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Rudolf Schmidt to Walt Whitman, 8 July 1889

  • Date: July 8, 1889
  • Creator(s): Rudolf Schmidt
Text:

Your postal card was already forwarded to me here in this little Swedish city the 4 and to day I received

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

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 9 July 1889

  • Date: July 9, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

off their friendship in late 1872 over Reconstruction policies with regard to emancipated African Americans

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 10 July 1889

  • Date: July 10, 1889
  • 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

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

May 31, 1889, were collected and edited by Horace Traubel.

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 12 July 1889

  • Date: July 12, 1889
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Annotations Text:

Only 300 copies were printed, and Whitman signed the title page of each one.

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 Louisa Orr Whitman, 12 July 1889

  • Date: July 12, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Amy and Warren Dowe were the children of Emma Dowe, Louisa Whitman's sister (see Whitman's letter of

The notes and addresses that were delivered at Whitman's seventieth birthday celebration in Camden, on

May 31, 1889, were collected and edited by Horace Traubel.

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 13 July 1889

  • Date: July 13, 1889
  • 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

The notes and addresses that were delivered at Whitman's seventieth birthday celebration in Camden, on

May 31, 1889, were collected and edited by Horace Traubel.

off their friendship in late 1872 over Reconstruction policies with regard to emancipated African Americans

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 13 July 1889

  • Date: July 13, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

off their friendship in late 1872 over Reconstruction policies with regard to emancipated African Americans

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

The notes and addresses that were delivered at Whitman's seventieth birthday celebration in Camden, on

May 31, 1889, were collected and edited by Horace Traubel.

Only 300 copies were printed, and Whitman signed the title page of each one.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 14 July 1889

  • Date: July 14, 1889
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

All goes quietly and well with us all here and if I could only feel that you were having a good time

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs and Richard Maurice Bucke, 19 July 1889

  • Date: July 19, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

off their friendship in late 1872 over Reconstruction policies with regard to emancipated African Americans

Ursula and John were married on September 12, 1857.

Walt Whitman to Charles W. Eldridge, 20 July 1889

  • Date: July 20, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

off their friendship in late 1872 over Reconstruction policies with regard to emancipated African Americans

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 25 July 1889

  • Date: July 25, 1889
  • 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

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 28 July 1889

  • Date: July 28, 1889
  • 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

The notes and addresses that were delivered at Whitman's seventieth birthday celebration in Camden, on

May 31, 1889, were collected and edited by Horace Traubel.

Walt Whitman to Susan Stafford, 30 July 1889

  • Date: July 30, 1889
  • 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

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

Deborah Stafford (1860–1945) was the sister of Harry Stafford. She married Joseph Browning.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 2 August 1889

  • Date: August 2, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Hamlin Garland (1860–1940) was an American novelist and autobiographer, known especially for his works

about the hardships of farm life in the American Midwest.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 4 August 1889

  • Date: August 4, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

Only 300 copies were printed, and Whitman signed the title page of each one.

The notes and addresses that were delivered at Whitman's seventieth birthday celebration in Camden, on

May 31, 1889, were collected and edited by Horace Traubel.

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 4 August 1889

  • Date: August 4, 1889
  • 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

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 5 August 1889

  • Date: August 5, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

off their friendship in late 1872 over Reconstruction policies with regard to emancipated African Americans

Walt Whitman to Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe, 8 August 1889

  • Date: August 8, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 8 August 1889

  • Date: August 8, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Only 300 copies were printed, and Whitman signed the title page of each one.

Robert Pearsall Smith to Walt Whitman, 13 August 1889

  • Date: August 13, 1889
  • Creator(s): Robert Pearsall Smith
Annotations Text:

writer and women's suffrage activist who ran for a seat in the British parliament soon after women were

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 14 August 1889

  • Date: August 14, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ernesty Rhys | Ernest Rhys
Text:

good-natured, impulsive, with the over-carefulness of the average Welshman tempered by his experiences of American

An infusion of American generosity & freedom would do them great good.

& other nine-days wonders, was the endless cosmopolitan ebb & flow of the peoples of the world,—American

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 14 August 1889

  • Date: August 14, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

off their friendship in late 1872 over Reconstruction policies with regard to emancipated African Americans

[Sara Stewart McGee Forsyth] to Walt Whitman, 14 August 1889

  • Date: August 14, 1889
  • Creator(s): Sara Stewart McGee Forsyth
Annotations Text:

Only 300 copies were printed, and Whitman signed the title page of each one.

Susan Stafford to Walt Whitman, 21 August 1889

  • Date: August 21, 1889
  • Creator(s): Susan Stafford
Text:

I did hope that we were not going to have any very hot weather this Summer but the past two or three

Annotations Text:

Deborah Stafford (1860–1945) was the sister of Harry Stafford, a young man whom Whitman befriended in

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

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

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

Walt Whitman to Susan Stafford, 22 August 1889

  • Date: August 22, 1889
  • 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 Richard Maurice Bucke, 24 August 1889

  • Date: August 24, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

good-natured, impulsive, with the over-carefulness of the average Welshman tempered by his experiences of American

An infusion of American generosity & freedom would do them great good.

& other nine-days wonders, was the endless cosmopolitan ebb & flow of the peoples of the world,—American

Annotations Text:

The "Emily Reed" was an American sailing ship known as a "Downeaster"; it was launched in 1880, when

The Fritzinger brothers were the children of a blind sea captain, Henry Whireman Fritzinger, for whom

Walt Whitman to Ernest Rhys, 25 August 1889

  • Date: August 25, 1889
  • 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

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

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 27 August 1889

  • Date: August 27, 1889
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

I wish you were here to enjoy this view, & this air, & also my grapes & peaches. Drop me a card.

Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 27 August 1889

  • Date: August 27, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

off their friendship in late 1872 over Reconstruction policies with regard to emancipated African Americans

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 Ellen M. O'Connor, 27 August 1889

  • Date: August 27, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

John Oliver to Walt Whitman, 28 August 1889

  • Date: August 28, 1889
  • Creator(s): John Oliver
Text:

(American Editn 4th.) speaking of American society you designate the religion of Boston as "bloodless

Have you a first Edition (American) of "November Boughs" to sell.

Annotations Text:

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer, author of The Scarlet Letter.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was an American poet whose poems, such as Paul Revere's Ride (

1860) and The Song of Hiawatha (1855) earned him the honor of having a bust installed at the Poets' Corner

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

Henry M. Alden to Walt Whitman, 28 August 1889

  • Date: August 28, 1889
  • Creator(s): Henry M. Alden
Annotations Text:

William Closson (1848–1926) was an American artist from Vermont.

George Inness (1825–1894) was an influential American landscape painter.

"The Valley of the Shadow of Death" was one of three paintings that were collectively titled "The Triumph

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 28 August 1889

  • Date: August 28, 1889
  • 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

The notes and addresses that were delivered at Whitman's seventieth birthday celebration in Camden, on

May 31, 1889, were collected and edited by Horace Traubel.

Only 300 copies were printed, and Whitman signed the title page of each one.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 29 August 1889

  • Date: August 29, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

probably send the picture by him —just had to pay nearly $40 for taxes to the banditti who govern our city

Annotations Text:

Whitman paid a city tax of $25.28 on August 24 and a water tax bill for $8.40 on August 28.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 2 September 1889

  • Date: September 2, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

off their friendship in late 1872 over Reconstruction policies with regard to emancipated African Americans

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 3 September 1889

  • Date: September 3, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard Maurice Bucke
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 notes and addresses that were delivered at Whitman's seventieth birthday celebration in Camden, on

May 31, 1889, were collected and edited by Horace Traubel.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 4 September 1889

  • Date: September 4, 1889
  • 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

Richard M. Bucke to Walt Whitman, 5 September 1889

  • Date: September 5, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard M. Bucke
Text:

You must be quite a little better than you were this time last year and I do not now see why you should

Annotations Text:

Bucke and his brother-in-law William John Gurd were designing a gas and fluid meter to be patented in

The notes and addresses that were delivered at Whitman's seventieth birthday celebration in Camden, on

May 31, 1889, were collected and edited by Horace Traubel.

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 12 September 1889

  • Date: September 12, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Text:

If I were sure that I could make any arrangement to keep a home, I should feel better, but all is so

Annotations Text:

Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, a six-volume reference work, was published between 1887

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 14 September 1889

  • Date: September 14, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

off their friendship in late 1872 over Reconstruction policies with regard to emancipated African Americans

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 Richard Maurice Bucke, 14 September 1889

  • Date: September 14, 1889
  • 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

off their friendship in late 1872 over Reconstruction policies with regard to emancipated African Americans

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 15 September 1889

  • Date: September 15, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

years of shoulder to shoulder work with the (to me) entirely hitherto unfamiliar class of skilled 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

Walt Whitman to Ellen M. O'Connor, 15 September 1889

  • Date: September 15, 1889
  • 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

Arnold and Whitman: The Author of "Light of Asia" Visits the American Poet

  • Date: 15 September 1889
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Arnold and Whitman: The Author of "Light of Asia" Visits the American Poet ARNOLD AND WHITMAN THE AUTHOR

OF "LIGHT OF ASIA" VISITS THE AMERICAN POET.

My second wife, you know, was an American lady, and that gives me a claim on your people.

I told him my children bore American names and that it pleased me to think and speak of Americans as

There were tears in the eyes of the English poet.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 18 September 1889

  • Date: September 18, 1889
  • 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 Ellen M. O'Connor, 19 September 1889

  • Date: September 19, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

James L. Corning to Walt Whitman, 19 September 1889

  • Date: September 19, 1889
  • Creator(s): James L. Corning
Annotations Text:

ship built in 1879 and owned by the Red Star Line; it operated between Antwerp, Belgium, and New York City

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 20 September 1889

  • Date: September 20, 1889
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

yes, we shall have good times yet—the old times were good but the new times shall be better.

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

Susan Stafford to Walt Whitman, 21 September 1889

  • Date: September 21, 1889
  • Creator(s): Susan Stafford
Text:

I did hope that we were not going to have any very hot weather this summer but the past two or three

Annotations Text:

Deborah Stafford Browning (1860–1945) was Susan and George Stafford's daughter.

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 22 September 1889

  • Date: September 22, 1889
  • 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

The notes and addresses that were delivered at Whitman's seventieth birthday celebration in Camden, on

May 31, 1889, were collected and edited by Horace Traubel.

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