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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

While answering freely, Walt wound up this part of the conversation by saying that those were problems

As for American poets, Mr.

The others present were Mrs.

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!

So much for his Americanism, which has an inherent meaning and a power, in spite of all that is said

There is certainly a thing which may be called Americanism.

The following verses were admiringly quoted by Prof.

country, and they were often in the habit of displaying their pugilistic accomplishments."

Quoted in Dictionary of Americanisms (1848).

Sidgwick and William Clifford were both members of "The Apostles," the famous elite literary society

gives this account of the origin of the term "Hoosier": "Throughout all the early Western settlements were

The boatmen of Indiana were formerly as rude and as primitive a set as could well belong to a civilized

country, and they were often in the habit of displaying their pugilistic accomplishments."

Quoted in Dictionary of Americanisms (1848).

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

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

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

and enlarged edition of W ALT W HITMAN 's "Leaves of Grass," they did the best thing possible for American

literature, and performed an act of justice towards the most thoroughly original of American bards.

immature and casual reader we would gladly obliterate, yet as a sign of the time when a distinctively American

splendid protest against the fine spun and sickly effeminacy of the A MANDA M ATILDA poetry of the American

. ∗ ∗ ∗ 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.

one can hope to understand from his book, or in any way except to go off tramping with him through cities

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's (1712-1778) (1782) were probably regarded as "coarse" because of Rousseau's candor

.; Jean-Jacques Rousseau's (1712-1778) Confessions (1782) were probably regarded as "coarse" because

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

. & 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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