and diversity—always the continent of Democracy; Always the prairies, pastures, forests, vast cities

Their eulogies, however, were rather on the thoughts and sentiments of the author than praise of his

Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at

Phidias and Raphael and Beethoven were judged in accordance with the merits of what they produced.

correspondence with William Sloane Kennedy (1850–1929), who at this time was on the staff of the Philadelphia American

, and who later published biographies of Longfellow and Whittier (Dictionary of American Biography).

U S America Boston, Oct October 5 188 1 Trübner & Co : Dear Sirs Osgood & Co: of this city, who have

here is a New York paper with an acc't account of the great Cricket Match between the Canadians and Americans—I

According to the New York Times, the Canadians defeated an American cricket team on October 11.

Richard Maurice Bucke in Jersey City, N.J., on July 23 (Whitman's Commonplace Book).

brighter now—I am feeling pretty well—went out around yesterday & last night—great bright stirring city

Mott avenue & 149th Street Station L New York City Aug: August 8 '81 1881 My dear Baxter Yours rec'd

three or four copies here (see above)—please mail one to E C Stedman 71 West 54th Street New York City

would have suited you, & been a study—different from any I ever saw in my life before—fully one half were

Stafford's nephew, were married on February 9 by the Reverend J. B.

Theodore and William Heiniken (or Hieniken) were apparently brothers or perhaps son and father; see the

We had a jolly time too—there were three hundred came & went—at 10 o'clock we had a supper—but one such

stop— Walt Whitman my address here for ten days will be Mott av: & 149 th street—Station L New York City

City.

Lawrence lived at 81 Park Avenue, New York City.

In the first printing of the 1876 edition of Leaves of Grass some poems were pasted in: these intercalations

letter from Whitman to Harry Stafford of January 2, 1881); praised Emerson as the most important American

direct to me Mott avenue & 149 th street—Station L, New York City (same as before I went on to Boston

attended a performance of Romeo and Juliet starring Ernesto Rossi, the Italian actor, who was on an American

to the report, undoubtedly written by Whitman, in the Boston Daily Advertiser on October 17, there were

Lewis T. and Percy Ives were father and son, both artists.

This letter bears the address: John H Johnston | Jeweler | 150 Bowery | New York City.

You Russians and we Americans;—our countries so distant, so unlike at first glance—such a difference

great community, so vehement, so mysterious, so abysmic—are certainly features you Russians and we Americans

5 East 65th Street New York City Evn'g Evening Aug August 3d 3rd Your postal of 29th rec'd received —

Richard Maurice Bucke and Thomas Nicholson in Jersey City on July 23, and went to Woodside, Long Island

On August 1 he went to New York City, where he stayed with Edgar M.

rec'd received —I am now back here finishing up—only stayed staid a few days in Concord, but they were

ever—more indeed than could be described—Wasn't it comforting that I have had—in the sunset as it were—so

New York in about a week—shall stay at Johnston's, (address me there Mott avenue & 149th street N Y city

there (by pressing invitation) to dinner, & two hours—a wonderfully good two hours—the whole family were

A criticism of "The Poetry of the Future" appeared in The American (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles

With the cooperation of yourself and other American thinkers of the first note, the Review must become

Mott avenue & 149th street Station L New York City —I am stopping here till until ab't about Aug: August

This letter is addressed: J L Gilder | Editor Critic | 757 Broadway | New York City.

CITY.

Ever prolific, Whitman wrote a piece about Mott Haven, entitled "City Notes in August," which he published

After the poem was rejected by The North American Review, Whitman sent it on May 28 to Jeannette Gilder

Whitman described Mott Haven in the New York Tribune on August 15 in "City Notes in August."

The "proof slips" were sent to William Michael Rossetti, Mrs. Franklin B.

— —In the Feb: February N A North American Review there is a piece of mine about Poetry (a good many

Charles Allen Thorndike Rice (1851–1889) purchased The North American Review in 1876.

Later the decree was altered, and O'Reilly was sent to Australia, where he escaped on an American whaler

from the beginning) but by superiority, additions, modernness, &c—The Thayer & Eldridge plates of 1860

copies—can be stopt stopped instantly by me & will be—(The matter is not of any moment however)—The plates were

On May 16, 1881, Beers wrote to thank Whitman for quoting his verses in The American on May 14: "To a

Similar reservations appear in his Four Americans (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919), 85–90.

Daily Globe (see the letter from Whitman to Louisa Orr Whitman of August 27, 1881), and his article "City

(at $1 a head) & they say there never was a more high toned crowd collected in the town—full half were

Y. papers —(will send you the Critic of the latter city next Monday or Tuesday with my piece in)— Havn't

Haven't felt very well lately—a real bad spell last night & this forenoon—don't feel right living in the city

Balch of The American (Philadelphia), for which he received $20 (Whitman's Commonplace Book).

Picture-Gallery" to Balch on October 8, 1880, for which he received $5, and which appeared in The American