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I want all the chief American & especially the English poets to have copies.

his time, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was both a highly popular and highly respected American

When Whitman met Longfellow in June 1876, he was unimpressed: "His manners were stately, conventional—all

I set up every stick of it mesilf indade , & corrected my proofs ( wh. which I'll have you know) were

Later the decree was altered, and O'Reilly was sent to Australia, where he escaped on an American whaler

Now, you meet the rich idlers from Boston, New York, Chicago and other cities, during their gorgeous

You won't detect pedant or such about him, but a splendid example of a cultivated American, who knows

the best that other lands and times have to offer, but who is still American.

particularly difficult for those who belonged to the social circle in which he and Wendell Phillips were

course you are familiar with Lowell's "Commemoration Ode" —a poem, it seems to me—in which the best Americanism

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) was an American critic, poet and editor of The Atlantic.

If you were blessed with an unsurpassably good mother, I can with truth say the same of myself.

The draft comes from Charles Aldrich, of Webster City, Iowa, who had an interview with you some months

you go you must see W m William Bell Scott, the painter and poet, the first (unless, Dante Rossetti were

The furniture was of the plainest old-fashioned type; there were the old wooden rocking chairs, with

Piles of papers and magazines were stacked in chairs, on the floors, and several oil paintings were pendant

"My opinion of other American poets?

For a long period I placed Emerson at the head of American poetic literature, but of late I consider

Cleveland seems to me like a huge wall, great on his impedimenta, as it were.

have been olive-colored when put on in the silurian age, and the window sills, bordered with white, were

The furniture was of the plainest old-fashioned type; there were the old wooden rocking-chairs, with

Piles of papers and magazines were stacked in chairs, on the floors and stands.

"My opinion of other American poets?

Cleveland seems to me like a huge wall, great on his impediments, as it were.

poems that comprised the "Fancies at Navesink" cluster when it appeared in the Nineteenth Century were

) No lurid fame exceptional, nor monstrous intellect, nor conquest's domination;) Through teeming cities

holds at the high, with bosom broad outswelling; All throbs, dilates—the farms, woods, the streets of cities

On July 12, 1874, he wrote for the first time to Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground

Camden New Jersey U S A June 20 1885 Dear old friend If convenience helps I want to present two American

Johnston, is undated; the second, to Harold Johnston, is dated March 26, suggesting that the cards were

This letter is addressed: J H Johnston | Jeweler | 150 Bowery | New York City.

This letter is addressed: John H Johnston | Jeweler | 150 Bowery Cor: Broome | New York City.

This draft letter is on the back of an envelope from The North American Review postmarked NEW YORK |

On June 30 Redpath, at this time managing editor of The North American Review, asked Whitman to send

Redpath paid $50 for "Slang in America" on October 20, which appeared in The North American Review in

York—small quarto 9 by 12 inches, 95 pages—in the type called "English"—was not stereotyped—800 copies were

done—the author himself setting some of the type. 2 d ed'n, edition 16 mo was in 1856; 3 . 12 mo. 1860

This letter is addressed: J H Johnston | Jeweler | 150 Bowery | Cor: Broome | New York City.

He was the author of many books and articles on German-American affairs and was superintendent of German

See The American-German Review 13 (December 1946), 27–30.

These stockings were for Whitman's mentally and physically incapacitated brother Edward, who had lived

John Brown (Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860), a correspondent for the New York Tribune during the war

He met Whitman in Boston in 1860, and he remained an enthusiastic admirer; see Horace Traubel, With Walt

He concluded his first letter to Whitman on June 25, 1860: "I love you, Walt!

Redpath became managing editor of The North American Review in 1886. See also Charles F.

This letter is addressed: Lorenz Reich | 63 East 11th street | New York City.

These libations, ecstatic life-pourings as it were of precious wine or rose - water on vast desert sands

or great polluted river—taking chances for returns or no returns —what were they (or are they) but the

The Lay family were renting Whitman's Camden home when he bought it, and they stayed there for a month

was on the mend—I still hold my own & consider myself recuperating—I hope you will meet my young American

flimsy, cheap and temporary series of works that would have long since broken down, and disgraced the city

William Jarvis McAlpine (1812–1890), a civil engineer, planned the Riverside Drive in New York City.

W S K Your "the Poet as a Craftsman" seems the best statement possible of the modern scientific American

Ernest Rhys, 59 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, Eng Dr Karl Knortz, 540 East 155th St, New York City G.

Richard Watson Gilder, Century office, Union Square, New York City Wm D O'Connor, Life Saving Service

New York Edmund C Stedman, author, New York City Dr.

In American currency the gift amounted to $239.83 (Whitman's Commonplace Book).

Bessie (d. 1919) and Isabella (1855–1924) Ford were sisters who lived together in Leeds, were friends

This letter is addressed: Mrs: Alma Johnston | 305 East 17th Street | New York City.

Camden City Office Horse RR Walt Whitman to Camden Horse Railroad Company, [?] December 1885

For this reason they inserted a paragraph in The Athenaeum on July 11 soliciting funds, but were disturbed

little memoranda addressed to us she noted your name down as the one friend in America to whom we were

Whitman was in Atlantic City on November 28 and at Glendale on the following day (Whitman's Commonplace

Walt Whitman Were the artist to visit Philadelphia I would sit to him here in my own room—good place

This letter is addressed: Dr Karl Knortz | 540 East 155th Street | New York City.

write a little—sort o' sundown sonnets —have some nice visitors—Sometimes foreigners—two or three American

for a week—As I close, my bird is singing like a house afire, & the sun is shining out—I wish you were

Sloane Kennedy had to say about Whitman in his pamphlet, but thought that the statements about style were

The left side of the Grand Union Hotel letterhead reads: "[PASSENGERS] arriving in the city [of New York

live better for less money at the Grand Union than at any other strictly first class hotel in the city

WEBB, President of the Free College of the City of New York, and from MR. ANDREW CARNEGIE, REV. WM.

He was the author of many books and articles on German-American affairs and was superintendent of German

See The American-German Review 13 (December 1946), 27–30.

was greater on the street level than it has been since 1838—it was 102 in the shade at my office We were

water—so large a portion of the people let the water run to prevent freezing of the pipes—and our city—being

From January 8 to 13, 1884, the city suffered a five-day water shortage because of open faucets.

Standpipe No. 2, the "Red Tower" at Blair and Bissell streets, was authorized by the city council on

We sent him thy letter from Lord Mount Temple's, where we were staying.

We were walking in the old-fashioned flower garden when we met him, and almost the first thing he said

As we were going away, he told me to give thee his love.

It has a look of being lived in, and all the arrangements were "casual," as English people say.

Hats and walking-sticks were lying about in chairs and dogs raced in and out at their pleasure.

public library (I think at Minneapolis and Cincinnati) a volume of biography, it seems to me now there were

read criticisms reviews of your works & as I half expected none of them had the least idea who you were

Whitman in the New York Sonntagsblatt of November 1, 1868, mentioned Freiligrath's admiration for the American

do—I have had no more of the Round Table series since I sent the last to you —it is time some more were

Whitman's poems "The Pallid Wreath" (January 10, 1891) and "To The Year 1889" (January 5, 1889) were

Dear Sir— The writer desires to get up a course of lectures & readings to be given in this city this

Associations," and can arrange for you to give ten readings of your poems, in ten of our largest cities