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

The Booths were an illustrious nineteenth-century English American acting family.

Among the best-known Booths were actor Junius Brutus Booth (1796–1852) and his actor-sons Edwin Thomas

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

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

Stoddart's Encyclopaedia America, established Stoddart's Review in 1880, which was merged with The 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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

On October 23, 1891, the American journalist and diplomat John Russell Young (1840–1899) invited Whitman

Both roles were played by the nineteenth-century actor Joseph Jefferson.

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

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

Aldrich (1836–1907) was associated with Henry Clapp's Saturday Press from 1858 until its final number in 1860

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.

People in Boston were over Xmas.

Why the glorious mystic & genius wd have cut his throat if he had known what idiots people were to be

The Adams Express Company was founded in 1854 in New York City and began operations by delivering parcels

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

Somebody ought to write a scholarly-picturesque thorough & exhaustive history of the Dutch-Americans.

I wish I were rich enough.

City & L. Island, & study the Dutch people at first hand.

(over the left)) a little lately—editorials on "Dynamite Weather," and "A Big American Flag" (incident

Kennedy is referring to works related to James Russell Lowell (1819–1891), an American critic, poet,

O'Connor's stories with a preface by Whitman were published in Three Tales: The Ghost, The Brazen Android

Office— Frid Dear Walt I did not realize that you were so ill.

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

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

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

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

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

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

'Lel' the Husband runs a city school of design up there near Girard College, or nearer the synagogue

Sometimes called the "father of philanthropy," Girard was one of the wealthiest men in American history

Bonheur was then romantically involved with American painter Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856–1942).

Meissonier intended to produce a five-painting cycle depicting the career of Napoleon, only two of which were

Jas: Russell Lowell, 1860. Sept 26."

Rapple, "James Russell Lowell", American Travel Writers, 1850–1915 [Detroit: Gale, 1998], 247–254).

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

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

" 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

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.

For when we were in college together in Cambridge Mass.

They were a band of earnest liberal fellows (Norman & I the best read of 'em) & I saw that they did not

Stead (1849–1912); see American Literature, XXXIII (1961), 68–69, and the letter from Whitman to William

Graham Sumner (1840–1910) was a professor of social sciences at Yale who also authored books on American

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

Mrs K. goes in to the city every day, so we shd have the day to ourselves, I also go in nearly every

Hale wrote an appreciative review of yr first book in '56 or '60, also in the North American, & he told

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.

See Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995

Kennedy is referring to the five–volume Modern Painters (1843–1860), written by the Victorian art critic

Yet there were grim and repellant traits in Walt Whitman.

Stedman and his family were seated in the opposite box. Others present were Samuel L. Clemens, H.

His attitude and that of Lincoln were identical.

In the war "my sympathies were aroused to their utmost pitch, and I found that mine were equaled by the

Afterwards a few visitors were admitted to see him.

For more on the paper and the many poems by Whitman that were published in it, see Susan Belasco, "The

Now, you meet the rich idlers from Boston, New York, Chicago and other cities, during their gorgeous

You won't detect pedant or such about him, but a splendid example of a cultivated American, who knows

the best that other lands and times have to offer, but who is still American.

particularly difficult for those who belonged to the social circle in which he and Wendell Phillips were

course you are familiar with Lowell's "Commemoration Ode" —a poem, it seems to me—in which the best Americanism

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) was an American critic, poet and editor of The Atlantic.

His shoulders were broad, and neither age nor infirmity had broken down the original robustness of his

The broad brim of his soft, gray, felt hat shaded his eyes so that you were not sure whether they were

His eyes were dimmer now, but his heart kept its old zest.

Walt had, in fact, read most of the American poets who were his contemporaries.

The Greeks howled when they were hurt and bawled with rage when they were angry.

Nort h American Review. East Fourteenth Street, New York.

Rideing, the assistant editor of the North American Review, had written to Whitman and requested that

the poet write an article of about "4000 words" on "Recent aspects of American literature" for "the

June 26 188 3 Dear Sir, I am collecting material for an article upon the late Sidney Lanier, a true American

and it includes transcriptions (whole text and individual poems) and facsimiles of the six major American

Price's edited collection, Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews , along with several reviews that were

Cohen of Duke University, will be fully searchable and will include facsimiles of the ephemera that were

Nebraska, is developing a section that includes about fifty interviews with Whitman, most of which were

Iowa City: Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, 2005. Folsom, Ed. and Kenneth M. Price. .

Pennsylvania, where both the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were

I took a friend with me from Jersey City (T.C.

Brown has gone to City point to get the Body. he took the boat for city point last Wednesday at 3 oclock

Jersey City.

And, to say the truth, we were rather tiredof itbefore itwas over, and were glad enough to change from

Itwas only the other day that we were saying, when he and I were met with other friends, that italmost

The couple were people I knew well, who did second famously, but were conditionally pre-engaged when

'Depend upon itthe Greek sculptors were right. * Since you were last here, Herbert, I have read Bulwer's

You were not made for failure, you were made for victory forward with joyful : go a confidence in that

Whitman, The receipt of your letter of 3 Decr. this morning wd. would have made me feel miserable were

I have always felt—& did so markedly while our own recent Reform discussions were going on—one main truth

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

Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907) was an American abolitionist, minister, and frequent correspondent

My prefatory matter, & something like a third (I suppose) of the poems, were in print before your letter

letter; & contains moreover a longish passage affirming that, if such freedom of speech as you adopt were

title–page wh. you propose wd. of course be adopted by me with thanks & without a moment's debate, were

Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907) was an American abolitionist, minister, and frequent correspondent

Copies of the volume were withdrawn so that the sequel could be added.

several poems, adding eighteen new poems to those that appeared in Drum-Taps, and all of these poems were

Later, these poems were folded into Leaves of Grass, and by the time the final arrangement of Leaves

I know I am glad that your selections were put into my hands first, so that I was lifted up by them to

in some tangible shape: & I c.d could at this moment tell you of at least 3 several plans wh. which were

, & you vouch for as less strong than the facts, proves that some more cheerful preceding accounts were

Krieg, chapter 8, "Dublin," Walt Whitman and the Irish (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000), 190

It happens that I have lately been compiling a of selections from American Poets, & I had had to use

—I don't well know when my American Selection will be out: my work on it is done, & the rest depends

Octr., & is to dine with us tomorrow: I like his frank manly aspect & tone, & need not say that you were

It is postmarked: LONDON-W | 7 | OC 9 | 71; NEW YORK CITY | OCT | 22 | PAID; CARRIER | OCT | 23 | 8AM

The volume of American poems to which he refers was to be the seventeenth volume in the series and was

Gary Schmidgall, The Iowa Whitman Series (Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2001), 29.

was co pied into some (I dare say numerous) English papers; & one Editor wrote asking what was the American

He may have told you—& indeed it cannot have needed telling—that you were a very principal subject of

But certainly it does seem that in degree & duration the obduracy of Americans agst. against your work

It seems as if she were even less capable than others of appreciating great work vital with the very

My vol. volume of Selections from American Poets doesn't seem likely to be published yet awhile.

An aspiring physician, Beatrice took the needed preparatory classes but was barred (as were all women

About half of the poems from the 1867 American edition of Leaves of Grass were removed for the British

The volume of American poems to which he refers was to be the seventeenth volume in the series and was

Were it not that I find the uncertainty about this most embarrassing, & the presumable chance of enlisting

Memoranda During the War (1875) chronicles Whitman's time as a hospital volunteer during the American

The Commune governed the city from March 18 to May 28, 1871, at which time the French army retook the

city and prosecuted those who had supported the Commune.

"Nelly" O'Connor (1830–1913), who, with Charles Eldridge and later John Burroughs, were to be his close

My wife received lately a letter from M G. to serve as an introduction for an American lady, M Edwards

Whitman that the writer is one of his ardent admirers, & that it was a rich treat to read in your American

I can but repeat my delight in this prospect, were it to be realized, & my wife's hope & my own that

See Catherine Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry 1860–1879: an Annotated Bibliography (London: Mansell, 2000

If you were blessed with an unsurpassably good mother, I can with truth say the same of myself.

Whitman's article "The American War" appeared in the London Examiner on March 18, 1876.

Chas Charles Aldrich, of Webster City, Iowa: he told us of his interview with you shortly before he crossed

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