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Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 19 December 1888

  • Date: December 19, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

It is funny he did not claim to translate from the English but from the " American ."

Annotations Text:

Bucke is referring to the translations of Francis Viélé-Griffin, an American expatriate (Gay Wilson Allen

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 18 December 1888

  • Date: December 18, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

no doubt it is a total invention (not to use the word fraud wh' is perfectly proper)—my relations were

Annotations Text:

Russell Lowell, 1860. Sept 26."

where he published Whitman's "Bardic Symbols" [later "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life"] in April of 1860

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, 18 December 1888

  • Date: December 18, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

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

Katherine Johnston to Walt Whitman, 17 December 1888

  • Date: December 17, 1888
  • Creator(s): Katherine Johnston
Annotations Text:

Little Lord Fauntleroy was a children's novel by English-American novelist Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 16 December 1888

  • Date: December 16, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

does not tend to cheer one, raining all day and looks as though it might rain for a week—the roads were

hard and were getting nice and smooth now they will be in a devil of a mess again.

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, [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, 13 December 1888

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

Jas: Russell Lowell, 1860. Sept 26."

Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 13 December 1888

  • Date: December 13, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Russell Lowell, 1860. Sept 26."

Annotations Text:

Walsh (1854–1919), an American author and editor of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

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

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

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

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 12 December 1888

  • Date: December 12, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ernest Rhys
Text:

. & who were able to join with good effect in the discussion afterwards.

They had not seen it however, & were glad to come out to Lambeth Bridge where we stood till the fire

My American trip seems to have given me a new energy of assimilation too.

Never before were all the sights & sounds of London so full of suggestion; I think you must have unwittingly

Annotations Text:

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American-born writer and the author of such notable works as Daisy Miller

Joseph Pennell (1857–1926) was an American author and etcher.

He and his wife Elizabeth Robins were friends of Whitman in Camden.

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 9 December 1888

  • Date: December 9, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | William D. O'Connor
Text:

He and Rachel were the only vast actors I ever saw.

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, 9 December 1888

  • Date: December 9, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Walsh (1854–1919), an American author and editor of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 9 December 1888

  • Date: December 9, 1888
  • 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, 6 December 1888

  • Date: December 6, 1888
  • 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 Edward Carpenter, 6–7 December 1888

  • Date: December 6–7, 1888
  • 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

Susan (1833–1910) and George Stafford (1827–1892) were the parents of Whitman's young friend, Harry Stafford

Both were introduced to Whitman's writings by Edward Carpenter and they quickly became admirers of Whitman

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 5 December 1888

  • Date: December 5, 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

Walt Whitman to Frederick Oldach, 4 December 1888

  • Date: December 4, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

—I send 100 autograph sheets—(50 were sent before.) I send 100 labels—(50 were sent before.)

Justin Huntly McCarthy to Walt Whitman, 3 December 1888

  • Date: December 3, 1888
  • Creator(s): Justin Huntley McCarthy | Justin Huntly McCarthy
Text:

They were among the last things we ever read together but a few weeks ago in England when my life seemed

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 3 December 1888

  • Date: December 3, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard Maurice Bucke
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

Logan Pearsall Smith to Walt Whitman, 30 November 1888

  • Date: November 30, 1888
  • Creator(s): Logan Pearsall Smith
Text:

We were all there, including the baby, who had been especially taught to say "Uncle" for the occasion

Wilhelmina's Lehrjahre"—an imitation of Wilhelm Meister —& depicted the various experiences of a young American

At this the American girl gives out, says that she is willing to dress cheaply, but not unbecomingly,

Charles Wells Moulton to Walt Whitman, 28 November 1888

  • Date: November 28, 1888
  • Creator(s): Charles Wells Moulton
Annotations Text:

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, 28 November 1888

  • Date: November 28, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

ONTARIO London, Ont., 28 Nov 188 8 Evening Thank you very much for "Critic" and "American" received today

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 28 November 1888

  • Date: November 28, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
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, 27 November 1888

  • Date: November 27, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

plump sweet partridges —& half one for my breakfast—went well—I suppose you rec'd the Critic and American

Annotations Text:

The partridges were sent by William H. Blauvelt of Richfield Springs, New York.

James Scovel to Walt Whitman, 26 November 1888

  • Date: November 26, 1888
  • Creator(s): James Scovel
Text:

Walt: these were pleasant Hours. James Scovel to Walt Whitman, 26 November 1888

Annotations Text:

during the Civil War, and now recognized as having a significant influence on modern realism in American

performed in 1886 in the Madison Square Theatre, followed by numerous revivals in New York and other cities

His shad and champagne dinners for Whitman were something of a tradition.

Review of November Boughs

  • Date: 24 November 1888
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

Yet, as these latter are nearly all very brief, many of them not exceeding a dozen lines each, there

If it were spread out as often is done, the poetry alone would fill a thin volume, while another could

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 24 November 1888

  • Date: November 24, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown author
Annotations Text:

Deborah Stafford (1860–1945) was the sister of Harry Stafford. She married Joseph Browning.

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.

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 22 November 1888

  • Date: November 22, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard Maurice Bucke
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 Edward Dowden, 21 November 1888

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

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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 20 November 1888

  • Date: November 20, 1888
  • 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.

Joseph B. Gilder to Walt Whitman, 17 November 1888

  • Date: November 17, 1888
  • Creator(s): Joseph B. Gilder
Text:

Would that you were in, or nearer, New York, that your many friends here might see more of you!

Annotations Text:

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

Hamlin Garland to Walt Whitman, 16 November 1888

  • Date: November 16, 1888
  • Creator(s): Hamlin Garland
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

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 16 November 1888

  • Date: November 16, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

Ont., 16 Nov 188 8 Your card of 13th also newspaper and "Galaxy" article came to hand yesterday they were

Whitman's "November Boughs"

  • Date: 15 November 1888
  • Creator(s): Garland, Hamlin
Text:

be skipped," he must be studied by whomever would lay claim to the name of critic or student of American

Candidly and dispassionately reviewing all my intentions, I feel that they were creditable, and I accept

People in general are coming to think that his intentions were creditable, and no one who has really

being called a poet, but with those who raise the point (happily they are few now) that his intentions were

Whitman and gave him a long and important discussion, but referred to Whitman's attitude toward other American

Annotations Text:

Whitman and gave him a long and important discussion, but referred to Whitman's attitude toward other American

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 14 November 1888

  • Date: November 14, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 11 November 1888

  • Date: November 11, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

" " " " Homer & Shakespeare 3 Each born of country people & always stuck to these in preference to city

Annotations Text:

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

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

Hamlin Garland to Walt Whitman, 9 November 1888

  • Date: November 9, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Hamlin Garland
Text:

I wish you could have seen how deeply attentive they were and how moved by "Out of the Cradle" "To Think

Annotations Text:

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

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

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 9 November 1888

  • Date: November 9, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

suspected—they did not allow enough for that wonderfull physique of yours—I wish Pardee & O'Connor were

Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 9 November 1888

  • Date: November 9, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 6 November 1888

  • Date: November 6, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

All were heartily welcome and at once read with pleasure.

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

Wellesley Sayle to Walt Whitman, 3 November 1888

  • Date: November 3, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Wellesley Sayle
Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 1 November 1888

  • Date: November 1, 1888
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

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

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, 31 October 1888

  • Date: October 31, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden—though it does appear frequently in the last three volumes, which were

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

Her works include The Mill on the Floss (1860), Middlemarch (1871–1872), and Daniel Deronda (1876).

William H. Blauvelt to Walt Whitman, 31 October 1888

  • Date: October 31, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | William H. Blauvelt | Horace Traubel
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's "November Boughs"

  • Date: 30 October 1888
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

What we especially admire in him is his stout, tough Americanism, his faith in his country, its government

tribute to Lincoln (not so tender as the really rhythmic verses "My Captain"), are things for young Americans

Sidney H. Morse to Walt Whitman, 30 October 1888

  • Date: October 30, 1888
  • Creator(s): Sidney H. Morse | Sidney H.Morse
Text:

If the old broad brims of Richmond were not so close fisted, I should predict that they would buy copies

The first I gave last week Thursday to a company of some 30 young ladies—very bright they were, and responsive

The young ladies, ranging from 18 to 25 perhaps, were all alert, sympathetic, eager, enthusiastic.

worked the clay—modeling rough a head of Cleveland, & then, changing it to Harrison —a work not exceeding

Annotations Text:

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

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

Morse is likely referring to similar works, including likenesses of the poet Thomas Carlyle and the American

essayist and lecturer Ralph Waldo Emerson, that were purchased by the woman who also hired him to provide

Blaine (1830–1893) was an American statesman and Republican politician.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 28 October 1888

  • Date: October 28, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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 on "Leaves of Grass"

  • Date: 27 October 1888
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

It is rather the poet's review in his old age of what he conceives were his intentions in his manhood's

breath of life to my whole scheme that the bulk of the pieces might as well have been left unwritten were

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 27 October 1888

  • Date: October 27, 1888
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
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

Füssli] (1741–1825) was a Swiss painter who lived most of his life in England and whose many sketches were

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 26 October 1888

  • Date: October 26, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

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

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, 26 October 1888

  • Date: October 26, 1888
  • 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

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