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1645–6

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were

After the dazzle of Day

  • Date: 1887 or 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 1:121; Major American Authors on CD-Rom: Walt Whitman (Westport

Annotations Text:

Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 1:121; Major American Authors on CD-Rom: Walt Whitman (Westport

After the Supper and Talk

  • Date: Between 1884 and 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 1:121; Major American Authors on CD-Rom: Walt Whitman (Westport

Annotations Text:

Joel Myerson (New York: Garland, 1993), 1:121; Major American Authors on CD-Rom: Walt Whitman (Westport

Alys Smith to Walt Whitman, [10] June 1888

  • Date: June [10], 1888
  • Creator(s): Alys Smith
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We saw a good deal of the author, Olive Schreiner, when we were in the Riviera, & she is such an interesting

I wish that she were going to America instead of back to Africa, so that you could see her.— Mary sends

Annex at 69

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

The eight poems from this sequence were then reprinted in a section of November Boughs entitled Sands

Annie Nathan Meyer to Walt Whitman, 12 January 1891

  • Date: January 12, 1891
  • Creator(s): Annie Nathan Meyer
Text:

Valentine's Night," will be given in this city on February 14. 1891, for the benefit of the Aguilar Free

the hope that the Library's good work in disseminating the best literature among the poor of this city

Annotations Text:

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), better know by his pen name, Mark Twain, was an American humorist

Brander Matthews (1852–1929) was a prolific American writer and critic who wrote novels, plays, short

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

Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) was an American author, best known for his utopian science fiction novel,

The Bravest Soldiers

  • Date: 18 March 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

"Sands at Seventy" printing of "The Bravest Soldiers" omits several words from the first line that were

C. H. Browning to Walt Whitman, 15 August 1888

  • Date: August 15, 1888
  • Creator(s): C. H. Browning
Annotations Text:

Amélie Rives (1863–1945) was an American novelist, poet, and playwright, whose 1888 novel The Quick or

C. Sadakichi Hartmann to Walt Whitman, 24 July 1888

  • Date: July 24, 1888
  • Creator(s): C. Sadakichi Hartmann
Annotations Text:

There is an additional Camden, N.J. postmark, but only the name of the city is legible.

Charles F. Sloane to Walt Whitman, 23 June 1888

  • Date: June 23, 1888
  • Creator(s): Charles F. Sloane
Text:

—I think they were called "Twilight": at all events they were of the Twilght, and several to trace a

likeness between the fading day and your own declining years—They were very sweet, very tender, and the

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 19 October 1888

  • Date: October 19, 1888
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

Van Ness & American HOTELS BURLINGTON, VERMONT.

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 28 August 1888

  • Date: August 28, 1888
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

Van Ness & American HOTELS BURLINGTON, VERMONT.

Charles T. Sempers to Walt Whitman, 4 March 1888

  • Date: March 4, 1888
  • Creator(s): Charles T. Sempers
Annotations Text:

William James (1842–1910), brother of the writer Henry James, was an American psychologist, anatomist

Charles W. Eldridge to Walt Whitman, 26 July 1888

  • Date: July 26, 1888
  • Creator(s): Charles W. Eldridge
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This is bound to be a large city, and the metropolis of Southern California as San Francisco of the Northern

Charles Wells Moulton to Walt Whitman, 28 November 1888

  • Date: November 28, 1888
  • Creator(s): Charles Wells Moulton
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

Charles William Dalmon to Walt Whitman, 27 September 1888

  • Date: September 27, 1888
  • Creator(s): Charles William Dalmon
Text:

City of Berlin "Inman Line" Jersey City 27-9-88 Dear Sir Today I was coming to Camden full of hope that

I am only a steward on the City of Berlin— you will see me?

The City of Berlin sails early on Saturday the 29th—may I hope for a few words from you before she sails—I

Charlotte Fiske Bates to Walt Whitman, 19 July 1888

  • Date: July 19, 1888
  • Creator(s): Charlotte Fiske Bates
Text:

I had feared that you were too ill to look at flowers or to identify, even in thoughts, those who think

Annotations Text:

John Whitman's fourth-great grandchild is American President Abraham Lincoln.

consent of all the other sects

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were

The division took place

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were

Edward Dowden to Walt Whitman, 31 August 1888

  • Date: August 31, 1888
  • Creator(s): Edward Dowden
Text:

Whitman, Allow me to introduce to you Mr Lewis Fry, Member of Parliament for Bristol City, who is about

Elizabeth Ford and Isabella O. Ford to Walt Whitman, 30 December 1888

  • Date: December 30, 1888
  • Creator(s): Elizabeth Ford and Isabella O. Ford
Text:

I wish you were feeling better & stronger.

Annotations Text:

There are two additional postmarks, but only the city of New York and the year ("89") are visible.

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

Ellen Terry to Walt Whitman, 4 January 1888

  • Date: January 4, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ellen Terry
Annotations Text:

There is also a Camden postmark, but only the city and the month (JAN.) are legible.

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 11 October 1888

  • Date: October 11, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

I hope the bright American autumn weather will serve you better than the summer has done,—bringing a

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 12 December 1888

  • Date: December 12, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ernest Rhys
Text:

. & who were able to join with good effect in the discussion afterwards.

They had not seen it however, & were glad to come out to Lambeth Bridge where we stood till the fire

My American trip seems to have given me a new energy of assimilation too.

Never before were all the sights & sounds of London so full of suggestion; I think you must have unwittingly

Annotations Text:

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American-born writer and the author of such notable works as Daisy Miller

Joseph Pennell (1857–1926) was an American author and etcher.

He and his wife Elizabeth Robins were friends of Whitman in Camden.

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 20 February 1888

  • Date: February 20, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

the window; & on Sanborn's suggestion I took these to shew show to the people at the lecture, who were

They were anxious to hear all about you.

Annotations Text:

In 1860, when he was tried in Boston because of his refusal to testify before a committee of the U.S.

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 21 May 1888

  • Date: May 21, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ernest Rhys
Annotations Text:

I see in Bob the noblest specimen—American-flavored—pure out of the soil, spreading, giving, demanding

Lawrence Barrett (1838–1891) was an American stage actor who acted in the repertory company of the Boston

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 3 April 1888

  • Date: April 3, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
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

He traveled with his cousin, the historian Francis Parkman, to the American West in the 1840s and is

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 3 January 1888

  • Date: January 3, 1888
  • Creator(s): Rhys, Ernest | Ernest Rhys
Text:

I was beginning to fear lest you were not so well again.

If good wishes of friends were of any direct use, physically, I mean, as well as in other ways, it would

It was held at the foot of Cleopatra's Needle, round the base of which the various speakers were grouped

Through the day it had been wet & foggy in turn, but now the sky was of an American clearness, the half-moon

If Jesus were in London to-day, would he be in those churches?"—and the crowd shouted back, "No!

Annotations Text:

Joseph Pennell (1857–1926) was an American lithographer, illustrator, and etcher whose work often depicted

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

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 30 May 1888

  • Date: May 30, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Annotations Text:

I see in Bob the noblest specimen—American-flavored—pure out of the soil, spreading, giving, demanding

" 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

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 4 January 1888

  • Date: January 4, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

There were some jolly young fellows there, & some splendid girls, but among the last I think Alys Smith

Annotations Text:

York Evening Post and Herald newspaper correspondent and editor Charles Nordhoff (1830–1901); they 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

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 7 June 1888

  • Date: June 7, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
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

I see in Bob the noblest specimen—American-flavored—pure out of the soil, spreading, giving, demanding

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 7 March 1888

  • Date: March 7, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

You have no doubt got their invitation to lecture by this time—which I told you sometime ago they were

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 9 July 1888

  • Date: July 9, 1888
  • Creator(s): Ernest Rhys
Text:

of Edinburgh) affected me with its fine antiquity, its Walter-Scott-like atmosphere of old Scotch city

Annotations Text:

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

Traubel left behind enough manuscripts for six more volumes of the series, the final two of which were

Fancies at Navesink

  • Date: Between about 1885 and 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Alden of Harper's (they were rejected).

The poems were never published in the order outlined in the manuscript.

Annotations Text:

Alden of Harper's (they were rejected).

The poems were never published in the order outlined in the manuscript.; Many of the poems listed belong

"After the Supper and Talk" and "You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me" were both published first in Lippincott's

Francis Viele-Griffin to Walt Whitman, 26 April 1888

  • Date: April 26, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Francis Viele-Griffin
Annotations Text:

Jules Laforgue (1860–1887) was a French-Uruguayan Symbolist poet.

Franklin B. Sanborn to Walt Whitman, 25 December 1888

  • Date: December 25, 1888
  • Creator(s): Franklin Benjamin Sanborn | Franklin B. Sanborn
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see notes Dec 27 1888 American Social Science Association.

Annotations Text:

The names of the officers of the American Social Science Association are printed on the verso of this

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

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American author, poet, and abolitionist best known for writing

Funeral Interpolations

  • Date: August 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Some of the revisions, particularly those in blue pencil, were quite possibly made after that date.

Annotations Text:

Some of the revisions, particularly those in blue pencil, were quite possibly made after that date.;

Hamlin Garland to Walt Whitman, 16 November 1888

  • Date: November 16, 1888
  • Creator(s): Hamlin Garland
Annotations Text:

William Dean Howells (1837–1920) was an American realist novelist and literary critic, serving the staff

of the New York Nation and Harper's Magazine during the mid 1860s.

1871 to 1880, he was one of the foremost critics in New York, and used his influence to support American

In an Ashtabula Sentinel review of the 1860 edition Leaves of Grass, Howells wrote, "If he is indeed

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

Hamlin Garland to Walt Whitman, 18 October 1888

  • Date: October 18, 1888
  • Creator(s): Hamlin Garland
Text:

I do hope you'll keep gaining in strength—As Burroughs wrote me you were.

Annotations Text:

Ursula and John were married on September 12, 1857.

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

Hamlin Garland to Walt Whitman, 19 April 1888

  • Date: April 19, 1888
  • Creator(s): Hamlin Garland
Text:

that my friend Kennedy has told you something of me and the work I am trying to do for you and for American

you in a depressed mood many times, saying that he finds a "solid line of enemies" (I think those were

I am just now delivering a course of lectures in the city on "The Literature of Democracy" concerning

In these I am trying to analyze certain tendencies of American Life somewhat in accordance with the principles

An acquantaince among the younger literary editors of the city warrants me in saying that there is much

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

Hamlin Garland to Walt Whitman, 24 October 1888

  • Date: October 24, 1888
  • Creator(s): Hamlin Garland
Text:

New York City. And I will write him again about it.

Annotations Text:

William Dean Howells (1837–1920) was an American realist novelist and literary critic, serving the staff

of the New York Nation and Harper's Magazine during the mid 1860s.

1871 to 1880, he was one of the foremost critics in New York, and used his influence to support American

In an Ashtabula Sentinel review of the 1860 edition Leaves of Grass, Howells wrote, "If he is indeed

Hamlin Garland to Walt Whitman, 9 November 1888

  • Date: November 9, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Hamlin Garland
Text:

I wish you could have seen how deeply attentive they were and how moved by "Out of the Cradle" "To Think

Annotations Text:

of Chelsea, Massachusetts, began his career as a journalist with the Savannah Daily News in the mid-1860s

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

William Dean Howells (1837–1920) was the novelist and "Dean of American Letters" who wrote The Rise of

Henry H. Collins to Walt Whitman, 20 March 1888

  • Date: March 20, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Henry H. Collins
Text:

It is now some two years ago since your poems were first brought under my notice (by my friend Mr A.

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 17 February 1888

  • Date: February 17, 1888
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Annotations Text:

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

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

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 8 July 1888

  • Date: July 8, 1888
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

We both wanted to telegraph when you were so ill only we didn't know who to telegraph to, as Mr.

Annotations Text:

Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (1860–1895) was the count of Bogesund.

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

Hicks (1748–1830)

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were

The Hicksite separation appears

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were

[Houghton,] Mifflin & Co., Publishers to Walt Whitman, [11] January 1888

  • Date: January [11], 1888
  • Creator(s): Unknown (Mifflin & Co.) | [Houghton,] Mifflin & Co., Publishers
Annotations Text:

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) was an American critic, poet and editor of The Atlantic.

Hugh B. Macculloch to Walt Whitman, 15 June 1888

  • Date: June 15, 1888
  • Creator(s): Macculloch, Hugo B. | Macculloch, Hugh B.
Text:

Ingersoll will shortly contribute to THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW a brilliant article in defense of his

views of Christianity, which were powerfully assailed by the Rt.

For a limited period the following offer is made by me to new subscribers to THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW

Annotations Text:

I see in Bob the noblest specimen—American-flavored—pure out of the soil, spreading, giving, demanding

Ingersoll's June letter furthered the debate then being promoted by The North American Review as the

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

(New York: North American Publishing Company, 1886).

The idea that in the

  • Date: Between 1854 and 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

This manuscript is written on the back of a City of Williamsburgh tax form.

Fredson Bowers, have generally assumed that Whitman used the Williamsburgh tax forms from 1857 to 1860

The city of Williamsburgh was incorporated with Brooklyn effective January 1855, so the forms would have

been obsolete after that date (Whitman's Manuscripts: Leaves of Grass [1860] [Chicago: University of

At least two of the tax forms Whitman used were dated 1854 (see, for instance, "Vast national tracts"

Annotations Text:

This manuscript is written on the back of a City of Williamsburgh tax form.

Fredson Bowers, have generally assumed that Whitman used the Williamsburgh tax forms from 1857 to 1860

The city of Williamsburgh was incorporated with Brooklyn effective January 1855, so the forms would have

been obsolete after that date (Whitman's Manuscripts: Leaves of Grass [1860] [Chicago: University of

At least two of the tax forms Whitman used were dated 1854 (see, for instance, "Vast national tracts"

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