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C.D.Albin"Promise to California, A" (1860)"Promise to California, A" (1860)Whitman's "A Promise to California

" originally appeared as number 30 in the "Calamus" cluster of the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass and

promises to travel west and teach his fellow citizens about the vigorous camaraderie necessary for American

"Promise to California, A" (1860)

with which he regarded the western landscape and the men and women who erected homes, towns, and cities

is not so much a hymn to beauty, innocence, or creative fertility as it is a hymn in praise of population

C.D.AlbinWest, The AmericanWest, The AmericanFor Walt Whitman, the American West represented a point

who would become the collective progenitors of his golden American future.

Frontier: American Literature and the American West. By Fussell.

Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth. By Smith.

West, The American

Anne Gilchrist is best known in American literature as the Englishwoman who fell passionately in love

Hers were frequent and ardent, his less frequent and friendly.

Anne and Walt met in the hotel where the Gilchrists were staying until they found a house.

almost daily visitor at their house on North 22nd Street, entertaining his friends as freely as if it were

Her letters—no longer passionate but reflecting a loving companionship—were frequent, and she worked

shrubbery all tell to me the same tale A tale of peacefulness and isolation from the busy, busy, striving Cities

high and vapory blue a lone Mountain to whose heights I aspire to climb and on its top to place an American

I see many friends and many who were friends of my Father and Mother.

here and to many I am a "regular suprise party" Hearing them talk of long ago makes me feel as if I were

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

men & women—poets or other—ahead of their time, have been well used to such, but, if a subscription were

Walt Whitman My name is not for publication, though if my subscription were for five thousand dollars

The play was "Our American Cousin."

She did indeed marry her stepbrother, as Bloor goes on to note, though they were not related by blood

of precaution, Washington being most of the war-time virtually, & now & then literally, a besieged city

interruptions to write—but it makes no difference whether you address as above, or to my office in the city

Both Larr and Bush were assigned to quartermaster duty in Company I of the 1st Indiana.

Webb, President of the Free College of the City of New York, and from Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Rev. Wm.

to inform me that he had brought your books with him from America, a gift from you, and that they were

The coming year should give new life to every American who has breathed a breath of that soul which inspired

the great founders of the American Constitution, whose work you are to celebrate.

The book might pass for merely hectoring and ludicrous, if it were not something a great deal more offensive

Punch made sarcastic allusion to it some time ago, as a specimen of American literature.

THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETER. Editorial Department.

There is a drawn-in line beginning at the top of the page above the words "THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW"

All these were meant for thee, and more I need not now extract.

And I take pleasure in what men would call my personal defects for I can, standing by as it were an outsider

And if it were possible, I know thou wouldst come. Yet it shall come to pass somehow, soon or late.

plucked from the soil of his inmost bosom to send to Walt Whitman the American, poet, brother and lover

the curious, beautiful self-deception of youth: Stoker, this boy: it's the same: they thought they were

writing to me: so they were, incidentally: but they were really writing more definitely to themselves

For Whitman's writings on Carlyle, see "Death of Thomas Carlyle" and "Carlyle from American Points of

If all the talks of you which are heard in our family were telephoned to your ear, you would have daily

"Uncle Walt would enjoy this;" "I wish Uncle Walt could hear that;" "If Uncle Walt were only here," are

Becoming A Man of metal , as it were! This atomic theory is very pretty as it stands: is it not?

Our conversation turned to modern education, upon which his views were frequently radical.

His friends and admirers, however, were not so philosophical as he; they did not hesitate to condemn

sufficiently intimate to hail cheerily, when their doings were, or were not, to our liking, and who

On the occasion of his visits, there were usually other guests in the house, mostly young folks, who

In his later publication, I find many passages that were displayed to me in embryo.

Well I feel at home here and dont think I will come to the city untill I am muster out for good Everything

Lutt so I was not alone had quite a nice time told them how long I had been in city and what kept me

Adrian Bartlett was a friend of Joseph Harris and Lewis Brown; all three met Whitman while they were

According to Brown's letter of September 5, 1864, the three young men were living in a Washington boardinghouse

I am glad to Know that you are once more in the hotbed City of Washington So that you can go often and

majority of his poems: he praises both heterosexual and homosexual love in the "Children of Adam" (1860

) and the "Calamus" (1860) poems, and the narrator of "Song of Myself" (1855) empathizes with blacks

Epicurus.Epicurus's notion of prudence may have influenced Whitman's writing, including his definition of the American

American Literature 10 (1938): 202–213.Jones, W.T.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921.Wright, Frances.

returned to France and became acquainted with the dadaists, several French writers, and a number of Americans

In 1923, Cowley returned to New York City, where he published Exile's Return (1934), a literary history

and 1947, Cowley insisted that the early versions of Whitman's poems are his most powerful, for they were

Cowley's opinions on Whitman thus represent a modern and considered evaluation of a poetic forebear to American

to Jane Baillie Welsh in 1826, Carlyle moved to Craigenputtock, where he wrote numerous essays that were

Carlyle also began to lecture; his May 1840 lectures were published in On Heroes, Hero Worship & the

Carlyle's tenets were further outlined in works such as Chartism (1839) and Past and Present (1843).

Carlyle's later writings were increasingly conservative and antidemocratic, as evidenced in Latter-Day

"Carlyle from American Points of View." Prose Works 1892. Ed. Floyd Stovall. Vol. 1.

I had a very pleasant passage and enjoyed the ride very much but yet I found that my wounds were somewhat

transferred to the Invalid Corps in July and sent to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, where invalid soldiers were

With each language were imported poetic, artistic, and cultural seeds.

Most of my friends were English.

And the consciousness of being the poet of such Americanness.

The city, and the countryside, everything. There is nothing.

cities.

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

If only Camden were a little near London!

1892 in a spectacular shipwreck off the Isle of Wight, England; all passengers and the entire crew were

Now, this let ter I send you has only come out of the reading of your late article in the North American

Gannett say, a friend of his a lady who knew you, said you were "coarse."

If I were younger I would strive with all my to do something worthy of my worship of your genius, worthy

and satisfy me beyond all expectation, and I write without compliment or reserve to The Man, The American

This letter is addressed: Walt Whitman | Washington City | D.C. from Mr. Alcott Ans.

Emerson is just home from your city of steeples and tracks, but I have not spoken with him yet.

This letter is addressed: Walt Whitman | Washington City | D.C.

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

The proper District is that in which the alleged offences were committed. Very respectfully, A. T.

I suppose that between the dates named your regular services as Commissioner were in frequent, perhaps

If it were before, the pressure of business at the close of the session prevented an immediate nomination

in this Department in support of the application of General Enochs for a Territorial appointment, were

sentence was more severe than had been usual in the District of New Jersey—"that certain statements were

He had the case before him when the facts were fresh, and when he had the benefit of hearing all that

," at Pine Bluff, in place of the "Mountain Echo," at Fayetteville, and the "Free Press" at Forest City

States for the District of Virginia, relative to this account for services in the Hastings Court of the City

Baldwin, master of the American brigantine "James Crosby," of New London.

Territory, has been absent since the latter part of last December, and is now reported to be at the City

by Mr. certain testimony offered relative to Mexican claims Partridge, who some time ago left this city

Grant, to annul sundry patents for land issues by the United States, on the ground that the patents were

John Grant, Ohio. official participation declined. located it upon lands in that District and surveys were

the United States; that between the years 1823 and 1847, patents for the whole Six thousand acres were

or Deputy Surveyors of the United States; and that at that time persons employed in the Land office were

If it were so, I would certainly spend a portion of it in North Carolina, in accordance with Gov.

inform you that the District Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to whom the papers were

Spear as special agent for the Indians at Cheyenne River Agency, Dakota Territory, which were transmitted

Baldwin,) of the American brigantine James Crosby, of New London, of one of the crew of that vessel.

Muir produced a certificate of naturalization from the Superior Court of the city of Chicago, and claimed

under it the privileges of an American citizen.

District Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois to make the motion in the Superior Court of the city

Muir has had the benefit of American citizenship by virtue of naturalization fraudulently obtained, I

But my impressions were, and still are, (subject, of course, to be reversed, if they appear incorrect