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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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: Joseph B Gilder | Critic office 20 Astor | Place | New York City.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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."

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

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.

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