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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

" 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 put out 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,