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of a prose piece on the back that discusses a published catalogue of four to five thousand known American

spoke at length concerning his poetry, and in the course of his address repeated extracts, among which were

The present you received, was not from these gentlemen, but from the readers of the , who were your friends

Gerstenberg's names were given to us, and by me to you, in strict confidence.

gift again, please describe it as that of the paper and not of these individuals, whose initials only were

She is an American, & my best friend— Walt Whitman to Ernest Rhys, 2 February 1887

Jules Laforgue (1860–1887) was a French free-verse poet born in Uruguay.

"Then there were none of the pecuniary results Brisbane speaks of?"

During the late 1850s and throughout the 1860s, Abby and Helen were friends with Whitman and his mother

Helen's reminiscences of Whitman were included in Richard Maurice Bucke's 1883 biography of Whitman.

It was as well to let them go, seems that they were leading to certain friendly tributes, although they

consciously, & the movement then of the waves, & the hurrying, superb clouds above, formed a symphony, as it 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

Ed was here an hour or so last evening, & we were glad to have him.

He is a charming fellow, very clever and full of American pluck.

so busy that one seldom gets a chance of seeing him in the seething side of affairs in this great city

It is always a temptation to chat with thee—I only wish I were near enough to do it really .

Dear Sir: I am endeavoring to procure a collection of autographs of distinguished Americans , and as

.— We have been informed that when you were younger and less famous than now, you were in New Orleans

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

English edition of Specimen Days; May 6, an excerpt from a private correspondent about gifts of Americans

, and 11, comment, editorial and personal, on Swinburne's article; September 6, a defense of the American

In addition, letters from Walt Whitman were reproduced on January 25 and August 30 (see the letter from

The poems were published first in Lippincott's Magazine, November, 1887. November Boughs

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

These two photos are the ones Whitman felt were salvageable from the Cox session: "they are not all of

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

These two photos are the ones Whitman felt were salvageable from the Cox session: "they are not all of

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Kinder Karr, in "A Friendship and a Photograph: Sophia Williams, Talcott Williams, and Walt Whitman" (American

Both were frequent visitors to Whitman’s Mickle Street home in Camden in the 1880s.

They were friends of Thomas Eakins, who painted both their portraits.

Whitman recalls that "six or seven" photos were made during the session, but the poet's friend Jeannette

Gilder, an observer of the session, said there were many more than that: "He must have had twenty pictures

Though I do not think (if the Queen herself were to come here) any people would go now.'

There were a number of youths, boys and girls who had read a good deal, but had had little chance of

'Depend upon it the Greek sculptors were right.

'Since you were last here, Herbert, I have read Bulwer's What will He Do with It .' Do you like it?

spent in roving, were the best, the most important of our life."

Perhaps two of these were the (unnamed) books O'Connor sent to Whitman on December 21.

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

"American Poets," in the October number of the British Quarterly Review.

But the universal greed for gain; which Americans to-day seek, to the exclusion of everything Morally

A cable dispatch printed yesterday in an evening paper announced that Walt Whitman, the American poet

"If we were not in the midst of the holiday trade," he said, "I would jump on the next train for Philadelphia

An autograph letter of Walt's was sold in this city last Spring for $80 to my knowledge."

reporter regarding the paragraph which appeared in this morning's papers, stating that subscriptions were

Two handsome cats were purring contentedly about the ankles of the benign old man, and did not seem to

cablegram containing a reference to his needy condition and the circular alleged to be circulating England were

The plates of the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, printed by Thayer & Eldridge, were sold to Richard

originally wrote Whitman on September 29, 1879, informing him that he possessed the plates to the 1860

It is remarkable and good, though I don't always see as he does, and wish he were more comprehensive.

What is most significant, however, is the article called "American Poets" in the October number of the

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.

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

had already appeared in The Critic on December 16, 1882, and Whitman republished it in the North American

Julian Hawthorne (1846–1934) was the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne and an American critic and journalist

mentioned the possibility of a pension to Whitman as early as January 7, 1885: "If this humbug government were

It is in the Old Colony, the part of the country where your first American ancestors lived.

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

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

Arlo Bates (1850–1918) was an American author of several novels, poetry collections, and essays on literary

Judge was placed in charge of the Society's North American activities when co-founders Helena Petrovna

Among those who contributed were Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson.

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

on the works of Keats and Shelley, and, starting in 1887, a conspirator in literary forgeries that were

Walt Whitman Camden, New Jersey Walt Whitman to the Editor of The North American Review, ?

Jotted Down at the Time" appeared in the January 1887 issue of The North American Review, this note was

SUBDIVIDER AND OWNER OF CITY & SUBURBAN PROPERTY. S. E. COR. DEARBORN & RANDOLPH STS.

Your patriotic & noble lines are most worthy the attention of the American people.

sunshine, & I rambled off once right round by Snowdon to Carnarvon, where the remnant of the Cymric races were

reading it & looking at relative passages in "Specimen Days" & "Leaves of Grass," the thought of the American

For my own sake, as well as yours, I wish it 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

One sentence, "In nothing is there more evolution than in the American mind ," I have also used in company

It helped to decide the title, which is: The Evolution of American Thought : an outline study of the

leading phases of American Literature etc.

Garland's "The Evolution of American Thought" was never published; the manuscript of the book does contain

On October 21 Mary Costelloe had informed the poet that she and her husband were about to go as delegates

The British Quarterly Review for October contained an article on "American Poets" in which Whitman, according

within the last half dozen days we have seen (and felt badly about) squibs in the papers saying you were

said you did not feel quite as well as usual—but that you had been out on a long drive and that you were

Whitman published his American Institute Poem, After All, Not to Create Only, with Roberts Brothers,

Julian Hawthorne (1846–1934) was the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne and an American critic and journalist

If he were more energetic he could rise to be one of the Liberal Leaders, but he has been cursed with

Miss Moore was speaking to me of your poetry yesterday as she and I were walking through the galleries

entry for April 18, 1864, the Count referred to Whitman as among "the most original and genuine American

LeRoy Fischer, Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 36 (1949–1950): 415–434, and the Dictionary of American

Charles Eames was a prominent maritime attorney in Washington, D.C., in the 1860s, and his wife was a

For my own sake, as well as yours, I wish it were!"