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John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 28 March 1889

  • Date: March 28, 1889
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

Walked down to City hall & was astonished to see the Times building towering up & quite overshadowing

Annotations Text:

George Kennan (1845–1923) was an American explorer who travelled throughout Siberia and published enthographical

Edmund Clarence Stedman to Walt Whitman, 27 March 1889

  • Date: March 27, 1889
  • Creator(s): Edmund Clarence Stedman
Text:

"A Library of American Literature." Office of Charles L. Webster & Co., Publishers.

Editors: Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson. 3 East 14th Street, New York City, March 27th

An American, 2. A book-lover, 3.

To-day, then, I forward to you by express the first seven volumes of the "Library of American Literature

In short, I send you an American "cosmorama" for your own room: hoping it may lighten some of the hours

Annotations Text:

The letterhead of pages 1, 5, and 9 of Stedman's letter is printed: "A Library of American Literature

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

Hooks, "Ellen MacKay Hutchinson ([1851]–1933)," Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 30:2 (2013

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

Ada H. Spaulding to Walt Whitman, 27 March 1889

  • Date: March 27, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ada H. Spaulding
Text:

Dear Friend You were so good as to call yourself so, in my book,—that I value more than you guess,—and

If I were arranging flowers for your room, I should have masses of one kind, if I could.

delicate miracles, quite a variety of them, might enable you to fancy you had left your room, and were

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 27 March 1889

  • Date: March 27, 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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 27 March [188]9

  • Date: March 27, [188]9
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

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

For more information about McKay, see Joel Myerson, "McKay, David (1860–1918)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 26 March 1889

  • Date: March 26, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

There is also Camden, N.J. postmark, but only the city and the date of "MAR 27" are legible.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 26 March 1889

  • Date: March 26, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

For more information about McKay, see Joel Myerson, "McKay, David (1860–1918)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 26 March [188]9

  • Date: March 26, [188]9
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

Smith, his wife Hannah, and their children were all friends and supporters of Whitman.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 25 March 1889

  • Date: March 25, 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 Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 24 March 1889

  • Date: March 24, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey March 24 '89 Thanks for the money & order wh' were duly rec'd—I have

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 24 March 1889

  • Date: March 24, 1889
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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

In the essay, "Carlyle from American Points of View," Whitman explains that, when it comes to "the impalpable

in a catalog of "the foremost actors and events from 1750 to 1830 both in Europe and America [that] were

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 24 March 1889

  • Date: March 24, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 23 March [188]9

  • Date: March 23, [188]9
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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 William Sloane Kennedy, 22 March 1889

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

home in Canada & resumes his work—the meter project will yet be launched, & go—the last Vol. 4th American

Annotations Text:

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 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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 22 March [188]9

  • Date: March 22, [188]9
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

Bucke's own accounts of his wanderings were published as "Twenty-Five Years Ago," Overland Monthly, 1

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 article contained ten paragraphs, and according to Whitman paragraphs 7–8 were by Bucke (Floyd Stovall

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 22 March 1889

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

American Supplement to Enc: Brit: (p. 772) has a statistical rather friendly notice abt me &c —Love—

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

Ellen M. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 21 March 1889

  • Date: March 21, 1889
  • Creator(s): Ellen M. O'Connor
Annotations Text:

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, 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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 21 March [188]9

  • Date: March 21, [188]9
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

Ont.,] 21 March [188]9 I was very glad to get (this morning) your card of 19th and to hear that you were

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

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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 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

Isaac Markens to Walt Whitman, 20 March 1889

  • Date: March 20, 1889
  • Creator(s): Isaac Markens
Annotations Text:

The Mail and Express was the publisher of the Evening Mail, a New York City daily newspaper that traced

Walt Whitman to Arthur Newton Brown, 20 March 1889

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

of 18th (rec'd—thanks) whether you request the new big 900 vol. complete poems & prose works —If I were

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 20 March [188]9

  • Date: March 20, [188]9
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

immediate future as I had hoped but I trust a few months will make this all right—all the folk here were

greatly interested to hear from me all about you and they were much pleased that I could give so good

Annotations Text:

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

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 William D. O'Connor, 20 March 1889

  • Date: March 20, 1889
  • 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 William Sloane Kennedy, 20 March 1889

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

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

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

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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 19 March 1889

  • Date: March 19, 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

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.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 18 March 1889

  • Date: March 18, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

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

Francis Howard Williams to Walt Whitman, 18 March 1889

  • Date: March 18, 1889
  • Creator(s): Frank H. Williams | Francis Howard Williams
Text:

better comprehension of man and of the democratic idea, it would (I think) be a misfortune if you were

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 17 March 1889

  • Date: March 17, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

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 S. Walsh to Walt Whitman, 17 March 1889

  • Date: March 17, 1889
  • Creator(s): William S. Walsh
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman's Book

  • Date: 16 March 1889
  • Creator(s): Payne, W. M.
Text:

say that "November Boughs" (Philadelphia: David McKay) is an important permanent contribution to American

Take, for example, this epigram on "The Bravest Soldiers:" "Brave, brave were the soldiers (high-named

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

For more information about McKay, see Joel Myerson, " McKay, David (1860–1918) Walt Whitman's Book

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

Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998).; David McKay (1860–1918) took over Philadelphia-based

For more information about McKay, see Joel Myerson, "McKay, David (1860–1918)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 14 March 1889

  • Date: March 14, 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 William D. O'Connor, 13 March 1889

  • Date: March 13, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

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

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 12 March 1889

  • Date: March 12, 1889
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

Van Ness and American Hotels L.S. DREW H.N. CLARK MANAGERS B urlington V ermont.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 12 March 1889

  • Date: March 12, 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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 11 March 1889

  • Date: March 11, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 8 March 1889

  • Date: March 8, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 7 March 1889

  • Date: March 7, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to John H. Johnston and Alma Calder Johnston, 7 March 1889

  • Date: March 7, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 6 March 1889

  • Date: March 6, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

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

Huntington Smith to Walt Whitman, 5 March 1889

  • Date: March 5, 1889
  • Creator(s): Huntington Smith
Text:

65 Pleasant St., Dorchester, Mass., Mar. 5/89 Dear Sir, I'm preparing a volume of selections from American

Annotations Text:

Smith is referring to A Century of American Literature, Benjamin Franklin to James Russel Lowell; selections

," "The Singer in the Prison," and "For You, O Democracy" (Huntington Smith, ed., A Century of American

Joseph Edgar Chamberlin to Walt Whitman, 5 March 1889

  • Date: March 5, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Joseph Edgar Chamberlin
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.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 5 March 1889

  • Date: March 5, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

if any thing can justify my revolutionary attempts & utterances it is such ensemble —like a great city

Annotations Text:

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

Gleeson White to Walt Whitman, 4 March 1889

  • Date: March 4, 1889
  • Creator(s): Gleeson White
Text:

Your poems with Omar Khayyaim Khayyam were the strong tonic's that kept energy for the enervating work

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 4 March 1889

  • Date: March 4, 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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 3 March 1889

  • Date: March 3, 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

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

November Boughs

  • Date: 2 March 1889
  • Creator(s): Walsh, William S.
Text:

Whitman says, in a manner which, if irony were not a mode rather foreign to him, we should consider ironical

We should be very much surprised if they were not. William O'Connor and Dr.

Glance o'er Travel'd Roads" amounts to an acknowledgment by Walt Whitman himself, not that his critics were

the rising and sinking waves—over the myriad fields and the prairies wide: Over the dense-packed cities

so—was indeed not in the original "Leaves of Grass," as it appeared more than thirty years ago, nor were

Charles L. Heyde to Walt Whitman, 2 March 1889

  • Date: March 2, 1889
  • Creator(s): Charles L. Heyde
Text:

Van Ness and American Hotels L.S. DREW H.N. CLARK MANAGERS B urlington V ermont.

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