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He has not omitted, as some editors might have done, In a City Dead House and The Flight of the Eagles

America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies; I will make inseparable cities

time; privileged to evoke, in a country hitherto still asking for its poet, a fresh, athletic, and American

the English language is spoken—that is to say, in the four corners of the earth; and in his own American

A cable dispatch printed yesterday in an evening paper announced that Walt Whitman, the American poet

"If we were not in the midst of the holiday trade," he said, "I would jump on the next train for Philadelphia

An autograph letter of Walt's was sold in this city last Spring for $80 to my knowledge."

reporter regarding the paragraph which appeared in this morning's papers, stating that subscriptions were

Two handsome cats were purring contentedly about the ankles of the benign old man, and did not seem to

cablegram containing a reference to his needy condition and the circular alleged to be circulating England were

If my accumulation of shoes—my cast-off shoes—like wine and Old Daubs were increased in value by cobwebs

Henry George (1839–1897) was an American writer and political economist whose writings inspired a variety

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

For Whitman's writings on Carlyle, see "Death of Thomas Carlyle" (pp. 168–170) and "Carlyle from American

I leave the city to day for 2 or 3 months (Marlton N.J. Your friend Mr.

Hunter two or three times daily for months—when both in the city—and I spent last evening with him and

Other poems were also read and I think Mr.

Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden—though it does appear frequently in the last three volumes, which were

sunshine, & I rambled off once right round by Snowdon to Carnarvon, where the remnant of the Cymric races were

reading it & looking at relative passages in "Specimen Days" & "Leaves of Grass," the thought of the American

For my own sake, as well as yours, I wish it were!

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

On first acquaintance, or perhaps even on second and third acquaintance, the unprepossessing city of

Camden on the banks of the Delaware,—a city which serves as an over the river suburb of cheap homes for

"They cost me their weight when they were printed."

"They were just setting up in business and they were very anxious to get the work," he continued.

Many of them were returned to me with insulting letters."

In the recesses on either side of the chimney were portraits of the poet's father and mother.

some of them were on the floor.

Of books there were many, and, like the pictures, they were scattered everywhere around the room; on

They were young ladies just ready to bloom into early womanhood—pupils from Bryn Mawr College.

Pretty soon the writer made an incidental remark about the growth of the new Philadelphia City Hall,

with their lists of carpenters' tools and "barbaric yawps," their delight in the smoke and roar of cities

silence of mountains, and seas of prairies,—seemed to me to breathe something distinctive, national, American—with

One sentence, "In nothing is there more evolution than in the American mind ," I have also used in company

It helped to decide the title, which is: The Evolution of American Thought : an outline study of the

leading phases of American Literature etc.

Garland's "The Evolution of American Thought" was never published; the manuscript of the book does contain

entry for April 18, 1864, the Count referred to Whitman as among "the most original and genuine American

LeRoy Fischer, Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 36 (1949–1950): 415–434, and the Dictionary of American

Charles Eames was a prominent maritime attorney in Washington, D.C., in the 1860s, and his wife was a

Whitman published his American Institute Poem, After All, Not to Create Only, with Roberts Brothers,

Julian Hawthorne (1846–1934) was the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne and an American critic and journalist

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

Her works include The Mill on the Floss (1860), Middlemarch (1871–1872), and Daniel Deronda (1876).

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

He springs out of that vast American continent full-charged with all that is special and national in

Americans are apt to forget their great men, unless their work in this world, is kept before their minds

When I next visit the city, I shall certainly arrange to have a talk with you, on certain points upon

had already appeared in The Critic on December 16, 1882, and Whitman republished it in the North American

The essay appeared in The North American Review in November 1886.

, '88 ALL LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS RELATING TO EDITORIAL BUSINESS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED "EDITOR NORTH AMERICAN

REVIEW, NEW YORK CITY."

THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, 30 LAFAYETTE PLACE. ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 5th 1886. Walt Whitman, Esq., Camden, N.J.

Just wait a few days, however, and I will read it and see if it will not do for the North American.

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

rejected Whitman's "Some War Memoranda," Whitman submitted it to Redpath, and it appeared in the North American

"Robert Buns as Poet and Person" appeared in the North American Review in November 1886.

But the universal greed for gain; which Americans to-day seek, to the exclusion of everything Morally

Mississippi I was ten days in Chicago, the N.Y. of the west, & destined to be an enormous city.

Ursula and John were married on September 12, 1857.

He had met Whitman and Burroughs in the capital in the 1860s.

Burroughs means "Hathorn Spring water"; the Hathorn springs were some of the numerous mineral springs

"American Poets," in the October number of the British Quarterly Review.

Johnson to have several men tell me when I last went to town that they were more or less sure they had

There later were troubles with Duckett, but Whitman recalled in 1889 that "he was often with me: we went

to Gloucester together: one trip was to New York: . . . then to Sea Isle City once: I stayed there at

the hotel two or three days—so on: we were quite thick then: thick: when I had money it was as freely

There later were troubles with Duckett, but Whitman recalled in 1889 that "he was often with me: we went

to Gloucester together: one trip was to New York: . . . then to Sea Isle City once: I stayed there at

the hotel two or three days—so on: we were quite thick then: thick: when I had money it was as freely

If he were more energetic he could rise to be one of the Liberal Leaders, but he has been cursed with

Miss Moore was speaking to me of your poetry yesterday as she and I were walking through the galleries

Among those who contributed were Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson.

David McKay (1860–1918) took over Philadelphia-based publisher Rees Welsh's bookselling and publishing

For more information about McKay, see Joel Myerson, "McKay, David (1860–1918)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia

on the works of Keats and Shelley, and, starting in 1887, a conspirator in literary forgeries that were

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

SUBDIVIDER AND OWNER OF CITY & SUBURBAN PROPERTY. S. E. COR. DEARBORN & RANDOLPH STS.

Your patriotic & noble lines are most worthy the attention of the American people.

I am collecting Photos of distinguished Americans & would be glad to get one of yours, if it can be got

SALEM, a manufacturing city of 6000 population, is an Excellent Show Town, surrounded by a good country

It is in the Old Colony, the part of the country where your first American ancestors lived.

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

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

Arlo Bates (1850–1918) was an American author of several novels, poetry collections, and essays on literary

Judge was placed in charge of the Society's North American activities when co-founders Helena Petrovna

Your postal cards were better than all the letters in the world.

David McKay (1860–1918) took over Philadelphia-based publisher Rees Welsh's bookselling and publishing

For more information about McKay, see Joel Myerson, "McKay, David (1860–1918)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia

within the last half dozen days we have seen (and felt badly about) squibs in the papers saying you were

said you did not feel quite as well as usual—but that you had been out on a long drive and that you were

The profits on 'Leaves of Grass' were only $20 for the same time.

When I read my poem on Lincoln in Philadelphia the other day, the profits were $700.

Poetry is a font of type, to be set up again consistently with American democratic institutions."

"How were these changes made?" "Structures grew and were made by use and lost by disuse.

Such study shows clearly how structures developed or were lost.

At a sale of Autographs, & Books a few days ago the following prices were obtained, "Autograph letter

, Whitman, Walt, Poet," $80.00 Leaves of Grass 1 st Edition 18.00 Which prices were the highest paid

On the attempted Suppression of "an American, one of the Roughs, a Kosmos," and "Yawped over the roofs

An attempt to suppress an attorney were better, Who thinks the free flight of the soul to fetter.

For my own sake, as well as yours, I wish it were!"

Whitman stayed at the "Minerva House" in Sea Isle City, N.

On October 21 Mary Costelloe had informed the poet that she and her husband were about to go as delegates

Logan and Alys were Mary's siblings.

Their parents, Robert Pearsall Smith and Hannah Whitall Smith, were strong supporters of Whitman.

This letter is addressed: Editors | Critic | weekly paper | 20 Astor Place | New York City.

This postal card is addressed: Albert Johnston | Jeweler | 150 Bowery cor: Broome | New York City.

His shad and champagne dinners for Whitman were something of a tradition.

Perhaps two of these were the (unnamed) books O'Connor sent to Whitman on December 21.

With additions he republished it as "Robert Burns as Poet and Person" in The North American Review, 143

This letter is addressed: Editor | Century Magazine | Union Square | New York City.