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surplus of a hundred millions & more]1891prose1 leafhandwritten; This manuscript is a partial draft of American

, which first appeared in the March 1891 issue of North American Review under the title, Have We a National

This manuscript contributed to American's Bulk Average, which first appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891

The article, published under the name "George Selwyn," was part of a series called "American Authors

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

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

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.

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

1884, when George and Louisa moved to a farm outside of Camden and Whitman decided to stay in the city

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

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

According to John Brooks Wheeler, Memoirs of a Small-Town Surgeon (Garden City, New York: Garden City

Publishing Company, 1936), 284–289, Thayer performed most of the operations in Burlington during the 1860s

Perhaps you will have seen in the American papers that Sidney Thomas, the cousin with whom Percy was

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

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

Philip Henry Bagenal (1850–1927) was an Anglo-Irish author, known mostly for his The American Irish and

Krieg, chapter 8, "Dublin," Walt Whitman and the Irish (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000), 190

Kelly (1856–1916) was a New England doctor of children's diseases as well as an Irish-American activist

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

said the "Good Grey Poet" to a North American reporter.

"If it were not for the new President I don't know what the papers would do for something to talk about

Walt was a newspaper man when most of the newspaper men of the present day were boys, and he preserves

William Dean Howells (1837–1920) was an American realist novelist and literary critic, serving the staff

of the New York Nation and Harper's Magazine during the mid 1860s.

1871 to 1880, he was one of the foremost critics in New York, and used his influence to support American

In an Ashtabula Sentinel review of the 1860 edition Leaves of Grass, Howells wrote, "If he is indeed

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), better know by his pen name, Mark Twain, was an American humorist

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

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

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

Emory Holloway (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1921), 1:234–235.

If you do not like to make the whole distance alone, I will meet you in Jersey City.

Ursula and John were married on September 12, 1857.

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

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

poets, however conservative they may be, tend to the same democratic humanitarianism as our great Americans

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

The handsome third (1860-61) Boston edition, published by Thayer & Eldridge, commenced well and paid

Whitman's darkest times were from 1873 to 1876.

Whitman had made a good fight, but the fates were adverse.

Lists of purchasers of the $10 edition were sent over to Whitman, accompanied by the money.

Among the names were those of G. H. Lewes, Vernon and Godfrey Lushington, Dante G. and William M.

The car jogs up Market street, the principal thoroughfare of the city.

The bright energy which marks the growing Western city is absent.

Camden is monotonous and for a city of its age and opportunities unlovely.

The walls were adorned with a number of portraits, engravings, and photographs.

HIS VIEWS OF AMERICAN BARDS. "The old poets are dropping off," said Mr.

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

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

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.

because my visit will be on business I believe you have never met Mr Rice, proprietor of the North American

He has set about to secure the Reminiscences of all the eminent Americans who came into personal relations

Some of these papers he may publish in the North American Review, & others in the North American Review

Charles Allen Thorndike Rice (1851–1889) was a journalist and edited and published the North American

Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time (1888) was published by The North American

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.

On May 22 Rhys informed the poet that about 8,000 copies of the edition were sold, and that the publisher

Both were introduced to Whitman's writings by Edward Carpenter and they quickly became admirers of Whitman

THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, New York. Editorial Department.

A number of important American newspapers, among which may be mentioned such as the New York Tribune

NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. (EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.) (DICTATED TO STENOGRAPHER.)

Charles Allen Thorndike Rice (1851–1889) purchased The North American Review in 1876.

almost or quite strangers to us, asking questions on this subject; and we hoped & thought that if this were

Hence the paragraph was put into the Athenaeum which I send with this, and we were proceeding to organize

subscription list is being formed in England with a view to presenting a free-will offering to the American

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

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

I am rather hankering after a studio right down in the city amongst men: From a business point of view

subscription list is being formed in England with a view to presenting a free-will offering to the American

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.

The poet's sleeves were rolled above the elbows, exposing a pair of arms white as a woman's, but symmetrical

GRANT, A TYPICAL AMERICAN.

"Washington and all those noble early Virginians were, strictly speaking, English gentlemen of the royal

era of Hampden, Pym and Milton, and such it was best that they were for their day and purposes.

, irrefragable proof of radical Democratic institutions—that it is possible for any good average American

A big tornado passed, or crashed over the city, tearing a large luxuriant tree that grew by the gate,

How it razed and thrashed the slate roof; several houses were unroofed: the worst gale I ever saw: Han

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

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

shrubbery all tell to me the same tale A tale of peacefulness and isolation from the busy, busy, striving Cities

high and vapory blue a lone Mountain to whose heights I aspire to climb and on its top to place an American

I see many friends and many who were friends of my Father and Mother.

here and to many I am a "regular suprise party" Hearing them talk of long ago makes me feel as if I were

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

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