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1Undated, on the American Idiomloc.05186xxx.00469[(for name?]
ruminates about a title, presumably for the piece published as Slang in America, first in the North American
We have had pleasant glimpses of several American friends this summer—of Kate Hillard for instance, who
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
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.
leafhandwrittenprinted; A manuscript fragment composed on the verso of a page of a program or journal of the American
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
The lines were revised and published as Queries to My Seventieth Year in 1888. [Here fretful]
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.
published (the first Mannahatta, which begins with the words "I was asking...," first appeared in the 1860
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
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
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
Mexico, a letter of congratulations on the "anniversary of the 333d year of the settlement of their city
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
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
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
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
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.
Dear Mr Whitman, I received the paper you were kind enough to send me containing a review of Dr Bucke's
have quite understood the whole of your message yet, & sometimes it has seemed to me as though you were
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.
He spoke of the devotion of Americans to the worship of the dollar, which surprised me, as his usual
some good friends and I am shure sure with your letter, I can get something good in either of the cities
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
You left out my remarks on 'Children of Adam', I believe they were good but I acquiesce—your additions
City Hall all this month at a very secluded place—good quarters, very quiet—on a visit to an old Quaker
This letter is addressed: J B Gilder | Critic office | 30 Lafayette Square | New York City.
was a sculptor and illustrator from New York, who was best known for depicting the events of the American
This letter is addressed: Karl Knortz | Cor: Morris avenue | & 155th Street | New York City.
Knortz also informed the poet that in his "critical history of American literature . . . a whole chapter
This letter is addressed: Dr Karl Knortz | Cor: Morris Avenue | & 155th Street | New York City.
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
This letter is addressed: Dr Karl Knortz | Cor: Morris Avenue | & 155th Street | New York City.
This letter is addressed: O S Baldwin | N E cor: Broadway & Canal | New York City.
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.
This sentence and the postscript were written in red ink and perhaps added to the letter by Whitman at
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).