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And they were brought by a visitor today—curious to tell, a niece or cousin or what-not of Margaret Fuller

supererogatory.The words you wrote for the New Ideal, about the Colonel, in re the Whitman Tribute, were

But they were autograph letters—nothing more. And without stamps, too!

—and—"Who were the guns?"—already apparently forgetting Mrs. Howe.

Howe's treating the philosophy of the subject—probabilities of an American Salon. Mrs.

In spite of his weariness, had gone out a while yesterday—towards the City Hall, the outskirts, not to

Not out all today, though he said, "I do believe the trip to the city did me good instead of harm."

"I thought we were going to have a good time for a good while to come—now we must have a good time on

BACKWARD.It is exceedingly interesting to reflect on the great changes which have taken place in the American

Coates were in today? Well, they were.

American printing is all gloss, glare: the paper is bad, the ink is anemic—pale in the gills: makes me

There were three or four letters left but there didn't seem to be much of him left.

There was considerable feeling at the time—all were not agreed in favor of it—but my folks were emancipationists

Gave me his mail—letter and copy of "Good-Bye" for Logan Smith, Illustrated American for Wallace.

Years ago—I was a small boy—we were on a ferry-boat together, sitting in front of the cabin.

am not writing from an unworthy spirit of self-assertion: but that I should feel shame for myself, were

respects the most important comment yet made on Leaves of Grass—comment in the high sense—not the American

Institute for Artist-Artisans, inscribed autographically—"To the 'American' Poet Walt Whitman with the

yesterday's cyclone out in Pennsylvania and W. inquired carefully after that.After the two visitors were

"It is curious," said W., "the scrofulous old fellows they were—Gibbon—Dr.

He had read Lüders' paper in last Saturday's American.

conciliate the howlers: Leaves of Grass has gone through a number of editions since those objections were

After Lennon was gone W. said: "Did you notice how he set his American love up against the English like

The next day when I looked for the letters they were gone.

And gesture, look, were full of grace and expression.I asked him if he had read the Renan piece.

His shutters were thrown half open: rarely so.

Suddenly he added:—"We were talking of Buddha—Hundustan: I found something in the paper this morning—which

Crossett, an independent American missionary in China.

Again, "Lowell had believers—there were men ardent in his behalf—men of places, power—men with a right

He lived away from the city at a place called Storey Creek—lived with his parents.

When he would come to the city, we usually went to the theatre together—the Park Theatre, usually—and

And there were others, too—Tilden, for one. O yes! he was well known in New York even then.

Rice, proprietor of the North American Review, altho' nominally he may have corresponded with you—that

He has set about to secure the reminiscences of all eminent Americans who came into personal relations

Some of these papers he may publish in the North American Review, and others in the North American Review

The two letters that follow were dictated to a stenographer and signed by Redpath.North American Review

Didn't you tell me that Redpath and Ingersoll were great friends?

Some bits from Ingersoll's Shakespeare address were in Press.

Showed him the North American piece. He had not seen it. Read some of it to him.

And—"You were right—Tom was right—both. And now I am saved ferreting for it."

When I did have them, no price was low enough to persuade the world that they were to be desired!"

Some were as far back as 1860. One of that year, from the Springfield Republican, was very abusive.

Some were pinned in. Some were pasted.I sat there half an hour. Absorbed.

Harned said to me: "Walt is telling me our American literature is hodge-podge of hodge-podge!"

up by his deeds: the departments were full of Republicans left over.

W. said: "Horace and I were talking about it yesterday: I said to Horace 'it makes Mat a great man.'"

But while he looked pale and worn, voice and manner were certainly fuller and more vigorous.

Lippincott's with Joe Stoddart, the North American Review.

Urged me to read Stedman's American Poets. I had read the essays as they appeared in The Century.

(he speaks of his sick girl here—it was in 1883)—but powerful: a look into our work-shop while we were

Yet neither heat nor smoke were obvious to him. He asked me: "Is it too warm?"

"They were not so big—not so elaborate—as ours, but produced, I should say, the same emotionalistic,

He affects American.

He wrote a good deal for this paper among others"—lifting from his lap the copy of The American I had

It was not me alone—others know it as well as I do—others heard and were more indignant and confident

Asked me: "Will you leave the American with me?"

"The wife says, the last three or four days were the worst. Poor O'Connor!"

He had not yet seen the portrait (his own) in the Illustrated American—current number: now I called his

And so—whoever the cat, the man,—we were to hear W.'s version.

No answer yet—if I get it will spend part of the time at Atlantic City and part (I guess) at Ingram's

He thought it "very likely" that William had written the Illustrated American paragraph.Harry thought

To make gifts comfort and truly nourish these American soldiers, so full of manly independence, is required

W. said, "You were quite right—I am sure we should guard well these inner utterances—often they are only

Morris reports to me an expression of Gilchrist's to the Coateses, that there were but two real appreciators

I am surprised he did not say there were three.

We Two—how Long We Were Fool'd. WE TWO—HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D. WE two—how long we were fool'd!

We Two—how Long We Were Fool'd WE TWO—HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D. WE two—how long we were fool'd!

GeorgeKlawitter"We Two, How Long We were Fool'd" (1860)"We Two, How Long We were Fool'd" (1860)"We Two

, How Long We were Fool'd" first appeared as poem number 7 in the cluster "Enfans d'Adam."

After the 1860 edition, two lines were dropped from the poem.

Whitman apparently changed his mind several times as he worked on revisions of the 1860 edition of this

"We Two, How Long We were Fool'd" (1860)

We Two, How Long We were Fool'd

We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd. WE TWO, HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D.

WE two, how long we were fool'd, Now transmuted, we swiftly escape as Nature escapes, We are Nature,

We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd. WE TWO, HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D.

WE two, how long we were fool'd, Now transmuted, we swiftly escape as Nature escapes, We are Nature,

CarlSmeller"We Two Boys Together Clinging" (1860)"We Two Boys Together Clinging" (1860)This nine-line

poem was originally published as number 26 in the "Calamus" cluster of the 1860 Leaves of Grass.

Leaves of Grass: Facsimile Edition of the 1860 Text. Ed. Roy Harvey Pearce.

Walt Whitman's Manuscripts: "Leaves of Grass" (1860). Ed. Fredson Bowers.

"We Two Boys Together Clinging" (1860)

Misers, menials, priests alarming—air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities

, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities

, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, Cities

Misers, menials, priests alarming—air breathing, water drinking, on the turf of the sea-beach dancing, Cities

We struck a paragraph, yesterday, about Walt Whitman, and thought to wrench a joke out of it, but were

yard in Chrystie street—that have caused so much excitement of late in the eastern section of the city

graves, possibly in search of cadavers for medical education, a phenomenon not unusual in New York City

If we were asked the particular trait of national character from which might be apprehended the greatest

But it has been reserved for our city to put the damning climax to these deeds that disgrace humanity

the very wickedest criminal at Sing Sing Sing Sing was a prison located 32 miles north of New York City

graves, possibly in search of cadavers for medical education, a phenomenon not unusual in New York City

no. 2 (2003): 55–71, especially 66–67.; Sing Sing was a prison located 32 miles north of New York City

see: Lee Bernstein, "The Hudson River School of Incarceration: Sing Sing in Antebellum New York," American

manufactures, and all the principal themes of interest to men civilized life, and to men and women, were

common empire of H in the great Asiatic cities of Nineveh and Babylon and their empi empires, and the

—Vast libraries existed; Cheap copies of these books circulated among the commonality or were eligible

to the m, and there were institutions in which learning and religion grew together.

They were commissioned to develop the resources of the human mind in the cultivation of philosophy, and

it has been customary for the Legislature to appoint Commissioners to fulfil local duties in the cities

In this city, the appointment of Water Commissioners, Washington Park Commissioners, and other instances

In 1834, five Commissioners were appointed by the Governor under an act "to provide for supplying the

City of New York with pure and wholesome water,"—known now as the Croton Water act, although at its

In 1845, Commissioners were appointed by the Governor to grant ferry licenses between the City of New

The "school question" refers to the controversy surrounding early 1840s public schooling in New York City

By the 1840s, over a full third of the population of New York City consisted of immigrants, nearly half

of which were Irish.

"Where" asks the writer, "are the thunders of the American press?"

Alas, were we to publish what he has written, we should hear enough of those, with not enough of American

The "school question" refers to the controversy surrounding early 1840s public schooling in New York City

Irish Catholics were by far the most vocal and politically influential group opposing the teaching methods

of New York City consisted of immigrants, nearly half of which were Irish.

with having to subject their children to the teachings of a Protestant curriculum, where educators were

directly opposed those of the largely Democratic working class and immigrant population (James Grant

usually make their appearance, and every care should be taken, not only by the health department of our city

We would enjoin then upon all persons the necessity of co-operating with the proper officers of the city

It is almost needless to add that our mind swells with gratitude to those inhabitants of our city, and

over our heads, encourages us more and more in our determination to render Aurora the paper of the city

We glory in being true Americans . And we profess to impress Aurora with the same spirit.

We have taken high American ground—not the ground of exclusiveness, of partiality, of bigotted bias against

prospects cloudless and aspirations lofty, and evidences of public favor which, we proudly boast, were

However, Whitman also opposed the Native American Party, which explicitly opposed Irish Catholic immigration

hundreds of lives are lost by criminal rashness and carelessness—now it is the fall of a building in the city

Waterworks constitutes one of his longest sets of texts published between the second (1856) and third (1860

Brooklyn Daily Times editorials, note that Whitman "fought for a good system of waterworks for the city

flimsy, cheap and temporary series of works that would have long since broken down, and disgraced the city

In 1858, for instance, as the city council debated a revision to the ongoing construction, the project

and suggest that while the late 1850s may have been a period of struggle for Whitman the poet they were

But if this plan were resorted to an expense of several thousand a year would be caused by pumping the

will lay the subject before the Board of Aldermen, probably with a view to obtain the sanction of the city

The Water Works—Brooklyn City Bonds THE WATER WORKS—BROOKLYN CITY BONDS.

on the city bonds.

While there is a cent in the city treasury, the holder of city bonds can recover judgment and receive

his money, even, if it be denied him by the city authorities; and if there were no tax raised to pay

a tax on purpose to meet the liabilities of the city on its bonds.

the Water Fund a sum sufficient to pay for a grand Celebration of the introduction of water into the city—a

Let us have a celebration worthy of the occasion and of the city.

which the citizens of Brooklyn felt confidence, it was the construction of the works for supplying the city

If the present contract cannot avail to procure the city the canal it bargained for, we do not see how

Croton Aqueduct, N.Y., and Consulting Engineer in the construction of the works for the supply for this city

can be no fear of the permanent interruption of the works, for such a thing was never heard of as a city