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Anna Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings

  • Date: 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Harlakendend Gilchrist | Anna Gilchrist | William Michael Rossetti
Text:

And, to say the truth, we were rather tiredof itbefore itwas over, and were glad enough to change from

Itwas only the other day that we were saying, when he and I were met with other friends, that italmost

The couple were people I knew well, who did second famously, but were conditionally pre-engaged when

'Depend upon itthe Greek sculptors were right. * Since you were last here, Herbert, I have read Bulwer's

You were not made for failure, you were made for victory forward with joyful : go a confidence in that

wooding at night

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Our two were on the way to Philadelphia?

1848 New Orleans

  • Date: Between 1848 and 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

After changing my boarding house, Jef. and I were, take it altogether, pretty comfortable.

The arrangements of the office were in this wise: I generally went about my work about 9 o'clock, overhauling

Reeder, (an amiable-hearted young man, but excessively intemperate) was the "city news" man; (poor Reeder

to speculate on the circumstances or date of its composition, but it seems likely that parts of it were

Emory Holloway (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:77–78. 1848 New Orleans

Annotations Text:

to speculate on the circumstances or date of its composition, but it seems likely that parts of it were

Emory Holloway (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:77–78.

Anna M. Kerr to Walt Whitman, 30 December 1887

  • Date: December 30, 1887
  • Creator(s): Anna M. Kerr
Text:

I loved to work what good I could for the Sunday School of Old St Ann's for its missions and our City's

poor—you were always ready to aid in such good work— I was young then, and light hearted—I am a Widow

Annotations Text:

According to the Brooklyn City Directory (1863), Gabriel Harrison was a photographer at 73 Fulton Avenue

Walt Whitman to Susan Stafford, [(30?) (December?) 1887]

  • Date: December 30, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Edward T. Potter, 28 December 1887

  • Date: December 28, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

This letter is addressed: Edward T Potter | 26 S 38th Street | New York City.

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 27 December 1887

  • Date: December 27, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Sidney H. Morse to Walt Whitman, 26 December 1887

  • Date: December 26, 1887
  • Creator(s): Sidney H. Morse
Text:

The boxes were shipped Monday, & I suppose you may have heard from Dr Bucke. Tell Mrs.

Walt Whitman to [the Editor of the New York Herald], 16 December 1887

  • Date: December 16, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Julius Chambers (1850–1920) was an American author, investigative journalist, and travel writer; after

For more on the Herald and the many poems by Whitman that were published in it, see Susan Belasco, "The

Julius Chambers (1850–1920) was an American author, investigative journalist, and travel writer.

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 11 December 1887

  • Date: December 11, 1887
  • Creator(s): Thomas Jefferson Whitman
Text:

Just now it is all emptied into the river that flows through the city and the deposit has become so great

Annotations Text:

authority may have been weakened by the resolution adopted on February 18, 1887, by the lower house of the city

requested to serve his purpose by means other than those calculated to inconvenience the taxpayers of the city

" (Journal of the City Council, February 23, 1887).

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 7 December [1887]

  • Date: December 7, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 5 December 1887

  • Date: December 5, 1887
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 5 December 1887

  • Date: December 5, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Thomas Eakins (1844–1919) was an American painter.

A Chat with the Good Gray Poet

  • Date: December 1887
  • Creator(s): Cyrus Field Willard
Text:

Whitman, to a party of ladies who were very much charmed with it." "Ah! what one was that?"

City is a Woman who detained me There for the Love of Me.

"Yes," said I, "they were highly pleased with it."

at the idea of having so many disciples in the City of Isms.

And is there anything in the American language that comes close to this?

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 29 November [1887]

  • Date: November 29, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Thomas B. Harned, 22 November 1887

  • Date: November 22, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Robert Underwood Johnson, 19 November 1887

  • Date: November 19, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

This letter is addressed: R U Johnson | Century Office | Union Square | New York City.

Thomas Eakins (1844–1919) was an American painter.

Undoubtedly Dora Wheeler (1856–1940), who in the 1880s painted portraits of numerous American authors

Walt Whitman to Leonard M. Brown, 19 November 1887

  • Date: November 19, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Thomas Eakins (1844–1919) was an American painter.

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 17 November 1887

  • Date: November 17, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 16 November 1887

  • Date: November 16, 1887
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

this morning at the a.m. o.c. and I am scribbling this instead of painting—oh, how often I think of American

Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Sylvester Baxter, 16 November 1887

  • Date: November 16, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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

Alfred, Lord Tennyson to Walt Whitman, 15 November 1887

  • Date: November 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Walt Whitman
Text:

The coming year should give new life to every American who has breathed a breath of that soul which inspired

the great founders of the American Constitution, whose work you are to celebrate.

Letter from Walt Whitman to John H. Johnston, 10 November 1887

  • Date: November 10, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

This postal card is addressed: J H Johnston | Diamond Merchant | 150 Bowery cor: Broome St:| New York City

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

Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907) was an American abolitionist, minister, and frequent correspondent

Ada H. Spaulding to Walt Whitman, 3 November 1887

  • Date: November 3, 1887
  • Creator(s): Ada H. Spaulding
Text:

All at once it occurs to me: "Why—these were written years ago. He is older now.

Annotations Text:

Originally entitled "Enfans d'Adam" in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, this cluster of poems celebrating

The poems, openly "singing the phallus" and the "mystic deliria," were too bold for their time and often

relationship with esteemed writer Ralph Waldo Emerson cooled after he refused Emerson's advice in 1860

Miller, Jr., " 'Children of Adam' [1860]," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R.

Walt Whitman to William Carey, 2 November 1887

  • Date: November 2, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

This letter is addressed: Wm Carey | Century Office | Union Square | New York City.

November Boughs

  • Date: November 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

The four poems that comprised "November Boughs" in Lippincott's Magazine were reprinted in the "Sands

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 30 October 1887

  • Date: October 30, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 28 October 1887

  • Date: October 28, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 26 October 1887

  • Date: October 26, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Whitman's name and city are printed on the envelope as follows: Walt Whitman, | Camden, | New Jersey.

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

Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 22 Oct 1887

  • Date: October 22, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I am ab't the same as when you were here—& am sitting by the window in the big chair. Mrs.

D's cookery—we wish you were here to have some—the very color goes beyond all description.

Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 20 October 1887

  • Date: October 20, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

" 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

Sylvester Baxter to Walt Whitman, 8 October 1887

  • Date: October 8, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Sylvester Baxter
Annotations Text:

; he also published biographies of Longfellow, Holmes, and Whittier (Dictionary of American Biography

Charles Sprague Sargent (1841–1927) was an American botanist.

Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851–1934) was an influential American architectural critic.

Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908) was an American professor of art and a literary critic.

Lawrence Barrett (1838–1891) was an American actor, noted for his Shakespearean roles.

Walt Whitman to Sylvester Baxter, 7 October 1887

  • Date: October 7, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Boston friends were raising money to buy a summer cottage they hoped would improve Whitman's failing

Walt Whitman to John H. Johnston, 29 September 1887

  • Date: September 29, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—When you come again, don't forget to bring my Stedman book American Poets —Love to Alma and Al and all

Annotations Text:

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

" 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

Walt Whitman to George C. Cox, 15 September 1887

  • Date: September 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

This letter is addressed: G C Cox | Photographer | Broadway & 12th Street | New York City.

Walt Whitman to William Carey, 15 September 1887

  • Date: September 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

This postal card is addressed: William Carey | Century Office Union Square | New York City.

Walt Whitman to Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe, 14 September 1887

  • Date: September 14, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Robert Pearsall Smith, 12 September [1887]

  • Date: September 12, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Robert Pearsall Smith, 12 September [1887]

  • Date: September 12, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 7 September [1887]

  • Date: September 7, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

"Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: September 1887
  • Creator(s): Lewin, Walter
Text:

If his worldly gains were small, there was compensation in the modesty of his wants.

Nay, have we not felt we were in some sort worse than those others, because, being guilty, we were praised

A thousand copies were printed.

Few if any copies of the book were sold.

Among Whitman's personal friends were Bryant and Longfellow.

Annotations Text:

.; American writer (1825–1878) who wrote for newspapers, travel books, novels, poetry, and critical essays

the finest strain that a human ear can hear, yet conclusively and past all refutation, that there were

Walt Whitman to John H. Johnston, 1 September 1887

  • Date: September 1, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

This letter is addressed: J H Johnston | Jeweler | 150 Bowery cor: Broome | New York City.

Walt Whitman to Ernest Rhys, 20 August 1887

  • Date: August 20, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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

Walt Whitman to Hannah Whitman Heyde, 17 August 1887

  • Date: August 17, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to William T. Stead, 17 August 1887

  • Date: August 17, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

from "a distinguished American man of letters" abt me was a very large inflation into fiction of a very

Annotations Text:

Stead had printed passages from a "private letter" on May 6, which detailed the American supporters of

subscriptions abroad, with the idea that he won't be taken care of at home, is ridiculous"; see American

Whitman Will Not Answer

  • Date: 11 August 1887
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

The editors of the North American Review had sent him three dispatches, urgently requesting an article

John S. Shults to Walt Whitman, 9 August 1887

  • Date: August 9, 1887
  • Creator(s): John S. Shults
Text:

OFFICE OF THE CITY SURVEYOR, CITY HALL. Camden, N.J., August 9th 188 7 Walt Whitman Esq.

Annotations Text:

I wrote to the City Surveyor about it . . . and he said he would have it set right—but has not done so

Walt Whitman to S. S. McClure, 6 August 1887

  • Date: August 6, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

This letter is addressed: S S McClure | Tribune Building | New York City.

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 4 August 1887

  • Date: August 4, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Boston friends were raising money to buy a summer cottage they hoped would improve Whitman's failing

Walt Whitman to Sylvester Baxter, 3 August 1887

  • Date: August 3, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Boston friends were raising money to buy a summer cottage they hoped would improve Whitman's failing

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