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Walt Whitman by Potter and Co., 1882 George C.

Potter, who took an early 1870s photograph of Whitman in Washington, had moved to Philadelphia by this

One day Horace Traubel saw one of these three photos in a glass case in front of the Potter and Co. studio

The Potter picture is startling but it is not good—it don't hit me'" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman

Potter, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers."

Walt Whitman by Potter and Co., 1882 George C.

Potter, who took an early 1870s photograph of Whitman in Washington, had moved to Philadelphia by this

One day Horace Traubel saw one of these three photos in a glass case in front of the Potter and Co. studio

The Potter picture is startling but it is not good—it don't hit me'" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman

Potter, see "Notes on Whitman's Photographers."

Some steps should be at once taken for the republication of your book, from the same plates, in the same

not believe a jury could be found in Massachusetts to send the publisher of "Leaves of Grass" to prison

If I had the means, I would gladly, with your permission, put your book on the market advertised as the

If you will find parties to furnish the means for republication from your plates, advertising the book

, and defending it in court, I will become the responsible publisher, and go to prison if necessary.

Camden Sunday Sept: 10 Dear Harry Thanks for your good letter—I have had my hands full the last six or

eight weeks getting my new book in shape, seeing to every thing, and watching the proofs day & night

my god to Thee"—how beautiful it sounds— Love to you my darling young brother W.W.— Walt Whitman to Harry

Camden Jan: 25 '82 Dear Harry Yours rec'd received —I am just starting off a few miles out from Phila

Philadelphia —probably a day or two only —will look up the book you require (if I can find one) soon

knows that about himself—I do)—God bless you my darling boy—Keep a brave heart— W W Walt Whitman to Harry

There is no reference in Whitman's Commonplace Book to a visit to one of his friends (Charles E.

more necessary now as quite a set-back & very bad piece of luck has happened to me in my new Boston book—but

words or writing can describe—I wish Jo and Debby to see this letter—& I send them my love— —I suppose Harry

bundles of papers —They say the old C & A Atlantic road have bought the Narrow Gauge—will that affect Harry's

blessed sleep—I don't know what Ed would be doing, but I can fancy Mont reading some of Mrs Holmes's books

Whitman sent "papers" to Harry on May 7 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E.

Rogers's home at 431 Linden Street, Camden (Whitman's Commonplace Book). Mrs.

times—I was over to the creek and by the old walnut-trees last week—all beautiful & refreshing as ever— Harry

to-day for store goods—Do you know of David Bogue, bookseller, Trafalgar Sq: Square who publishes my book

to them the frequenter & stronger they get until at last they take complete possession of a fellow—Harry

will be sure to reach you & not miss—like the other I wanted you to get— Your old W W Walt Whitman to Harry

In 1881 Whitman noted Harry's address as "care of T B Gibbs—Berlin N J" (Whitman's Commonplace Book,

expected to come down myself, or send word—but one thing or another delays the publication of my new book

equinoctial storm—but I just wish I was down there this minute—a day there in the woods— —Where my books

are now publish'd published is 23 South 9th Street, Philadelphia (not far from Leary's book store)—and

there I go for an hour or two or three, every day if I like—the whole building is stuff'd stuffed with books

new with me—I still keep well—eat my rations every time—I havn't haven't seen or heard any thing of Harry

went to Glendale on September 30, Saturday, and remained there until October 3 (Whitman's Commonplace Book

(as they say down south) I got a long nice letter from Harry yesterday—he is well & hearty & seems to

be having good times—I shall write to him to-day—Well the work on my new book "Specimen Days" is finished

March 27 '82 Dear Al First—Love to you and all, May, Bertha, Grace, Kittie & Harry—Second, sorry to hear

indeed welcomed —A wretchedly dull forenoon, cold & dark, & so slippery, drizzling outside I am prisoned

Less a man of books, more a man of men,—less a recluse, more a man of the world,—than either Carlyle

certainly is—a man of vast reading, fulfilled more than most students with what is to be had from books

a certain breadth of historic grandeur, of peace or war, far surpassing all the vaunted samples of book-heroes

dysentery, inflammations, and blackest and loathsomest of all, the dead and living burial-pits, the prison

(not Dante's pictured hell, and all its woes, its degradations, filthy torments, excell'd those prisons

but very little—not only summer but all seasons—not only days but nights—some literary meditations—books

—or may-be in sick room or prison—to serve as cooling breeze, or Nature's aroma, to some fever'd mouth

Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel (1834-1894) was an English poet; his best-known book of verse was A Little

.; Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel (1834-1894) was an English poet; his best-known book of verse was

We are not at present informed what portions of the book are objected to.

We are given to understand that if certain parts of the book should be withdrawn its further circulation

Osgood and Company, Gentlemen; Our attention has been officially directed to a certain book entitled

We are of the opinion that this book is such a book as brings it within the provisions of the Public

The Effort of Attorney-General Marston to Suppress the Book.

obedience to the official command of Attorney-General Marston of Massachusetts, who classified the book

The book, it will be remembered, was published in Boston in September. In conversation today, Mr.

notified Osgood & Co. that he should bring suit against them to stop the circulation of Whitman's book

entitled "To a Common Prostitute" and "A Woman Waits for Me" the official would be satisfied and the book

The argument is as follows; if there is a case against the book in its existing form it is not removed

do not attempt to express an opinion on the point of whether there is a case against the original book

But we certainly do think that if there such a case it would lie with almost equal force against the book

the official authorities there seems no alternative for us but to decline to further circulate the book

Whitman's 'Specimen Days and Collect' is a book to be picked up at an odd moment and read in instalments

Here at last is a book by Walt Whitman, in whose pages no mawkish morality and squinting prudery can

It is not an easy book to characterize, but it is a book which every lover of our literature will prize

Dear Walt: I got your card of the 6th, and duly the new edition of the book arrived, for which I am much

has been until yesterday so fearfully oppressive that I have unwittingly delayed acknowledging the book

I only asked because I saw Welsh dealt in old books.

I can hardly doubt that Bacon is the true author—the book so fits into his scheme.

Bucke has written me about his book. Can anything be done to make Rees Welsh publish it?

not in the front rank at all, but young, experienced, & I guess square & the proposition to take the book

from them)—Rees Welsh & Co: Company 23 south 9th st: street Phila: Philadelphia (dealers in 2d hand books

& pub: publishers of law books & some others)— Satisfactory to me, as I see at present, & in prospect

Bucke's book also—& I think will do so—though they have not pledged themselves— By what I hear since

OLD BOOKS BOUGHT.

It would be our aim (if having control of the book) to put it before the trade at once , so that every

bookseller might know, before the fall trade opens, that the book can be had regularly, this would of

Wendell Phillips, turning the pages of the book, remarked, "Here seem to be all sorts of leaves except

On the reverse the reader was informed that the book had been duly "Entered according to act of Congress

The book was not "published" in the official sense.

The book, however, was misunderstood, as was to have been expected. Mr.

Of indecency, of essential grossness, there is in the book really nothing.

Walt Whitman's new book, "Specimen Days and Collect" is a literary curiosity made up of extracts from

fragments of essays and correspondence; scraps written for newspapers; samples from his commonplace book

Added to this, in a second part of the book, are "Democratic Vistas," the long essay written for one

OLD BOOKS BOUGHT.

Replying to your favor of 20th, The terms regarding "Leaves of Grass" are satisfactory, we publishing the books

Did you get from HM&Co the dies used by them for stamping cover of the book?

what the scoundrel postmaster at Boston, Tobey, has done to him—stopped his lecture on you and your book

After stopping the book, they will stop discussion! Here is a text.

Don't forget to tell me the price of your book when you write next.

but found it vexatious from the start, & having quite vehement proposals from Rees Welsh, (2d hand book

dealer & law book publisher) 23 South 9th St.

a leisure hour reel me off a letter—put in Mrs Gilchrist and Herbert—Dr Bucke is keeping back his book

According to Bucke's letter to O'Connor on October 14, he was withholding his book at Whitman's suggestion

The book has nearly four hundred pages of close print.

One object of the book is to inspire the reader with a desire to enlist in this limited and peripatetic

The corruption exposed in this book would "infect to the North Star."

The object of the book is to deify impulse and lawlessness.

Sold at the book stores.

Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Nov: November 15 '82 The return'd returned Scribner, R Schmidt's book

Dr R M Bucke, of London, Ontario, Canada, is preparing a book about me, in which he is going to reprint

OLD BOOKS BOUGHT.

day while in the store, that you had not, as yet, made arrangements for another publisher, for your book

the $10, hereby receipted — I appreciate the "Dogberry" article not only for its bearing on me & my book—it

from Boston the handsomely published " Essays "—hearty thanks to the writer of the criticism last of book

Camden N J Aug: August 27 All going on well with me—the type-setting of my new prose book "Specimen Days

" will be all finished the coming week & the book out in ten days afterward—same size, price, type, binding

Many are the books I have read and recommended to the world of seekers for knowledge, truth and wisdom

This wonderful book is "Leaves of Grass!"

I feel that I can not do better justice to the book than to give an extract from a lecture on it delivered

"Leaves of Grass" I heard him give myself, while I was in Boston, and it determined me to buy the book

I shall be glad to fill orders for this book of books.

I have not seen any notices of the book yet.

I have just recd received an English book— Familiar Studies of men & books —by Stevenson with an essay

I think you know that the present of the (largesize) book will be (is) appreciated by me—I am also very

Rudolph Schmidt sent me a copy of his book containing his article on Walt Whitman I have put it in the

less desirable—I hope S.D. will sell and that Rees Welsh & Co. will feel disposed to take hold of my book

It was a splendid point to make, that the letter appeared verbatim in a book issued with Emerson's own

But at the last, I thought it would be prudent to see the book, and there was the letter sure enough,

Fortunately, there is not a word in the preface to show that the book had Emerson's sanction,—but just

If I had said that the letter was reprinted in a book with Emerson's sanction, Chadwick would have had

One from Bucke, quite jubilant over my letter, and telling me the fix I have got his book into, which

should like some publishing & radiating spot near my own locality—for another to retain control of my book

to publish my Prose writings in a companion volume to L of G—Then there is a Canada man who has a book

Rees Welsh & Co., booksellers and publishers, wrote to Whitman on June 5 offering to print his book.

Whitman wrote to Richard Maurice Bucke on June 10 "ab't 'motif' of his book & ab't printing in Phila"

(Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E.

Up to the present time the royalty due to you on the sales of the book amounts to $405.50.

have cost us about $475. including the steel portrait, and we have on hand about 225 copies of the book

Glad to hear your other book is near the launch.

He thinks better of your book than he dares to write. But such cowardice is simply shameful.

Is there any chance of Rees Welsh printing Bucke's book? I wish it might be done.

Camden New Jersey March 21 '82 Dear Sirs Yours of 20th rec'd received , ab't about Dr Bucke's book.

In that case there would be three Volumes gyrating together, the L of G—the S D & T—and Dr Bucke's book

— Upon the whole, & as my friend seems determined to bring out his book, I hope you will take it.

On March 20, Osgood & Co. wrote about Bucke's biography: "We do not know whether the book would appeal

WHITMAN'S NEW BOOK. The Prose Writings of the "Good Gray Poet." A Twin Volume to "Leaves of Grass."

Walt Whitman's new book, with the odd, but thoroughly characteristic and descriptive title, "Specimen

Had "Leaves of Grass" never been written this book alone would be enough to establish the author's fame

Indeed, too much stress cannot be laid upon this phase of the book.

Whitman's New Book

imagination which would gloat over Whitman's virile lines would find rot to feed on in the best of books

Here, let it be said, however, that Leaves of Grass, as it stands, is not a book for girls or children

Glad to hear your prose book is so well advanced and that the third edition of the "Leaves" is flying

Rees Welsh & Co must take care not to get left, but have the books on hand, for I think by September

It is the title of a book that has been challenged by the conservers of public morals as unfit to be

As usual in such cases, the reaction increased the demand for the book to such an extent that several

The book is full of such salt-sea breezes of expression as these: O the joy of a manly selfhood!

And is there nothing in the book to condemn?

A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

proposition is that we at once make the revision here indicated, & go on with the regular issue of the book—If

house—no talk or information that may lead to newspaper items—the change to be just silently made—the book

Though a stranger to you, in your Book you have been my friend, and so I salute you.

, could you come; and that you would also be delighted, the sweet and beautiful Philosophy of your Book

Gilchrist of Hampstead showed me yesterday a new book of yours which I have not got.

tell me what the price is, or if you prefer it, tell me what the price is first and let me have the book

On the letter, Whitman noted "book sent $3 due" and, with a different pen, "paid."

David McKay —has formally bo't bought out & assumed R W's miscellaneous & publishing & secondhand books

very warm notice, very judicious extracts (Sylvanus Baxter, author) —the best I have seen from the book's

least to give some living touches and contact-points—I was quite willing to make an immensely negative book

Yet The Critic reported on October 21 that the book had been sold out before publication.

On November 9 Whitman sold his lot at 460 Royden Street for $525 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Feinberg

Camden N J Sept: September 6 I cheerfully give permission to print "O Captain My Captain" in your book

Camden New Jersey May 24 '82 Thanks for the beautiful & opportune book —just come to hand—I am about

Walt Whitman's "Specimen Days and Collect" is not, as its name might be supposed to imply, a book of

miscellaneous gathering of his prose writings, early attempts, bits of letters, extracts from note-books