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We have had pleasant glimpses of several American friends this summer—of Kate Hillard for instance, who

It is not an English word, nor is it Americanized, according to the standard dictionaries; yet Mr.

Whitman has made it good American, so far as in his power lies, and stamped it with more than ordinary

about Carlyle and Emerson was too recently published (in these pages) to need present notice, and so were

'The Poetry of the Future' and 'A Memorandum at a Venture' (in The North American ).

poem and this volume of essays and notes form in themselves a literary inter-state exhibition or American

cultivated of Whitman's compatriots should be won over by his gorgeous anticipations of the "fruitage" of American

Wilson and McCormick is apparently printed from the same plates as the American edition, but upon better

at any rate, a very familiar idea to be found; but we have to confess that after careful reading we were

ye were, in your atmospheres, grown not for America, but rather for her foes, the feudal and the old—while

Unless, too, the reader possesses considerable familiarity with American slang, he will frequently be

Into this volume he has gathered fragments of writing, some of which were produced as long ago as 1860

, and all of which are illustrative of his thoughts and his experiences in the woods and the city, in

cover an invitation to attend our celebration of the 333 Anniversary of the occupation of the oldest city

sending a poem, Whitman sent a letter expounding on the influences of Spanish colonization on the American

My father's side—probably the fifth generation from the first English arrivals in New England—were at

The theatre, too, he delighted in, and saw all the great actors and singers, American or European, in

native Americans.

Second, there were in the Northern army men from every State in the Union, without exception.

Garfield said, "Do gentlemen know that (leaving out all the border States) there were fifty regiments

The popular American humorist Artemus Ward (1834-1867) (pseudonym of Charles Farrar Browne) influenced

visited Ausable Chasm, yesterday, weather not permitting sooner, and had a splendid perfect time, and were

Hildreth 334 W. 35th St New York City. Return to C.L.H. 334 W. 35th St. N.Y.C.

was a sculptor and illustrator from New York, who was best known for depicting the events of the American

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

You will see it makes some outrageously false statements about you at which your friends were naturally

LITHOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY American Bank Note Company, National Bank Note Company

I hope you are better than you were. I am very sorry that you should suffer.

Rugby, England, Jan. 9 th , 1883 Sir: I have received the copy of "Specimen Days & Collect" which you were

war" formerly published, and whether it is being published by Trübner & Co in the same form as the American

by the symbol (a butterfly on the extended finger of a hand) which appears on these imprints dated 1860

Memoranda During the War (1875) chronicles Whitman's time as a hospital volunteer during the American

Whitman's dealings with Trübner & Company were handled through Josiah Child.

was a free, sixty-four-page promotional pamphlet published by Thayer and Eldridge to advertise the 1860

all at once to send my pictures, I have not been very prompt have I Walt about the pictures these were

some good friends and I am shure sure with your letter, I can get something good in either of the cities

Right glad to hear of your good health—had an idea that you were not so well again this winter.

For Whitman's writings on Carlyle, see "Death of Thomas Carlyle" and "Carlyle from American Points of

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American poet and essayist who began the Transcendentalist movement

I return your Salt Lake City letter about Bacon and Shakespeare, having carefully read it thrice.

The North American man called it "so very valuable a manuscript," apologizing for declining it on the

wants it so, but mainly because you request it, I accede to the names of books being left as they were

seriously after my return, and developed into a bad attack of erysipelas, with which my head and face were

If I were well, I would certainly attempt it, but so far as I am concerned, the opportunity must be lost

I hear that the North American is getting up an article about you. Do you know anything about it?

"For only those who in sad cities dwell, Are of the green fields fully sensible."

The mass of men are no longer capable of being gulled & duped and victimized as they were once.

If the masses were essentially unsound the prophet & the wise man would have only a barren soil to work

I am at present very busy as I want to complete my critical history of American literature as soon as

AN AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Boston 1876. C. Schoenhof. Shakespeare in Amerika.

MODERN AMERICAN LYRICS. Leipzig 1880. F. U. Brodhaus.

Bucke informs us, were given away, most of them were lost, abandoned, or destroyed. ∗ According to Mr

'On the whole, it sounds to me,' were his words, 'very brave and American, after whatever deductions.

First we may notice that in spirit he is intensely American.

There is little in them that is distinctively American.

Were it not that we have Mr.

communist and utopian communities in the United States, including La Reunion in Texas and North American

83, they were staunch patriotsor " rebels," and several of the name were soldiersunder Washington, two

Those were his exact words.

If,for instance,by " some vast, instantaneous convulsion, American civilization " were lost,where isthe

They are certainly filledwith an American spiritbreathe the American air,and assert the fullest American

Of those that were plaeed in the stores none were sokl.

Mexico, a letter of congratulations on the "anniversary of the 333d year of the settlement of their city

the original location of the illustrations in Bucke's biography, since all of his recommendations were

You left out my remarks on "Children of Adam", I believe they were good but I acquiesce—your additions

putting my rough M.S. into shape and I am more than satisfied with all you have done—I see now that you were

I was asked whether those verses were written for the book, or about yourself, and I said "No—they were

published in the magazine some time ago and were suggested by another writer."

I am very sorry that paragraph appeared as it did, or at all, as it might look as if I were not a friend

Some thought it was simply because you were a great man, and they gave me addresses of several well known

men in Literature &c. however, I told them these other men were not Walt Whitman and that the only others

Dear Mr Whitman, I received the paper you were kind enough to send me containing a review of Dr Bucke's

Doehn, the author of a history of American Literature I told you of.

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

See also Harold Blodgett, "Whitman and Dowden," American Literature, 1 (1922), 171–182.

If any American bookseller wants any copies he can get them from Carl Tittmann.

If any American bookseller would like it, which is not, I suppose, very probable, he must write to the

have quite understood the whole of your message yet, & sometimes it has seemed to me as though you were

of money; she and the daughter and the latter's husband Richard Colyer settled down in the farm and were

must have been buried at Huntington village, for I remember seeing numerous old grave stones that were

—The stones I saw were brought away, lest they might be despoiled, and somehow, when the war passed over

, they were never returned.

—The largest trees near it, that I remember, appear to have been cut down.— The Whitmans were among the

We Americans have yet to really learn our own antecedents, and sort them, to unify them.

To that composite American identity of the future, Spanish character will supply some of the most needed

Then another point, relating to American ethnology, past and to come, I will here touch upon at a venture

As to our aboriginal or Indian population—the Aztec in the South, and many a tribe in the North and West—I

might assume to do so, I would like to send you the most cordial, heart-felt congratulations of your American

just finish'dfinished their long drawn out anniversary of the 333d year of the settlement of their city

This letter is addressed: Dr Karl Knortz | Cor: Morris Avenue | & 155th Street | New York City.

This sentence and the postscript were written in red ink and perhaps added to the letter by Whitman at

was a sculptor and illustrator from New York, who was best known for depicting the events of the American

This letter is addressed: O S Baldwin | N E cor: Broadway & Canal | New York City.

man—all dear friends of mine—I have been here quite a good deal the last year & a half, when they were

Wyld and Edwards were Mrs. Stafford's boarders (Whitman's Commonplace Book).

some good friends and I am shure sure with your letter, I can get something good in either of the cities

In 1883, Karl Knortz (1841–1918), the author of many articles on German-American affairs, was living

in New York City.

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

well)—those great long jovial walks we had at times for years, (1866– '72 1872 ) out of Washington City—often

Michael Nash were old, mutual friends of Whitman and Peter Doyle in Washington.

You left out my remarks on 'Children of Adam', I believe they were good but I acquiesce—your additions

It is singular & unnecessary— you were entirely welcome, & always have been — —I have been away most

seem to refer to the contiguous communities of Kirkwood and Glendale interchangeably, as if Kirkwood were

I sent you from here the proof of "Eminent Visitors" —See by the paper of 17th the errors I marked were

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

This letter is addressed: Dr Karl Knortz | Cor: Morris Avenue | & 155th Street | New York City.

City Hall all this month at a very secluded place—good quarters, very quiet—on a visit to an old Quaker