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Wentworth Dixon to Walt Whitman, 24 February 1892

  • Date: February 24, 1892
  • Creator(s): Wentworth Dixon
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

The couple were the parents of at least four children: Myra Dixon, Nora Dixon, Wentworth Dixon, and Ellen

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

Walt Whitman's Dying Hours

  • Date: 13 February 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

The Delaware, broader than the East River, flows between the two cities.

know that in England and abroad you are regarded as one of the greatest, if not most true of all American

This was the last public appearance of Walt Whitman, and there were thirty-three persons present, the

Donaldson— If I understand what you have done, it is to make a plea for America and the Americans—it

some years in Washington, and have visited, and partially lived, in most of the Western and Eastern cities

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 8 February 1892

  • Date: February 8, 1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Later, after the city of Camden purchased Whitman's Mickle Street house, Dr.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 27 January [1892]

  • Date: January 27, [1892]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 23 January 1892

  • Date: January 23, 1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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

Walt Whitman to Hannah Whitman Heyde, 8 February 1892

  • Date: February 8, 1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

When the war ended, he became a pipe inspector for the City of Camden and the New York Metropolitan Water

Walt Whitman to Hannah Whitman Heyde, 4 March 1892

  • Date: March 4, 1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Jessie and her older sister Manahatta ("Hattie") were both favorites of their uncle Walt.

Walt Whitman to Hannah Whitman Heyde, 27 January [1892]

  • Date: January 27, [1892]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

When the war ended, he became a pipe inspector for the City of Camden and the New York Metropolitan Water

Walt Whitman to Hannah Whitman Heyde, 24 January 1892

  • Date: January 24, 1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

When the war ended, he became a pipe inspector for the City of Camden and the New York Metropolitan Water

Jessie and her older sister Manahatta ("Hattie") were both favorites of their uncle Walt.

Walt Whitman to Hannah Whitman Heyde, 24 February 1892

  • Date: February 24, 1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Jessie and her older sister Manahatta ("Hattie") were both favorites of their uncle Walt.

When the war ended, he became a pipe inspector for the City of Camden and the New York Metropolitan Water

Walt Whitman in Boston

  • Date: August 1892
  • Creator(s): Sylvester Baxter
Text:

Whitman's relations with Boston were of quite another kind.

But these visits were notable occasions in his life.

cities so far as the native social element, that which distinguishes them as American, was concerned

"Whereupon we went and had a good dinner at the American House."

The passionate toll and clang—city to city, join- ing, sounding, passing Those heart-beats of a Nation

Walt Whitman

  • Date: May 1892
  • Creator(s): William H. Garrison
Text:

Had the present city directory of the town been in existence, I could have found it authoritatively stated

The decorations of the room were insignificant, with the exception of two portraits, one of his father

All writers, whether classic or modern, were in his phrase "fellows," —a word of which he was very fond

In the matter of the accuracy with which these productions were printed he was scrupulously exact.

Some of the parts of this manuscript were written on bits of brown straw paper, others on manilla paper

W. I. Lincoln Adams to Walt Whitman, 9 January 1892

  • Date: January 9, 1892
  • Creator(s): W. I. Lincoln Adams
Annotations Text:

Frederick Gutekunst (1831–1917) was a well-known ninteenth-century American photographer in Philadelphia

Thomas W. H. Rolleston to Walt Whitman, 8 March [1892]

  • Date: March 8, [1892]
  • Creator(s): Thomas W. H. Rolleston
Annotations Text:

Krieg, chapter 8, "Dublin," Walt Whitman and the Irish (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000), 190

Thaddeus Hyatt to Walt Whitman, 18 March 1892

  • Date: March 18, 1892
  • Creator(s): Thaddeus Hyatt
Annotations Text:

Lorenzo Niles Fowler (1811–1896) and Orson Squire Fowler (1809–1887) were brothers from Cohocton, New

They established a Phrenological Cabinet in Clinton Hall in New York City in 1842, where Whitman received

Samuel Thompson to Walt Whitman, 25 February 1892

  • Date: February 25, 1892
  • Creator(s): Samuel Thompson
Text:

Wallace last night who told me how ill you were.

Robert G. Ingersoll to Walt Whitman, 9 February 1892

  • Date: February 9, 1892
  • Creator(s): Robert G. Ingersoll
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

Review of Leaves of Grass (1891–92)

  • Date: 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

. $1.00); the dainty American reissue of George Meredith's subtile sonnet sequence, 'Modern Love" (with

These works of two American and one English poet represent a great deal that is most salient in modern

Reminiscences of Whitman

  • Date: 11 April 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

"One day in the summer we were riding in the horsecars about Washington, and General Garfield came in

Mrs. L. Dillard to Walt Whitman, 16 March [1892]

  • Date: March 16, [1892]
  • Creator(s): Mrs. L. Dillard
Annotations Text:

A line has been drawn through "New wark," and the city of Camden has been added on the envelope.

Mrs. John R. Gardner to Walt Whitman, Before 16 March 1892

  • Date: Before March 16, 1892
  • Creator(s): Mrs. John R. Gardner
Text:

New York City This undated, partial letter from Mrs. John R. Gardner has been crossed out.

Men and Memories

  • Date: 16 January 1892
  • Creator(s): John Russell Young
Text:

We were a long time coming to this recognition.

There were potions to be mixed, and wrappings to be released and bound again.

I saw, as Emerson wrote, that in his book were incomparable things incomparably said.

And even the improprieties which barred it from the bazaars, the leaves, which were not fig leaves, were

Other editions were among the current literature of the railway stall and the shop.

Margaretta L. and William A. Avery to Walt Whitman, 1 March 1892

  • Date: March 1, 1892
  • Creator(s): Margaretta L. and William A. Avery
Annotations Text:

The Averys are likely referring to the family of Lillie and Priscilla Townsend, who were cousins of Whitman's

Literature it is certain

  • Date: Undated
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Literature it is certain would be fuller of vigor and sanity if authors were in the habit of composing

Leonard M. Brown to Walt Whitman, 29 January 1892

  • Date: January 29, 1892
  • Creator(s): Leonard M. Brown
Text:

Dear Mr Whitman I was very sorry indeed to hear a little while ago that you were so ill & should have

Lavinia F. Whitman to Walt Whitman, 17 January [1892]

  • Date: January 17, [1892]
  • Creator(s): Lavinia F. Whitman
Text:

Walt Whitman " as published in last evn'gs Paper, my soul enters with the pleasing tidings that you were

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 8 March 1892

  • Date: March 8, 1892
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
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

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 4 [March] 1892

  • Date: [March] 4, 1892
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Annotations Text:

Press, 1969], 348; Ted Genoways confirms the misdating in Walt Whitman: The Correspondence 7 [Iowa City

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 28 January 1892

  • Date: January 28, 1892
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

The last mail brought letters from Traubel which were the first to give us solid grounds of hope.

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

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 27 February 1892

  • Date: February 27, 1892
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

Anderton, nr Chorley Lancashire, England 27 Feb 1892 Dear Walt The American Mail has not come in yet—delayed

including nearly all the Preface to the 1855 edition, & he seemed quite entranced, & thrilled as if he were

Annotations Text:

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

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 25 February 1892

  • Date: February 25, 1892
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
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

affiliated with the Labour Church, an organization whose socialist politics and working-class ideals were

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 23 February 1892

  • Date: February 23, 1892
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

I wish that I were there to see you, & by a kiss to indicate this love that words are powerless to express

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

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 2 January 1892

  • Date: January 2, 1892
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
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

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

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 18 February 1892

  • Date: February 18, 1892
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Annotations Text:

February 27, 1892, letter to Whitman, facsimiles of Whitman's February 6–7 1892, letter to Johnston were

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 16 February 1892

  • Date: February 16, 1892
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
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

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 15 March 1892

  • Date: March 15, 1892
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

Be it as if I were with you, & here upon the paper I send you one as a token of my dearest love X Wallace

An Impression of Walt Whitman

  • Date: June 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Warmth and sunshine were outside, shadow and coolness within, with perfect Sabbath quiet.

too much neglected; that between an attention to material and extraneous interests, on the other, we were

driving the physical to the wall; as if life, this wonderful, mysterious life, were not primarily a

to the great elements of life, of seeing the world as a new world, and recreating it in words that were

He spoke of the pleasure of finding in Bryant allusions to those common objects of American landscapes

The Good Grey Poet

  • Date: 4 February 1892
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Then, like all good Americans, he became convinced that his mission was something else than a perpetual

The lad was to be the first of the American authors who was at once thoroughly national and yet not provincial

These were the years when he laid in his vast store of impressions and pictures, his true graduation

He was "rewarded" with a clerkship in a Government office, and while thousands were receiving indemnities

His fellow authors, among whom were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Edmund Clarence Stedman

George Humphreys to Walt Whitman, 9 March 1892

  • Date: March 9, 1892
  • Creator(s): George Humphreys
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

Fred Wild to Walt Whitman, 5 March 1892

  • Date: March 5, 1892
  • Creator(s): Fred Wild
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

Excerpt from A Yorkshireman's Trip to the United States and Canada, Chapter VI: Philadelphia and Germantown

  • Date: 1892
  • Creator(s): William Smith, F.S.A.S.
Text:

The Pennsylvania line traverses twelve of the American States, and has upwards of 7,500 miles of railway

cared for and well paid, and I was told that most of them own their houses, which I saw afterwards were

But when the school-days were over, and the necessities of poverty compelled him, young as he was, to

Whitman, thus encouraged, printed a further enlarged edition in 1860, and was considering the form which

suggestion of one of the secretaries, he was dismissed the service, on the ground that his writings were

Everett N. Blanke to Walt Whitman, 28 January 1892

  • Date: January 28, 1892
  • Creator(s): Everett N. Blanke
Annotations Text:

James Creelman (1859–1915) of Canada was a Canadian-American writer who earned a famous interview with

Elizabeth Porter Gould to Walt Whitman, 8 February 1892

  • Date: February 8, 1892
  • Creator(s): Elizabeth Porter Gould
Annotations Text:

inquire whether the response to Traubel had been received and to express disappointment that her verses were

not included among the notes and addresses from the birthday celebration that were gathered and published

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 6 January [1892]

  • Date: January 6, [1892]
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Annotations Text:

Johnston is referring to one of the four plaster busts of Whitman that were sculpted by Sidney Morse.

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, [5 March 1892]

  • Date: [March 5, 1892]
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Annotations Text:

affiliated with the Labour Church, an organization whose socialist politics and working-class ideals were

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

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 27 February 1892

  • Date: February 27, 1892
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Annotations Text:

affiliated with the Labour Church, an organization whose socialist politics and working-class ideals were

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 26 March 1892

  • Date: March 26, 1892
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
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

The magazine became successful by reprinting British novels before eventually publishing American authors

Six of Whitman's poems were published there between 1874 and 1892.

John White Alexander (1856–1915) was an American painter and illustrator, well known for his portraits

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 20 February 1892

  • Date: February 20, 1892
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Annotations Text:

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

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

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 17 February 1892

  • Date: February 17, 1892
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

are still falling, falling, falling, slowly, slowly, & transfiguring the black & grimy town into a 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

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

Dr. John Johnston to Walt Whitman, 16 March 1892

  • Date: March 16, 1892
  • Creator(s): Dr. John Johnston
Text:

I was very sorry to hear from M rs Traubel that you were going to lose your good, kind nurse M Zeller

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