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But we had nearly forgotten "Brahma," and were only reminded of it by the appearance in the last number

Reader, the Atlantic Monthly, the best of American magazines, publishes two pages and a half of this

are eagerly looking for your proposed letter to the crowd Henry Clapp, Jr. to Walt Whitman, 27 March 1860

Whitman published the poem "Bardic Symbols" in the Atlantic Monthly 5 (April 1860), 445–447.

The poem was revised as "Leaves of Grass. 1" in Leaves of Grass (1860) and reprinted as "Elemental Drifts

was a Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860

.— I am glad you like Boston Walt, you know I have said much to you in praise both of the city and its

Vaughan to Walt Whitman, 27 March 1860

Vaughan worked for the company in 1860.

, April 30, 1860, and May 21, 1860.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1809–1882) delivered a March 23, 1860, lecture on "Manners" in New York City.

See Vaughan's letter to Whitman of March 21, 1860.

Vaughan reminded Whitman of his promise in his letters to the poet of March 27, 1860 and April 9, 1860

If indeed, we were compelled to guess the meaning of the poem, we should say it all lay in the compass

of these lines of Tennyson—the saddest and profoundest that ever were written: Break, break, break,

Price, 29 March 1860

W. corner Greenwich and Horatio streets, | New York | city. Postmark: Boston | Mar | 29 | (?).

was the Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860

The date of the meeting was probably March 17, 1860, since on that day Emerson obtained reading privileges

Revised as "Leaves of Grass. 1" in Leaves of Grass (1860) and reprinted as "Elemental Drifts," Leaves

I am stopping at a lodging house, have a very nice room, gas, water, good American folks keep it—I pay

Walt Whitman to Thomas Jefferson Whitman, 1 April 1860

(Heyde was still in a genial mood when he wrote again on May 18, 1860, to Whitman.

Andrew was recovering from an illness, "made worse," according to Jeff in a letter dated April 3, 1860

Relations between the two families were sometimes strained; see Whitman's letter from March 22, 1864

Of the forthcoming Leaves of Grass, Jeff wrote on April 3, 1860: "I quite long for it to make its appearence

Your affectionate Brother Jeff Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 3 April 1860

See Walt Whitman's letter to Thomas Jefferson Whitman dated April 1, 1860.

Jeff's first daughter, Manahatta ("Hattie"), would be born on June 1860.

my letter we are all well good bie I am glad you are so well pleased with Boston Wednesday 4 April 1860

(To W. in Boston) Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [4 April 1860]

This letter dates to April 4, 1860.

of the New York Tribune on April 3, 1860.

Therefore, the letter dates April 4, 1860.

, 1860 letter to Walt Whitman.

, 1860 letter to Walt Whitman.

Brooklyn April 6, 1860 Box P.O.

my own pleasure at hearing that your "Leaves of Grass," in its next issue, is to eminate from that City

past personal experience and without wishing to intrude myself above my true level I could wish I were

Sammis to Walt Whitman, 6 April 1860

Vaughan to Walt Whitman, 9 April 1860

Vaughan worked for the company in 1860.

See the letters from Vaughan to Whitman dated March 21, 1860, and March 27, 1860.

27, 1860, April 30, 1860, and May 21, 1860.

See Vaughan's letter to Whitman of March 21, 1860.

Vaughan reminded Whitman of his promise in his letters to the poet of March 27, 1860 and April 9, 1860

Jamaica April 16th 1860 Dear Brother Walt, I was at home yesterday as usual  everything is going on about

Thomas Jefferson Whitman to Walt Whitman, 16 April 1860

Jeff writes in a letter to Walt from April 3, 1860, that "Andrew has been very sick but was getting better

These volumes were in the poet's library at his death.

, the originator of the "Lyceum" lectures, and editor of the North American Review in 1886.

He concluded his first letter to Whitman on June 25, 1860: "I love you, Walt!

, 1860. For more information on Redpath see "Redpath, James [1833–1891]."

disbursements are we will remit by return of mail, or will arrange the matter on your return to this city

Frederick Baker to Walt Whitman, 23 April 1860

See Whitman's response to Frederick Baker from April 24, 1860.

Krieg, A Whitman Chronology (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1998), 23.

Yours &c Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Frederick Baker, 24 April 1860

On April 23, 1860, Frederick Baker, attorney at law, 15 Nassau Street, New York City, wrote to Whitman

Vaughan to Walt Whitman, 30 April 1860

It is postmarked: New York | Apr 30 | 1860.

Vaughan worked for the company in 1860.

, March 27, 1860, and May 21, 1860.

In March 1860, Whitman traveled to Boston to meet with William W. Thayer and Charles W.

On April 16, 1860, in Farnborough, England, acknowledged American boxing champion John Carmel Heenan

The printers and foremen thought I was crazy, and there were all sorts of supercilious squints (about

Walt Whitman to Thomas Jefferson Whitman, 10 May 1860

In 1860 its circulation was 400,000; see Mott, A History of American Magazines, 2:356–363.

New York, May 12, 1860. My dear Walt, The books are duly delivered.

Henry Clapp, Jr. to Walt Whitman, 12 May 1860

Henry Clapp, Jr. to Walt Whitman, 14 May 1860

The review of Leaves of Grass that appeared in the New–York Saturday Press on June 2, 1860, was signed

In a letter to Clapp dated June 7, 1860, Juliette Beach explained the nature of the mistake and expressed

(For Calvin Beach's review of the 1860 Leaves of Grass see "Leaves of Grass.")

If these were love letters, Walt Whitman hardly treated Mrs. Beach's heart-stirrings discreetly.

See George Pierce Clark, "'Saerasmid,' An Early Promoter of Walt Whitman," American Literature (1955)

Vaughan to Walt Whitman, 17 May 1860

It is postmarked: New-York | May 18 | 1860.

Vaughan worked for the company in 1860.

In March 1860, Whitman traveled to Boston to meet with William W. Thayer and Charles W.

Vaughan acknowledges receiving replies from Whitman in his letters to the poet of March 21, 1860, March

27, 1860, April 30, 1860, and May 21, 1860.

Burlington May 18. 1860 Dear Walt. Received your book, also a letter for Han.

myself—I want to visit it—I think that I shall have to return to that place or Boston or get nearer some city—Give

Heyde to Walt Whitman, 18 May 1860

oceans and inland seas, over the continents of the world, over mountains, forests, rivers, plains, and cities

Consequently, Walt Whitman, who presents himself as the Poet of the American Republic in the Present

Meantime we submit, as appropriate in this connection, the following critical remarks from the North American

taste and skill in book-making, that has ever been afforded to the public by either an English or an American

Year 85 of the States (1860—61). Walt Whitman

Year 85 of the States—1860-61. 1 vol., pp. 456.

His writings were neither poetry nor prose, but a curious medley, a mixture of quaint utterances and

people were to be enlightened and civilized and cultivated up to the proper standard, by virtue of his

How the floridness of the materials of cities shriv- els shrivels before a man's or woman's look!

The comedic works of François Rabelais (c. 1490-1553) were known for their risqué quality.

The comedic works of François Rabelais (c. 1490-1553) were known for their risqué quality.

Vaughan to Walt Whitman, 21 May 1860

Vaughan worked for the company in 1860.

acknowledges receiving replies from Whitman in this letter, and in his letters to Whitman of March 21, 1860

, March 27, 1860, and April 30, 1860.

In March 1860, Whitman traveled to Boston to meet with William W. Thayer and Charles W.

Cooper—possibly Robert's mother—were Vaughan's roommates after Vaughan left Whitman's Classon Avenue

Boston May 24, 1860 Dear Walt, I have this day sent to Mr. Clapp Bound Vols.

our hand again—on paper—and say goodbye Thayer & Eldridge Thayer & Eldridge to Walt Whitman, 24 May 1860

was the Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860

twenty items on Whitman appeared in the Press before the periodical folded (for the first time) in 1860

In a March 12, 1860, letter to Thayer and Eldridge, Clapp suggests that Whitman's publishers "should

poet" and asserting "I love the poem" ("Thoughts and Things" New-York Saturday Press, January 14, 1860

For the Times review of the 1860 Leaves of Grass see "The New Poets."

For the first time in American history a native poet sings to us of America.

hates, and all the fiery passions of the people; may write themselves unbelievers in the destiny of American

holds the right reader with a magnetism as strong as the Poles. he is the most oriental and the most American

of Americans.

True as the needle to the North is he true to his country, to the brave mother language, and to the American

I shall send you a tally of the latter as I Walt Whitman to Thayer & Eldridge, May 1860

It would appear, then, that despite his reference in the letter from May 10, 1860 to his imminent departure

inflexible as it is—forms, after all, the truest illustration, if not representative, of the real American

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politics, art or literature, we present here a finely-executed portrait of W ALT W HITMAN , the new American

publication of a superb edition of whose poems "Leaves of Grass" is bringing him permanently before the American

day and generation. was born in Brooklyn, Long Island, May 31, 1818, and is yet a resident of the "City

I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is

In 1856 he issued another and somewhat enlarged edition, which were speedily disposed of.

The 'Distinctive American Poem'—the only one (God be thanked!)

the novels of de Kock find place upon parlor tables, and the obscene pictures, which boys in your city

congress of the sexes is a sacrament, a holy secret locked in the breasts of two persons, which it were

Y. , May 19, 1860.

The review of Leaves of Grass that appeared in the New York Saturday Press on June 2, 1860, was signed

The review of Leaves of Grass that appeared in the New York Saturday Press on June 2, 1860, was signed

In a letter to Clapp dated June 7, 1860, Juliette Beach explained the nature of the mistake and expressed

[From the Albion, May 1860.] Messrs.

The above was written, and almost all in type, before we were aware that any similar notice had been

refusal to recognize such a distinction as decent and indecent—is monstrous beyond precedent, and were

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Thayer Thayer & Eldridge | June 11 1860 William Wilde Thayer to Walt Whitman, 5 June 1860

Eldridge, the Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860

Thayer & Eldridge had reprinted his novel Amy Lee early in 1860.

The review Thayer and Eldridge sent to Whitman appeared in the Boston Banner of Light (2 June 1860).

The review of Leaves of Grass that appeared in the New-York Saturday Press on June 2, 1860, was signed

For Calvin Beach's review of the 1860 Leaves of Grass see "Leaves of Grass."

A NEW AMERICAN POEM.

It has been a favorite subject of complaint with English critics and reviewers, in treating of American

We have an American poem. Several of them. Yes, sir. Also a great original representative mind.

She married Heenan in September 1859; it became public knowledge in January 1860.

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the New Nebuchadnezzar" in a list of Henry Clapp's bon mots in the New-York Saturday Press, May 26, 1860

On 16 April 1860, in Farnborough, England, Heenan fought Tom Sayers, the British Champion, in the "World

She married Heenan in September 1859; it became public knowledge in January 1860.

In February 1860 Alexander Menken revealed that he had never divorced Adah and she was publicly reviled

published a number of poems in the Sunday Mercury, including "The Autograph on the Soul" in April 1860

Year 85 of the States—(1860–61) This is a new edition of the work of Walt Whitman, which some years ago

rampant, but not insufferable, fully believing himself to be a representative man and poet of the American

We should advise nobody to read it unless he were curious in literary monstrosities, and had a stomach

The radical abolitionist sympathies of Thayer & Eldrige, the publishers of the 1860–61 edition of Leaves

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The radical abolitionist sympathies of Thayer & Eldrige, the publishers of the 1860–61 edition of Leaves

Islip, Long Island , June 5th , 1860 Leaves of Grass

Look at Walter Whitman, the American philosopher who is centuries ahead of his contemporaries, who, in

See editorial note 6 for the following review A New American Poem .

William Seward, Charles Sumner, and Elijah Parish Lovejoy, were all famous anti-slavery advocates.

See editorial note 6 for the following review A New American Poem.

crowd including Whitman (Lesser 60– 63).; William Seward, Charles Sumner, and Elijah Parish Lovejoy, were

Walt Whitman to Henry Clapp, Jr., 12 June 1860

Leland, which had appeared earlier in the Philadelphia City Item: a poem entitled "Enfans de Soixante-Seize

Leland (1828-68) was the author of Grey-Bay Mare, and Other Humorous American Sketches (Philadelphia:

Boston June 14, 1860 Dear Walt, Your favor came duly to hand.

As soon as cooler weather comes and people are crowding the great cities we intend to advertise largely

shall shortly come out with an advertisement to touch the pleasure travellers in all the principal cities

— Meanwhile the Papers are noticing it pretty well—the Scottish American has a very fair notice, and

Yours Truly Thayer & Eldridge Thayer & Eldridge to Walt Whitman, 14 June 1860

was the Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860

twenty items on Whitman appeared in the Press before the periodical folded (for the first time) in 1860

For the 1860 Leaves of Grass Whitman abandoned the green binding used for the 1855 and 1856 editions.

was a free, sixty-four-page promotional pamphlet published by Thayer and Eldridge to advertise the 1860

See Thayer and Eldridge to Walt Whitman, June 27, 1860.

[From the Philadelphia City Item] WALT WHITMAN. BY HENRY P. LELAND.

Those old-world conquerors, the Romans, carried just such tools, and Americans of all nations now extant

raftsmen, and farmers and red-cheeked matrons, and omnibus-drivers and mechanics; and for all true Americans

Malaga, Spain, was once a major Moorish city and port, famed for its figs and wine.

In 1487 the city fell to Isabella and Ferdinand, the Christian conquerors.

Malaga, Spain, was once a major Moorish city and port, famed for its figs and wine.

In 1487 the city fell to Isabella and Ferdinand, the Christian conquerors.; Quevredo is a misspelling

Recently the writer has appeared in a large volume, (published in the puritanical and transcendental city

generation had its own Messiah, that he was the Messiah of his time, and that he and his followers were

Thus they were free to form relationships as they pleased. Heber C.

generation had its own Messiah, that he was the Messiah of his time, and that he and his followers were

Thus they were free to form relationships as they pleased.; Heber C.

It is like the sound of the wind or the sea, a fitting measure for the first distinctive American bard

who speaks for our large-scaled nature, for the red men who are gone, for our vigorous young population

careless or hap-hazard, anymore than Niagara, the Mississippi, the prairies, or the great Western cities

Malden, June 25th, 1860. O rare Walt Whitman!

James Redpath to Walt Whitman, 25 June 1860

John Brown (Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860), a correspondent for the New York Tribune during the war

, the originator of the "Lyceum" lectures, and editor of the North American Review in 1886.

He met Whitman in Boston in 1860 (Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of Walt Whitman, The Library of Congress

Revised as "A Broadway Pageant (Reception Japanese Embassy, June 16, 1860)" in Drum-Taps (1865) and reprinted

Among American authors there is one named Walt Whitman, who, in 1855, first issued a small quarto volume

city, and brought up in Brooklyn and in New York.

They are certainly filled with an American spirit, breathe the American air, and assert the fullest American

Year 85 of the States (1860—61). London: Trübner & Co.

cantos were published in 1773.

The first three cantos of his epic poem, The Messiah (Der Messias), were published in 1749; the final

cantos were published in 1773.

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Leaves of Grass (Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, year 85 of the States—1860–61. London: Trübner.)

On that occasion we were spared the trouble of setting forth the new poet's merits, as he or his publisher

was good enough to paste into his presentation-copy a number of criticisms from American periodicals

We are almost ashamed to ask the question—but do American ladies read Mr. Whitman?

A sort of catalogue of scenes of American life, which, according to Mr.

London: Trübner and Co. 1860.

Hartford, July 11th, 1860. Know Walt Whitman that I am a woman! I am not beautiful, but I love you!

Susan Garnet Smith Hartford, Connecticut Susan Garnet Smith to Walt Whitman, 11 July 1860

Leaves of Grass Boston: Thayer and Eldridge. 1860–61. pp.456.

Walt Whitman is sane enough to do the poetry for an American newspaper or two: from whose columns these

supposed to answer this question: All I mark as my own, you shall offset it with your own, Else it were

Presently he dissects his own individuality a little more closely: Walt Whitman, an American, one of

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Of the few poets born in America, not one is distinctively American in his poetry; all are exotics, and

or making love like Diogenes coram populo—with his own lines for inscription:— "Walt Whitman, an American

of the unquenchable creed, namely, egotism," will not find it a very hard task to teach the young American

than they were, And that today is what it should be— and that America is, And that today and America

fellow Dutchman, Jan Matthys, along with other Anabaptists, briefly established a theocracy in the city

fellow Dutchman, Jan Matthys, along with other Anabaptists, briefly established a theocracy in the city

The Münster Rebellion ended when Protestant and Catholic armies took over the city; van Leiden was executed

Boston, Thayer & Eldridge. 1860 Washington, Philp & Solomons.

and the opening words of his critique on the latter were graduated to a point no finer than to say, "

If the Aristarch of "Scotch Reviewers" were still in the flesh, and felt called, in the spirit of the

It were no great wonder, after the success of Walt Whitman, if many persons who have never talked any

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