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Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 23 December 1888

  • Date: December 23, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Walsh, an American author and editor of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

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.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 22 September 1888

  • Date: September 22, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

criticized William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (reprinted in American

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, 22 October 1889

  • Date: October 22, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

Bucke specifically requested on October 18, 1889 the rare 1872 book and a copy of O'Connor's novel of 1860

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 22 November 1891

  • Date: November 22, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

me out of a hole—I offer to pay $3000 (have paid 1500 & offer 1500 more) wh' it looks now as they were

that & am mighty glad so—Forman writes me that Heineman, Balestier, & Lovell want to purchase the American

Annotations Text:

Wolcott Balestier (1861–1891) was an American writer who went to London, England, in 1888 as an agent

Lovell (1853–1932) relocated to New York City and established a publishing company dedicated to reprinting

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 22 November 1890

  • Date: November 22, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Founded by the American journalist and reform writer Benjamin Orange Flower (1858–1918),The Arena was

the American Sunday-School Times.

," which was published in The North American Review 125 (March 1891), 332–338.

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

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 22 March 1889

  • Date: March 22, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

(p 772) of the American Supplement Brit: Encyc: has a pretty good statistical & friendly notice of me

Annotations Text:

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

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 22 July 1890

  • Date: July 22, 1890
  • 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

The Smith family were all friends and supporters of Whitman.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 22 January 1890

  • Date: January 22, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

His investigative reports were much discussed and often had significant social impact.

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

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

is a clipping from the Boston Evening Transcript of January 18 describing a series of lectures on American

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 22 February 1891

  • Date: February 22, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 22 April 1889

  • Date: April 22, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 21–22 December 1888

  • Date: December 21–22, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

; he also published biographies of Longfellow, Holmes, and Whittier (Dictionary of American Biography

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.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 21 September 1891

  • Date: September 21, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 21 September 1890

  • Date: September 21, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 21 October 1888

  • Date: October 21, 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

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.

—the question, namely, whether any American poet, not now living, deserves a place among the thirteen

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 21 November 1889

  • Date: November 21, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

see me—I like the two fellows, & they do me good (his brother Warren is my nurse)—I sent you "the American

Annotations Text:

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

book by his American translator.

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.

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 21 March 1891

  • Date: March 21, 1891
  • 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 Richard Maurice Bucke, 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

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

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 21 July 1891

  • Date: July 21, 1891
  • 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 Smith family were all friends and supporters of Whitman.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 21 July 1888

  • Date: July 21, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Weir Mitchell, the noted American physician and writer of historical fiction; the young Mitchell looked

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 21 January 1891

  • Date: January 21, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

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

; he also published biographies of Longfellow, Holmes, and Whittier (Dictionary of American Biography

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

A fair portion of its contents were devoted to Whitman appreciation and the conservation of the poet's

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 21 August 1890

  • Date: August 21, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 21 April 1891

  • Date: April 21, 1891
  • 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

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy 2d Annex" to Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 20 September 1891

  • Date: September 20, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

At this time, Wallace was visiting Bucke in London, Ontario, as part of his North American trip to visit

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 20 October 1891

  • Date: October 20, 1891
  • 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

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 Richard Maurice Bucke, 20 May 1889

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

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

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, 20 December 1888

  • Date: December 20, 1888
  • 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 Richard Maurice Bucke, 2–3 February 1890

  • Date: February 2–3, 1890
  • 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 Richard Maurice Bucke, 2–3 February 1889

  • Date: February 2–3, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Ursula and John were married on September 12, 1857.

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, [2–3 February 1888]

  • Date: [February 2–3, 1888]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Thomas Eakins (1844–1919) was an American painter.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 2–3 August 1891

  • Date: August 2–3 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 2 September 1888

  • Date: September 2, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Mr and Mrs Edward Coates have been over to see me—a cheery nice little visit—her atmosphere & talk were

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 Richard Maurice Bucke, 2 October 1890

  • Date: October 2, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Johnston (of New York) and Bucke were in the process of planning a lecture event in Whitman's honor,

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 2 May 1889

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

factories or shores often & plainly here sounding, & I rather like it—(blunt & bass)—some future American

Annotations Text:

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

Frank Baker (1841–1918) was an American anatomist from New York.

He also edited American Anthopologist and authored several medical monographs, including two papers on

Burrage, A Cyclopedia of American Medical Biography (Baltimore: The Norman Remington Company, 1920).

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 2 June 1889

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

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 2 July 1890

  • Date: July 2, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Whitman is referring to the group of thirty-one poems taken from the book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) that were

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 Richard Maurice Bucke, 2 July 1888

  • Date: July 2, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

1884, when George and Louisa moved to a farm outside of Camden and Whitman decided to stay in the city

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 2 January 1889

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

1884, when George and Louisa moved to a farm outside of Camden and Whitman decided to stay in the city

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 Richard Maurice Bucke, 2 February 1891

  • Date: February 2, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

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.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 19–20 January 1889

  • Date: January 19–20, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

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

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, 19–20 February 1889

  • Date: February 19–20, 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

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

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

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 19 September 1890

  • Date: September 19, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

therefore that you are entirely wrong to be 'annoyed' at a demonstration in your favor even if it were

James McKeen Cattell (1860–1944) was professor of psychology (the first to hold such a position in the

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 19 May 1889

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

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

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 19 March 1891

  • Date: March 19, 1891
  • 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

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

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 Richard Maurice Bucke, 19 March 1888

  • Date: March 19, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Thomas Eakins (1844–1919) was an American painter.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 19 February 1891

  • Date: February 19, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 18–21 December 1889

  • Date: December 18–21, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

was one half of the Boston-based abolitionist publishing firm Thayer and Eldridge, who issued the 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 Richard Maurice Bucke, 18–20 December 1890

  • Date: December 18–20, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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.

," which was published in The North American Review 125 (March 1891), 332–338.

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

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

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