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William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 29 March 1888

  • Date: March 29, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

for our cranky friend Johnson the planter His insinuations as to assumed peccadiloes of yrs yours were

Though, supposing all the things he mentioned were so, (and doubtless some of them were in a measure)

a long letter fr Charley Eldridge, wh. which I incorporated partly in the Bibiliog. under head of "1860

He says he finds a few vols. volumes of the fraudulent 1860 ed. edition in Los Angeles.

Annotations Text:

Tyrrell, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and many of the contributors were present and former Trinity

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

Joseph Edgar Chamberlin (1851–1935) was an American journalist for the Boston Transcript and the Youth's

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 1 July 1886

  • Date: July 1, 1886
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

You were partially right in thinking me connected with a large printing establishment.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 19 April 1886

  • Date: April 19, 1886
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
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

See The American-German Review 13 (December 1946), 27–30.

Perhaps Lilian Whiting (1859–1942), an American writer and journalist.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 5 February 1886

  • Date: February 5, 1886
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

I am going to address the American People (not the damned & twice damned literary & clerical rascals)

Annotations Text:

He was the author of many books and articles on German-American affairs and was superintendent of German

See The American-German Review 13 (December 1946), 27–30.

Fanny Raymond Ritter (c.1835–1891) was an American musician, writer, historian, and the wife of the German-American

The Ritters were friends of William Sloane Kennedy and William D.

During the late 1850s and throughout the 1860s, Abby and Helen were friends with Whitman and his mother

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 11 January 1888

  • Date: January 11, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

In 1860, when he was tried in Boston because of his refusal to testify before a committee of the U.S.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 5 December 1887

  • Date: December 5, 1887
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [25 February] 1888

  • Date: February 25, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

Southwestern Archaeological Expedition took place between 1886 and 1894 with the goal of unearthing Native American

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 3 February 1888

  • Date: February 3, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

William Dean Howells (1837–1920) was the novelist and "Dean of American Letters" who wrote The Rise of

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 10 January 1888

  • Date: January 10, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Had a good letter from Sidney Morse, & was (as tickled as Rhys says you were) over his fine old mother

Annotations Text:

In 1860, when he was tried in Boston because of his refusal to testify before a committee of the U.S.

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [18 August 1886]

  • Date: August 18, 1886
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

Moncure Conway (1832–1907) was a Unitarian minister who lived in England from the 1860s until 1885, where

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 2 August 1886

  • Date: August 2, 1886
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [13 December 1888]

  • Date: [December 13, 1888]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

I tell you I wish the world were full of such men.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 25 December 1888

  • Date: December 25, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

David McKay (1860–1918) took over Philadelphia-based publisher Rees Welsh's bookselling and publishing

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.

In 1860, when he was tried in Boston because of his refusal to testify before a committee of the U.S.

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

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 20 October 1888

  • Date: October 20, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

How I wish you were going to live 50 yrs years more.

Annotations Text:

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 18 March 1889

  • Date: March 18, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

They were real pretty, unusually good, in some respects.

Annotations Text:

Her novels were extremely popular, and Whitman particularly loved Consuelo and The Countess of Rudolstadt

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

In 1860, when he was tried in Boston because of his refusal to testify before a committee of the U.S.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 9 September 1888

  • Date: September 9, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

In 1860, when he was tried in Boston because of his refusal to testify before a committee of the U.S.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 18 October 1888

  • Date: October 18, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
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, 30 August 1888

  • Date: August 30, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
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, [4 September 1888]

  • Date: [September 4, 1888]
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
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, 28 August 1888

  • Date: August 28, 1888
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

Later the decree was altered, and O'Reilly was sent to Australia, where he escaped on an American whaler

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

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 6 May 1889

  • Date: May 6, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

We were very sorry for yr sake: the damage done is irreparable I suppose.

We were both of us—you & I—too careless.

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 to Walt Whitman, 18 May 1889

  • Date: May 18, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

William Dean Howells (1837–1920) was an American realist novelist and literary critic, serving the staff

of the New York Nation and Harper's Magazine during the mid 1860s.

1871 to 1880, he was one of the foremost critics in New York, and used his influence to support American

In an Ashtabula Sentinel review of the 1860 edition Leaves of Grass, Howells wrote, "If he is indeed

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 11–12 May 1889

  • Date: May 11–12, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Three or four golden robins were clipping about thro' the air, singing & chirping.

Annotations Text:

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

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 16 May 1889

  • Date: May 16, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Wife and I read the newspaper notice as we were coming up the hill in the evening, we said Hurrah!

Annotations Text:

It has a Boston, Mass. postmark in which only the city and the year of 1889 are legible.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 25 June 1889

  • Date: June 25, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

If it were not so very great it wd make me envious!

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 24 May 1889

  • Date: May 24, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
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

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

Wyatt Eaton (1849–1896), an American portrait and figure painter, organized the Society of American Artists

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.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 12 June 1889

  • Date: June 12, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

signal & wide-spread horror of the kind ever known in this country—curious that at this very hour, we 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

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 8 April 1889

  • Date: April 8, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

He bites hard—says "it wd be a vast pity if the book were to fall through," owing to my obstinacy I suppose

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, 28 March 1889

  • Date: March 28, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

Andrew James Symington's article on Whitman appeared in volume six of Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [18] April 1889

  • Date: April [18], 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
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

A Library of Great American Literature: From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time was an eleven-volume

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 3 November 1890

  • Date: November 3, 1890
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

You remind me of an incident: Dr Bucke & the attendant doctor I were making the rounds when we came to

Annotations Text:

The North American Review was the first literary magazine in the United States.

Whitman's friend James Redpath joined the North American Review as managing editor in 1886.

On October 3, 1890, Whitman had accepted an invitation to write for The North American Review.

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

Joseph ("Joe") Jefferson III (1829–1905) was an American actor and one of the most famous American comedians

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 23 August 1890

  • Date: August 23, 1890
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877) was an American author and diplomat, serving as U.S.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 6 August 1890

  • Date: August 6, 1890
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

Whitman's poems "The Pallid Wreath" (January 10, 1891) and "To The Year 1889" (January 5, 1889) were

Paul Carus (1852–1919), a German-American editor and theologian, edited the magazine from shortly after

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 10 September 1890

  • Date: September 10, 1890
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

of Chelsea, Massachusetts, began his career as a journalist with the Savannah Daily News in the mid-1860s

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 5 November 1889

  • Date: November 5, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

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.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 27 October 1889

  • Date: October 27, 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Her father & grandfather were deists.

Annotations Text:

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American author, poet, and abolitionist best known for writing

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [10 October] 1889

  • Date: [October 10], 1889
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

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

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1854–1939) was an American activist and editor of the anarchist periodical

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 15 October 1889

  • Date: October 15, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

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

(1809–1875) served as the Circuit Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit of the United States (The American

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 8 June 1890

  • Date: June 8, 1890
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

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

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 26 January 1890

  • Date: January 26, 1890
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
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 Poet of Freedom, which was published by Funk & Wagnalls Company of New York as part of their American

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 12 March [1890]

  • Date: March 12, [1890]
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
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, 3 May 1890

  • Date: May 3, 1890
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

He was the owner of Pfaff's, a basement beer cellar, located at 647 Broadway, where a group of American

For more on Whitman and the American bohemians, see Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley, ed., Whitman Among

the Bohemians (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2014).

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 31 March 1890

  • Date: March 31, 1890
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

For Whitman's writings on Carlyle, see "Death of Thomas Carlyle" (pp. 168–170) and "Carlyle from American

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 6 October 1890

  • Date: October 6, 1890
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

of Chelsea, Massachusetts, began his career as a journalist with the Savannah Daily News in the mid-1860s

Though Trowbridge became familiar with Whitman's poetry in 1855, he did not meet Whitman until 1860,

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 1 September 1890

  • Date: September 1, 1890
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

James Savage's (1784–1873) Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (1860) was an

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 14 September 1890

  • Date: September 14, 1890
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

Did you ever hear that the Booths were of Dutch origin? Mrs K. is sure she read it.

Annotations Text:

Edwin Thomas Booth (1833–1893) was an American actor, famous for performing Shakespeare in the U.S. and

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 17 October 1890

  • Date: October 17, 1890
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
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

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

controversial in the U.S. in the late 1880s after the first giant incinerator was build in New York City

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