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You were partially right in thinking me connected with a large printing establishment.

" presumably Lincoln's first campaign song, and served as correspondent of the New York World from 1860

He published many volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were

(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885) and A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to

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

Perhaps Lilian Whiting (1859–1942), an American writer and journalist.

I am going to address the American People (not the damned & twice damned literary & clerical rascals)

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.

Fanny Raymond Ritter (c.1835–1891) was an American musician, writer, historian, and the wife of the German-American

The Ritters were friends of William Sloane Kennedy and William D.

During the late 1850s and throughout the 1860s, Abby and Helen were friends with Whitman and his mother

Moncure Conway (1832–1907) was a Unitarian minister who lived in England from the 1860s until 1885, where

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

" presumably Lincoln's first campaign song, and served as correspondent of the New York World from 1860

He published many volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were

(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885) and A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to

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.

Chas Charles Aldrich, of Webster City, Iowa: he told us of his interview with you shortly before he crossed

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

recently in which she says: "By the way, there is in the latest edition of Leaves of Grass a poem—'The City

was one half of the Boston-based abolitionist publishing firm Thayer and Eldridge, who issued the 1860

was one half of the Boston-based abolitionist publishing firm Thayer and Eldridge, who put out the 1860

C.W.E. and I were intensely amused at your "amiable clerk with a pen behind his ear," as applied to Stedman's

This gives points to Herod, and is worse than the slaughter of the innocents, because they were Jew babies

Eldridge (1837–1903) was, with William Wilde Thayer, the Boston publisher of Whitman's 1860 edition of

Gay Wilson Allen, Ed Folsom (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1990), 268–281.

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

Perhaps a reference to Henry Jacob Bigelow (1818–1890), an American surgeon, professor at Harvard and

It is remarkable and good, though I don't always see as he does, and wish he were more comprehensive.

What is most significant, however, is the article called "American Poets" in the October number of the

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.

Eldridge, a Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860

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

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

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.

Among the donors were Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Addington Symonds, George Saintsbury,

He is used to the city, & to life & people—is in his 18th year—has the first Knack of Literature—& is

The plates of the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, printed by Thayer & Eldridge, were sold to Richard

originally wrote Whitman on September 29, 1879, informing him that he possessed the plates to the 1860

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

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 1st Edition 10.00 Which prices were the

The British Quarterly Review for October contained an article on "American Poets" in which Whitman, according

giving out—I enclose one of Herbert's last letters —(I had written to him over a month ago, when you were

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

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

This letter is addressed: Joseph B Gilder | Critic office 20 Astor | Place | New York City.

Two "pot-boilers" were rejected: Baldwin's Monthly declined "Lafayette in Brooklyn," which Whitman sent

Whitman that Rice's syndicate "is dissolved," but that possibly he might put the piece into The North American

Walt Whitman Camden, New Jersey Walt Whitman to the Editor of The North American Review, ?

Jotted Down at the Time" appeared in the January 1887 issue of The North American Review, this note was

Whitman sent the article to Redpath, of The North American Review, on June 29 (Whitman's Commonplace

B —but I am glad you refused the letters for publication—They were strictly private Walt Whitman Don't

Walt Whitman Some of her most beautiful, characteristic, interesting and copious letters were written

to her friend Walt Whitman the American poet.

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

July 19 requesting permission to include "Song of the Redwood-Tree" in Half-Hours with the Best American

England J Addington Symonds, Davos Platz, Graubünden Switzerland E C Stedman 45 E 30th St New York City

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

This letter is addressed: Editor | Century Magazine | Union Square | New York City | attention of | C

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

my old nag & rig in the afternoon —So you see I have not utterly stopt stopped moving —but I feel exceeding

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

He published many volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were

(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885) and A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to

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

mentioned the possibility of a pension to Whitman as early as January 7, 1885: "If this humbug government were

Jersey Aug. 24 p m Charles Eldridge was here yesterday noon—a pleasant 3 hour visit—went to Atlantic City

was one half of the Boston-based abolitionist publishing firm Thayer and Eldridge, who issued the 1860

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

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

They were friends and disciples (as well as cousins) of Carpenter, and active social reformers, working

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.

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

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.

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