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The contents of this manuscript were used in Complete Prose (1892), under the title Written Impromptu

June 26 188 3 Dear Sir, I am collecting material for an article upon the late Sidney Lanier, a true American

—I am obliged to you for the notice in the North American (G.E.M.).

William Sloane Kennedy (1850–1929) was on the staff of the Philadelphia American and the Boston Transcript

; he also published biographies of Longfellow, Holmes, and Whittier (Dictionary of American Biography

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

His reservations were completely oversloughed by his eulogy.

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."

What other American poet has earned, or will ever earn, the proud distinction of having an article upon

typical Protestant, according to Lord Chief Justice Campbell, a Protestant and a Scotchman, there were

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

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

If we were to begin the setting of the copy de novo you should certainly be obeyed in every detail &

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

received —The printers are very slow—but will be coming along in a day [or] two—have a sudden rush—the American

New York City, has translated many of my poems in German, & published them.

Leaves of Grass to any purchaser, and informed Stevens, Marston, Tobey, and Comstock, all of whom were

one—he showed it at first, & stronger still at last —that Saturday evn'g & Sunday afternoon he & I were

The American (same mail with this,) after reading please forward to Dr Bucke.

O'Connor mentioned corrections in Bucke's book and referred to the "office editor" of The North American

spirit, but because the facts I give are of current interest, and should be kept well before the American

stated that although he wanted to delete the passages mentioned, he was in a "dilemma," since they were

On August 12, 1882, Swinton informed the poet that his lecture on American literature had been translated

O'Connor were sisters.

Whitman, however, fibbed, for on May 28 Bucke wrote: "I see now that you were right about the Latin motto

which I meant to have sent you at the time, but missed somehow—I am well as usual— W W (Salt Lake City

On September 22 O'Connor wrote: "I return your Salt Lake City letter about Bacon and Shakespeare, having

Horace Traubel reported that Whitman's "eyes were full of tears" (With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York

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

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).

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

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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He spoke of the devotion of Americans to the worship of the dollar, which surprised me, as his usual

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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