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Thoreau, he said, was equally, or nearly equally, strong in favor of Leaves of Grass, and so were the

ardently believing in your book, "fresh, vehement and true," as Thomas Davis says the Irish guard were

us—perhaps I—will have the grand closing word, solemn as life, copious as the tempest, in the North American

I composed the article under great affliction, for as the devil would have it, there were several days

I wish I were not so driven with work, and felt well.

I will try to get the "American Queen" ("spell it with an a," as I once heard Horace Mann say sarcastically

I am glad you are to have an article in the North American , and only wish it were to be longer.

I only wish I were not tied up as I am with this weary office, and work monstrous and endless, as it

of an item I saw in the Critic here, last evening as I rode up in the street cars, stating that you were

But they were all wrong—it was an engorged liver, which the battery relieved instanter, and the lady

putting in identity of the wayside itemizings, memoranda and personal notes of 50 years under modern American

(To city man, or some sweet parlor lady, I now talk.)

The others surrender'd; the odds were too great.)

The rebels were driven out in a very short time.

You Russians and we Americans!

Evn'g May 12 '82 Dear Sir Yours of yesterday rec'd received —I could send the MS of Carlyle from an American

exigencies & judgment—no condition at all— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to the Editor of The North American

The North American Review also rejected "The Prairies in Poetry" which the poet submitted on May 4 and

professor of English literature at Columbia University from 1892 to 1924, included the poem in Poems of American

On the Cumberland Street house, see the letter from Whitman to Frederick Baker of April 24, 1860.

This post card is addressed: J H Johnston | Jeweler | 150 Bowery | New York City.

— —The next N A North American Review (June number) will have a piece A Memorandum at a Venture signed

On May 1, Burroughs wrote to Gilder, probably Richard, "So far as this is the wish of the city of Boston

Burroughs and Traubel, however, were in error, for on January 27, 1883, Whitman noted: "returned $100

Every young man ought to explore something of the outside world,—especially of our American country &

write to you again— —I got a letter from Ruth four days ago, & saw Muller yesterday—all your folks were

Stoddart's Encyclopaedia America; established Stoddart's Review in 1880, which was merged with The American

'81, (herewith enclosed) you tallied all my several copyrights for " Leaves of Grass "— except the 1860

is endorsed: "Aug 1 '82 | sent to Librarian of Congress | ans'd—see note | copyright entrance of | 1860

On August 2, 1882, Spofford, the Librarian of Congress, acknowledged that the 1860 edition had been entered

an extra bad spell & forbidden to go out nights this weather— Please give my hearty salutation & American

The address and the text of the note were cut out and pasted on the flyleaves of Rolleston's copy of

Goldsmith estimated that only fifty copies of this "edition" were issued (Clara Barrus, Whitman and Burroughs—Comrades

The envelope is addressed: J L & J B Gilder | Critic | office | 30 Lafayette Place | New York City.

With additions he republished it as "Robert Burns as Poet and Person" in The North American Review, 143

As of December 1, 1882, 4,900 copies of Leaves of Grass had been printed, of which 3,118 were sold.

Only 1,000 copies of Specimen Days were printed and 925 copies sold; the return to Whitman was $203.50

office of the Philadelphia Press when Whitman's contribution arrived and that it was declined; see American

He was the author of many books and articles on German-American affairs and was superintendent of German

See The American-German Review, 8 (December, 1946), 27–30.

In 1883, Knortz was living in New York City.

Thoreau appeared in the "American Men of Letters" series in 1882.

B. secures the American copyright A royalty of to be paid Dr B.

Rees Welsh & Co. agreed to Whitman's terms on June 21 with two stipulations: they were unwilling to accept

The whole MS. was far, far far too redundant—some things were often repeated three or four times—several

long passages (very likely those you had set your heart on) were very much better out than in.

Others would have been nuts to the caricature baboons—There were many errors or half-errors of fact.

. & 155th Street | New York City. It is postmarked: Camden | Nov | 14 | 2 PM | N.J.; P.

Leaves of Grass Imprints (Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860).

This letter is addressed: Karl Knortz | cor: Morris Av: & 155th St: | New York City.

Riley and Bathgate were friends of Ruskin (see Whitman's letter to Riley of March 18, 1879 and his letter

article A Memorandum at a Venture 5 or 6 pages signed by my name in the forthcoming June number North American

own price given) —the newspapers specially like to have something up at the moment —this N A North American

Osgood & Co. wrote to me last May ('81) asking about a new & complete edition & suggesting that they were

was intended to be left out or expurgated—that the book must be printed in its entirety & that those were

me that the pieces the District Attorney specially & absolutely required to be entirely expurgated were

chance it affords to ventilate the real account & true inwardness of that Emerson talk on the Common in 1860

What were Emersons Emerson's relations to Walt Whitman?

And my arriere and citadel positions—such as I have indicated in my June North American Review memorandum

—were not only not attacked, they were not even alluded to.

Certain am I that he too finally came to clearly feel that the "Children of Adam" pieces were inevitable

As I wrote you before, the betes noir were To a common prostitute and A woman waits for me .

Unless those were left out he was instructed to indict and arrest to the law's extremity.

told you that Osgood & Co. formally notified me that they would continue the publication if those were

Marston is the target for you —If I learn more I will notify you— WW Have you seen my N A North American

those passions, joys, workings &c in all the race , at least as shown under modern & especially American

identity of the wayward itemizings, memoranda, and personal notes of fifty years, under modern & American

D. sales rather sluggish—(1500 were printed, towards 400 remain on the shelves in 23 Ninth St.)

Only 1,000 copies of Specimen Days were printed in 1882 (see Whitman's letter to Anne Gilchrist of October

This letter is addressed: J L & J B Gilder | Critic office | 30 Lafayette Place | New York City.

When Mr Whitman was in Boston in 1860 Emerson was his frequent & cordial visitor.

evidently thinks that if the author of Leaves of Grass had any case to state, that walk on the common in 1860

Though Emerson's points were of the highest and keenest order, they sprang exclusively from conventional

Boston, 1881), 233–234; but it was obvious that Cooke's remarks about the relations between the two men were

themselves (O & Co) had some hand in the Marston-Stevens proceeding & rather egged it on—that they were

Winter, the drama critic of the New York Tribune, and Stoddard, a writer and reviewer, were old enemies

The famous 1860 stroll in the Boston Common (see the letter from Whitman to Abby M.

Price of March 29, 1860).

versed, I am well satisfied with R W & Co. and my prospect with them—Though Thursday & Friday last were

On June 29 O'Connor informed Whitman that Ingersoll and he were drawing up a memorandum for the Postmaster

On August 27 he wrote to O'Connor that Rees Welsh & Co. were "paying out their 3d edition."

cautious printed only 1000) began to come in from the bindery late that day—Early this forenoon they were

"American Queen" of yesterday— W W Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 17 September [1882]

No copy of the New York American Queen has been located.

Whitman noted in his Commonplace Book this letter to Rand & Avery, the firm which had printed the 1860

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

As we were all roped together—two guides and ourselves, he was extricated without much damage.

and come thundering down into the valley, hurling huge fragments & splinters into the air as if they were

confirmed by seeing that a perceptible 'disillusionment' has already made its appearance among many who were

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

despised—or if it happens to escape that fate is overtaken by a still worse one, in being lauded as if it were

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