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Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 21 March 1889

  • Date: March 21, 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 William D. O'Connor, 21 February 1883

  • Date: February 21, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

one—he showed it at first, & stronger still at last —that Saturday evn'g & Sunday afternoon he & I were

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 20 November 1888

  • Date: November 20, 1888
  • 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.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 20 March 1889

  • Date: March 20, 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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 20 July 1883

  • Date: July 20, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

The American (same mail with this,) after reading please forward to Dr Bucke.

Annotations Text:

O'Connor mentioned corrections in Bucke's book and referred to the "office editor" of The North American

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 20 January 1889

  • Date: January 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 William D. O'Connor, 20 January 1865

  • Date: January 20, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Eldridge and later John Burroughs, were to be his close associates during the early Washington years.

O'Connor (1832–1889) was the author of Harrington, an abolition novel published by Thayer & Eldridge in 1860

the most important, of the adulators who divided people arbitrarily into two categories: those who were

for and those who were against Walt Whitman.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 2 April 1889

  • Date: April 2, 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 William D. O'Connor, [19 September 1883]

  • Date: September 19, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

spirit, but because the facts I give are of current interest, and should be kept well before the American

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 19 March 1889

  • Date: March 19, 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 William D. O'Connor, 19 July [1882]

  • Date: July 19, 1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

cautious printed only 1000) began to come in from the bindery late that day—Early this forenoon they were

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 19 February 1889

  • Date: February 19, 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 William D. O'Connor, 19 February 1883

  • Date: February 19, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

stated that although he wanted to delete the passages mentioned, he was in a "dilemma," since they were

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, [1867?]

  • Date: 1867?
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

There were no startling developments. While Jeff was in St.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 18 March 1889

  • Date: March 18, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 18 June [1883]

  • Date: June 18, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

On August 12, 1882, Swinton informed the poet that his lecture on American literature had been translated

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 18 February 1889

  • Date: February 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

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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 18 August [1886]

  • Date: August 18, [1886]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

With additions he republished it as "Robert Burns as Poet and Person" in The North American Review, 143

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 17 September [1882]

  • Date: September 17, 1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

"American Queen" of yesterday— W W Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 17 September [1882]

Annotations Text:

No copy of the New York American Queen has been located.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 17 May [1882]

  • Date: May 17, 1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

As I wrote you before, the betes noir were To a common prostitute and A woman waits for me .

Unless those were left out he was instructed to indict and arrest to the law's extremity.

told you that Osgood & Co. formally notified me that they would continue the publication if those were

Marston is the target for you —If I learn more I will notify you— WW Have you seen my N A North American

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 17 March 1889

  • Date: March 17, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

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 William D. O'Connor, 17 April 1889

  • Date: April 17, 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 William D. O'Connor, 16–17 February [1889]

  • Date: February 16–17, [1889]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

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 William D. O'Connor, 16 April 1889

  • Date: April 16, 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 William D. O'Connor, 15 September [1867]

  • Date: September 15, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—Stoddard, Steadman, Aldrich, Howells, Garrison, &c. were mentioned—there appears to be nothing new to

lately been playing at Memphis, Tenn—is now about playing at Albany—Clapp remains as clerk in the City

Annotations Text:

Grier, "Walt Whitman, the Galaxy, and Democratic Vistas," American Literature, 23 (1951–1952), 332–350

See also Clapp's March 27, 1860 and October 3, 1867 letters to Whitman.

From 1860 to 1870, he was a literary reviewer for the New York World.

Dictionary of American Biography).

Hier, Jr., "The End of a Literary Mystery," American Mercury, 1 (1924), 471–478.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 15 February 1889

  • Date: February 15, 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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 14 March 1889

  • Date: March 14, 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 William D. O'Connor, 14 March 1883

  • Date: March 14, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

O'Connor were sisters.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 14 June 1888

  • Date: June 14, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Among the contributors were Stedman (see Traubel, Tuesday, August 14, 1888), Richard Watson Gilder (see

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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 14 July [1871]

  • Date: July 14, 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Y. you have seen in the papers —in five sixths of the city, it was curiously almost unfelt, every thing

new—in some respects they afford the most encouraging sign I have got—brown, bearded, worn, resolute, American-looking

men, dusty & sweaty—looked like veterans—the stock here even in these cities is in the main magnificent—the

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 14 January 1888

  • Date: January 14, 1888
  • 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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 14 April 1889

  • Date: April 14, 1889
  • 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

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 D. O'Connor, 14 April [1883]

  • Date: April 14, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Whitman, however, fibbed, for on May 28 Bucke wrote: "I see now that you were right about the Latin motto

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 13 September 1883

  • Date: September 13, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

which I meant to have sent you at the time, but missed somehow—I am well as usual— W W (Salt Lake City

Annotations Text:

On September 22 O'Connor wrote: "I return your Salt Lake City letter about Bacon and Shakespeare, having

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 13 March 1889

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

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

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

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 William D. O'Connor, 12 November 1882

  • Date: November 12, 1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

D. sales rather sluggish—(1500 were printed, towards 400 remain on the shelves in 23 Ninth St.)

Annotations Text:

Only 1,000 copies of Specimen Days were printed in 1882 (see Whitman's letter to Anne Gilchrist of October

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 12 March 1889

  • Date: March 12, 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 William D. O'Connor, 12 April 1888

  • Date: April 12, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

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 D. O'Connor, 11 September 1864

  • Date: September 11, 1864
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

night I was with some of my friends of Fred Gray association, till late wandering the east side of the City—first

I saw her with a McClellan medal on her breast—I called her & asked her if the other girls there were

yes every one of them, & that they wouldn't tolerate a girl in the place who was not, & the fellows were

Annotations Text:

Vallandigham and his followers were allowed to draft the platform.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 11 May 1870

  • Date: May 11, 1870
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

contributors at least two of Walt Whitman's friends, Conway and Alcott; see Frank Luther Mott, History of American

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 11 March 1889

  • Date: March 11, 1889
  • 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 D. O'Connor, 11 March [1883]

  • Date: March 11, 1883
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Horace Traubel reported that Whitman's "eyes were full of tears" (With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 11 July 1888

  • Date: July 11, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

On July 12, 1888 O'Connor wrote: "I have felt that you and I were brothers in misfortune."

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 11 February [1889]

  • Date: February 11, [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 William D. O'Connor, 11 April 1889

  • Date: April 11, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 1 March 1889

  • Date: March 1, 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 William D. O'Connor (for Moncure D. Conway), [10 November 1867]

  • Date: November 10, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

posture, & expression, though using only moderate words; and offering to the world, in himself, an American

Annotations Text:

In Notes on Walt Whitman, As Poet and Person (New York: American News Company, 1867), Burroughs wrote

Walt Whitman to William D. and Ellen M. O'Connor, 26 March 1865

  • Date: March 26, 1865
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

My brother would be in what I would almost call fair condition, if it were not that his legs are affected—it

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, 17 June 1889

  • Date: June 17, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

This postal card is addressed: Wm Carey | Century office Union Square | New York City.

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