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wooding at night

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

—Our two were on the way to Philadelphia?

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

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 16 June 1887

  • Date: June 16, 1887
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

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

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

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

Walt Whitman with Nigel and Catherine Cholmeley-Jones by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Walt Whitman with Nigel and Catherine Cholmeley-Jones by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Walt Whitman with Nigel and Catherine Cholmeley-Jones by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Walt Whitman with Nigel and Catherine Cholmeley-Jones by George C. Cox, April 15, 1887

  • Date: April 15, 1887
  • Creator(s): Cox, George C. (George Collins)
Text:

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Walt Whitman: Visit to the Good Gray Poet at His Place of Abode

  • Date: 23 April 1887
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

On the floor were strewn, with the genuine abandon of carelessness books, magazines, newspaper clippings

Thrown here and there loosely were the skins of animals; one on the chair which is claimed as the "poet's

The coal-black eyes of the housekeeper were cast upon him. He seemed to wilt.

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

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, John Burroughs, and Richard Maurice Bucke, 6 May 1887

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

They were mostly testimonials from friends, and benefits given in the theatres of New York City"; Pond

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy and Richard Maurice Bucke, 28 July 1887

  • Date: July 28, 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 and Richard Maurice Bucke, 11 July 1887

  • Date: July 11, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Both were introduced to Whitman's writings by Edward Carpenter and they quickly became admirers of Whitman

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 9 June [1887]

  • Date: June 9, 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, 9 July [1887]

  • Date: July 9, 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

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

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 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 William Sloane Kennedy, 29 April [1887]

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

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

Now," an account of Whitman's lecture entitled "The Death of Abraham Lincoln," delivered in New York City

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 28 May 1887

  • Date: May 28, 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, 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

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 25 February 1887

  • Date: February 25, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

If I were to unbosom to you in the matter I should say that I never cared so very much for E.'

Annotations Text:

avers that "Emerson inspired the first poems of Whitman," and that Whitman had confided to him in 1860

: "My ideas . . . were simmering and simmering, and Emerson brought them to a boil" (79–83).

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American poet and essayist who began the Transcendentalist movement

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 23 May [1887]

  • Date: May 23, 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, 22 February 1887

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

Though Trowbridge became familiar with Whitman's poetry in 1855, he did not meet Whitman until 1860,

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 21 February 1887

  • Date: February 21, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Though Trowbridge became familiar with Whitman's poetry in 1855, he did not meet Whitman until 1860,

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

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 20 June 1887

  • Date: June 20, 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, 19 April 1887

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

is referring to his lecture entitled "The Death of Abraham Lincoln," which he delivered in New York City

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

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 16 May [1887]

  • Date: May 16, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Walt Whitman>
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 15 April 1887

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

is referring to his lecture entitled "The Death of Abraham Lincoln," which he delivered in New York City

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 13 June 1887

  • Date: June 13, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Walsh (1854–1919) was an American historian, poet, critic, and editor.

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

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 13 July 1887

  • Date: July 13, 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, [13 April 1887]

  • Date: April 13, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

is referring to his lecture entitled "The Death of Abraham Lincoln," which he delivered in New York City

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 11 April 1887

  • Date: April 11, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

midnight, including the brewing of a wassail bowl (non-alcoholic) with comic result by Steinbock & an American

Before we came away, she read out your preface to the assembled little company of guests—mainly Americans

Annotations Text:

is referring to his lecture entitled "The Death of Abraham Lincoln," which he delivered in New York City

Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock (1860–1895) was a Swedish-English author of decadent and macabre fiction

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 William Sloane Kennedy, 10 March 1887

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

Buchanan's A Look Round Literature (1887) contains a chapter on Walt Whitman entitled "The American Socrates

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 1 July [1887]

  • Date: July 1, 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 F. Channing, 4 July 1887

  • Date: July 4, 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 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 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.

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 White, Stokes & Allen, 29 April 1887

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

This letter is addressed: White, Stokes & Allen | Publishers | New York City.

Francis Fisher Browne (1843–1913) was an American poet, critic, and editor of The Dial.

Walt Whitman to Unidentified Correspondent, [6 May 1887]

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

excuse the liberty I take in introducing the young man who will hand you this—a conductor on the W P City

Walt Whitman to Thomas Jefferson Whitman, 13 June 1887

  • Date: June 13, 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 Thomas Jefferson Whitman, 13 April 1887

  • Date: April 13, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

is referring to his lecture entitled "The Death of Abraham Lincoln," which he delivered in New York City

1884, when George and Louisa moved to a farm outside of Camden and Whitman decided to stay in the city

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 The Proprietor, Westminster Hotel, 16 April 1887

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

This letter is addressed: Proprietor | Westminster Hotel | Irving Place | New York City.

" 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 [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.

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