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Search : As of 1860, there were no American cities with a population that exceeded
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Ah, not this granite dead and cold

  • Date: February 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Alex K. Reamer to Walt Whitman, 31 July 1885

  • Date: July 31, 1885
  • Creator(s): Alex K. Reamer
Text:

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

Allen Thorndike Rice to Walt Whitman, 16 November 1885

  • Date: November 16, 1885
  • Creator(s): Allen Thorndike Rice
Text:

THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETER. Editorial Department.

Annotations Text:

There is a drawn-in line beginning at the top of the page above the words "THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW"

[and a surplus of a hundred millions & more]

  • Date: 1891
Text:

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

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 20 July 1885

  • Date: July 20, 1885
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 27 February 1885

  • Date: February 27, 1885
  • Creator(s): Anne Gilchrist
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

Authors at Home - No. VII

  • Date: 1885
Text:

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

Charles Allen Thorndike Rice to Walt Whitman, 14 July 1885

  • Date: July 14, 1885
  • Creator(s): Charles Allen Thorndike Rice
Text:

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

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 19 February 1885

  • Date: February 19, 1885
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Annotations Text:

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

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 27 February 1885

  • Date: February 27, 1885
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Annotations Text:

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

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 30 July 1885

  • Date: July 30, 1885
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

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

Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 23 October 1885

  • Date: October 23, 1885
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

Sorry to hear you were troubled with sunstroke. I hope you are going on pretty well again now.

We were very pleased that the money came in handy—I haven't been in London lately or seen Mrs.

Annotations Text:

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

Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 9 July 1885

  • Date: July 9, 1885
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Annotations Text:

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

Edward S. Mawson to Walt Whitman, 17 August 1885

  • Date: August 17, 1885
  • Creator(s): Edward S. Mawson
Text:

characters was the perfection & not the genius of acting—I never witnessed Forrest acting but the houses were

in this century—the Italians such as Grisi or Titiens had more musical science, but as a whole they were

Begnis — a very good singer I believe for she was before my time—but a very bad immoral woman—they were

said for he spoke vile English that all his "Turkeys" was burnt up meaning that his turkish dresses were

Ronconi —De Begnis died of yellow fever in then you speak of Alboni —I heard her both in New York & this city

Annotations Text:

Edwin Thomas Booth (1833–1893) was an American actor, famous for performing Shakespeare in the U.S. and

The Kembles were a family of English actors, who were considered the prime of British theater at the

Edwin Forrest (1806–1872) was an American stage actor, well known for his Shakespearean roles.

James Watson Webb (1802–1884) was an American diplomat, general, and newspaperman.

Both Giuseppe de Begnis (1793–1849) and Luigi Lablache (1794–1858) were Italian opera singers.

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 7 July 1885

  • Date: July 7, 1885
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Annotations Text:

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

Fancies at Navesink

  • Date: August 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

George Parsons Lathrop to Walt Whitman, 31 March 1885

  • Date: March 31, 1885
  • Creator(s): George Parsons Lathrop
Annotations Text:

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

Hannah Whitman Heyde to Walt Whitman, [25 December 1885]

  • Date: [December 25, 1885]
  • Creator(s): Hannah Whitman Heyde
Annotations Text:

According to the Twenty-First Annual Report of the City of Burlington, Vermont (1885), "The heaviest

With the exception of two blocks the flagging is five feet wide" (Twenty-First Annual Report of the City

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 2 December 1885

  • Date: December 2, 1885
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

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

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 21 July 1885

  • Date: July 21, 1885
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

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

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 29 September 1885

  • Date: September 29, 1885
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

last letter to hand,—Disappointed not to hear a better account of your health yet, hoped that you were

Annotations Text:

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

Susan (1833–1910) and George Stafford (1827–1892) were the parents of Whitman's young friend, Harry Stafford

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 5 September 1885

  • Date: September 5, 1885
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

William Rossetti sent off to you £21.2.0 and £1. sent by Aldrich; this latter is in the form of an American

William Rossetti and your friends generally were very pleased and glad to get your letter (William Rossetti

Annotations Text:

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

James M. Scovel to Walt Whitman, 12 May 1885

  • Date: May 12, 1885
  • Creator(s): James M. Scovel
Annotations Text:

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

James Redpath to Walt Whitman, 11 August 1885

  • Date: August 11, 1885
  • Creator(s): James Redpath
Text:

see notes July 29 1888 | also Aug 1 NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. (EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.)

Annotations Text:

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

James Redpath to Walt Whitman, 16 July 1885

  • Date: July 16, 1885
  • Creator(s): James Redpath
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

James Redpath to Walt Whitman, 20 October 1885

  • Date: October 20, 1885
  • Creator(s): James Redpath
Text:

see notes Aug 26 & 31, '88 The North American Review. 30 Lafayette Place.

New York City, Oct. 20, 1885. Dear Mr.

Whitman: Enclosed please find a check for $50 for the article in the November number of the North American

Annotations Text:

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

James Redpath to Walt Whitman, 23 October 1885

  • Date: October 23, 1885
  • Creator(s): James Redpath
Text:

The North American Review. 30 Lafayette Place. ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE, Editor and Proprietor.

New York City, Oct. 23, 1885.

perfect ease the article on Lincoln and such other articles as you may have intended for the North American

Annotations Text:

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

James Redpath to Walt Whitman, 30 June 1885

  • Date: June 30, 1885
  • Creator(s): James Redpath
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

John Boyle O'Reilly to Walt Whitman, 5 March 1885

  • Date: March 5, 1885
  • Creator(s): John Boyle O'Reilly
Annotations Text:

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

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 18 May 1885

  • Date: May 18, 1885
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

Ursula and John were married on September 12, 1857.

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 31 December 1885

  • Date: December 31, 1885
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

I was right glad to get your letter & to know your eyes were so much better.

How much I wish you were here to eat a New Years dinner with us.

Annotations Text:

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

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

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

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 7 October 1885

  • Date: October 7, 1885
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

I shall talk to my Dr Doctor about you when I see him again, but if I were you I would adopt such a diet

John H. Johnston to Walt Whitman, 9 September 1885

  • Date: September 9, 1885
  • Creator(s): John H. Johnston
Annotations Text:

Stuart Robson (1836–1903) and William Henry Crane (1845–1928) were American stage actors and long-time

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, [30?] August 1885

  • Date: August 30, 1885
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

He kept his troubles almost entirely concealed from his parents—we thoughts things were going just a

Her four brothers of whom two were larger men, one as large, and one smaller, were a lot of jealous,

He was kind to them as if they were babies!

made the widow repudiate all of his debts—tho' universally known that his improvements on her land were

themselves in all this matter immeasurably sluggish and spiritless (as I wrote you some years ago that they were

Lionel Johnson to Walt Whitman, 20 October 1885

  • Date: October 20, 1885
  • Creator(s): Lionel Johnson
Text:

am not writing from an unworthy spirit of self-assertion: but that I should feel shame for myself, were

Marion Thrasher to Walt Whitman, 6 December 1885

  • Date: December 6, 1885
  • Creator(s): Marion Thrasher
Text:

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

Mary Whitall Smith to Walt Whitman, 25 July 1885

  • Date: July 25, 1885
  • Creator(s): Mary Whitall Smith | Thomas Donaldson
Text:

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 Livery

  • Date: 15 September 1885
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

P HILADELPHIA , September 15 —The last sunbeams were shining through the rustling leaves of the elm trees

side street in Camden this evening, and the last honey bee hovered over the fragrant blossoms that were

Several large sheets of paper were folded up within.

On them were scrawled the names of a number of prominent men in the various walks of life, but not a

"Some of them I do not know; some are very dear friends; a great many other friends were not sent to.

Proudly the flood comes in

  • Date: About 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Richard A. Stuart to Walt Whitman, 15 October 1885

  • Date: October 15, 1885
  • Creator(s): Richard A. Stuart
Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 5 April 1885

  • Date: April 5, 1885
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

Robert Lutz to Walt Whitman, 9 June 1885

  • Date: June 9, 1885
  • Creator(s): Robert Lutz
Annotations Text:

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

Robert P. Stewart to Walt Whitman, December 1885

  • Date: December 1885
  • Creator(s): Robert P. Stewart
Text:

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

Samuel B. Wright to Walt Whitman, 21 May 1885

  • Date: May 21, 1885
  • Creator(s): Samuel B. Wright
Text:

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

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 23 February 1885

  • Date: February 23, 1885
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 31 July 1885

  • Date: July 31, 1885
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

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

Thomas W. H. Rolleston to Walt Whitman, 4 August [1885]

  • Date: August 4, 1885
  • Creator(s): Thomas W. H. Rolleston
Annotations Text:

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.

Unidentified Correspondent to Walt Whitman, 5 September 1885

  • Date: September 5, 1885
  • Creator(s): Unidentified Correspondent
Annotations Text:

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

Unidentified Correspondent to Walt Whitman, 8 December 1885

  • Date: December 8, 1885
  • Creator(s): Unidentified Correspondent
Text:

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

Untitled

  • Date: 19 June 1885
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

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.

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