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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

I hear from Percy that you are in better health than you were during the summer.

We were never before separated. It is a trial.

Until I came to Michigan, thirty years ago, all my surroundings were among Friends, twelve years at Roslyn

Two of these neighbors were the poet William Cullen Bryant and his wife (Krieg, 227).

Dowden, for instance, associates him with Shakespeare, and a recent commentator of American literature

It contains many of those brief, sketchily written notes on nature which were, it is apparent, jotted

of our Western world; and it includes, above all, those widely discussed prefaces, touching upon American

poetry to-day, and especially upon the future of American poetry, as this is viewed by Whitman.

, upon four American poets—Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, and Emerson.

.; The American poet and critic Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903) was part of a circle of genteel writers

the list, not merely because of my esteem for you personally, but because of your importance in American

reviews & magazines, &c, &c, & will doubtless embrace a number of the working men of letters in other cities

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

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

It is time, however, that an attempt were made to arrive at a sober estimate of his real value; and to

Nor does it mean that the merit of the author was quite unrecognized: on the contrary, by some who were

But the mass of his countrymen were not and are not strong enough to accept him; they have perhaps too

If we were asked for justification of the high estimate of this poet, which has been implied, if not

They themselves were fully at rest, they suffered not; The living remained and suffer'd.

The first writings of Carlyle and Emerson were despised and rejected; and yet these very writings have

had so profound an influence in forming the thought of our period, that it were impossible to imagine

It seems as if, so far, there were some natural repugnance between a literary and professional life,

A large part of the volume is occupied by Whitman's diary during the American War.

Some of the sketches were written as letters to friends during the war and afterwards.

She, like my mother's sister, are to me fine, lovable samples of American women—in whom, I mean, I detect

, like the distinctive aroma of a flower, something special—that is American—a decisive new quality to

Half-Paralytic"—these and other titles for his bundle of jottings, made during and after the war, were

Whitman's liking; and in his criticism of modern society, although at bottom he believes that the American

—these, with a few inevitable reserves, were all acceptable to, and accepted by, the author of Leaves

There were two or three I shall probably never forget.

Elsewhere there is eloquent recognition of the work done for American literature by Longfellow, Bryant

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

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

. & 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).

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

the Falls without change so that there would not be any difficulty in coming that far alone if you were

when the Red Birds and Yellow Birds, the Knickerbocker and Fourth avenue and the old Broadway lines were

The contents are brief essays or sketches, mostly fragmentary, many of them dated as if they were leaves

The several prefaces to , 1855, 1872, 1876, succeed; then the North American Review paper on "Poetry

Daniel Webster (1782-1852), the American orator and politician.

William Walker (1824-1860) was an American adventurer and soldier who attempted to conquer several Latin

American countries.

.; Daniel Webster (1782-1852), the American orator and politician.; Henry Clay (1777-1852) was an American

He was also Secretary of State from 1861-1869.; William Walker (1824-1860) was an American adventurer

and soldier who attempted to conquer several Latin American countries.

president of the Republic of Nicaragua from 1856-1857 and was executed by the government of Honduras in 1860

political reformer Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894)led Hungary's struggle for independence from Austria.; The American

while he was still in his teens are so melodramatic and unreal, that they would be unworthy of notice were

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

the spirit of civilized communism and socialism is not far enough removed from the minds of our American

But his greatest grievance is that there is no American literature, as such.

But Artemus Ward is as redolent of the American soil as Walt Whitman, and while he is not, in any sense

But granted that we have no distinctive American literature, with the exception of Walt Whitman himself

. ∗ ∗ ∗ The successive growth-stages of my infancy, childhood, youth and manhood were all pass'd on Long

He has visited Boston and the principal cities in Canada and in the West.

The hospital notes are printed in the slovenly shape in which they were written in his diary.

in his assertion of it he has imitated the owner of a forest who assured a lumberman that his trees were

Freeman to use in his essay on the peculiarities of American speech.

We were all glad to know that the statement was wrong although as the time passed and I had an opportunity

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

He has the American vice of smartness & flippancy. I do not think you would care for the piece.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

stoppage and never can be stoppage, If I, you, and the worlds, and all beneath or upon their surfaces, Were

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

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

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

"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.

from the modern Athens he now appears undimmed and, it is to be hoped, victorious in the neighbor city

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

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

We had a fine voyage over, such the American sun & climate in mid-ocean—clean, bright, hot, a sea of

I had a jolly game of tennis on their lawn,—a lawn such as you Americans dont don't dream of!!

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

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

Hugo's protest against the disapprobation of those French critics whose conventional imaginations were

very much disturbed by the astonishing leaps through time and space that were made by this untrammelled

"I assert that all fast days were what they must have been, And that they could no-how have been better

than what they were, And that to-day is what it must be, and that America is, And that to-day and America

Aug 12 188 2 My dear Walt— Nine years ago, I delivered before a German Society of New York City a lecture

on American literature, in which a great deal was said about you.

I have been staying here for a week, and shall leave in two or three days: but back in the city about

literary folk will be glad that Walt Whitman has found his publisher, and that the interests of American

This book is an American classic. [Leaves of Grass By Walt Whitman. Philadelphia, Rees, Welsh & Co.

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

Further publication of Walt Whitman's collected poems having been interdicted in Boston, the plates were

Rees Welsh & Co., of Philadelphia, whose advance orders exceeded their first edition, a copy of which

'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

Whitman is an American Naturalist, quite as reckless as Zola or Maupassant, but withal infinitely less

The chief difference between the American Naturalist and his ultra-Atlantic brethren, is that he does

Whitman has fully equalled, if not exceeded the extant writers of antiquity, and has used phraseology

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

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