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America, and along the shores of the great lakes, and all over the prairies; I will make inseparable cities

time; privileged to evoke, in a country hitherto still asking for its poet, a fresh, athletic, and American

the English language is spoken—that is to say, in the four corners of the earth; and in his own American

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

The essay appeared in The North American Review in November 1886.

, '88 ALL LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS RELATING TO EDITORIAL BUSINESS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED "EDITOR NORTH AMERICAN

REVIEW, NEW YORK CITY."

THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, 30 LAFAYETTE PLACE. ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

NEW YORK CITY, Oct. 5th 1886. Walt Whitman, Esq., Camden, N.J.

Just wait a few days, however, and I will read it and see if it will not do for the North American.

Charles Allen Thorndike Rice (1851–1889) was a journalist and edited and published the North American

Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time (1888) was published by The North American

rejected Whitman's "Some War Memoranda," Whitman submitted it to Redpath, and it appeared in the North American

"Robert Buns as Poet and Person" appeared in the North American Review in November 1886.

Henry George (1839–1897) was an American writer and political economist whose writings inspired a variety

giving out—I enclose one of Herbert's last letters —(I had written to him over a month ago, when you were

B —but I am glad you refused the letters for publication—They were strictly private Walt Whitman Don't

Two "pot-boilers" were rejected: Baldwin's Monthly declined "Lafayette in Brooklyn," which Whitman sent

Whitman that Rice's syndicate "is dissolved," but that possibly he might put the piece into The North American

Logan and Alys were Mary's siblings.

Their parents, Robert Pearsall Smith and Hannah Whitall Smith, were strong supporters of Whitman.

This letter is addressed: Joseph B Gilder | Critic office 20 Astor | Place | New York City.

Jersey Aug. 24 p m Charles Eldridge was here yesterday noon—a pleasant 3 hour visit—went to Atlantic City

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

Walt Whitman Some of her most beautiful, characteristic, interesting and copious letters were written

to her friend Walt Whitman the American poet.

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

Moncure Conway (1832–1907) was a Unitarian minister who lived in England from the 1860s until 1885, where

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

With additions he republished it as "Robert Burns as Poet and Person" in The North American Review, 143

With additions he republished it as "Robert Burns as Poet and Person" in The North American Review, 143

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

This letter is addressed: Editor | Century Magazine | Union Square | New York City | attention of | C

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

The essay appeared in The North American Review in November 1886.

This letter is addressed: Editors | Critic | weekly paper | 20 Astor Place | New York City.

July 19 requesting permission to include "Song of the Redwood-Tree" in Half-Hours with the Best American

I leave the city to day for 2 or 3 months (Marlton N.J. Your friend Mr.

Hunter two or three times daily for months—when both in the city—and I spent last evening with him and

Other poems were also read and I think Mr.

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

This letter is addressed: Editor | Century Magazine | Union Square | New York City.

I am collecting Photos of distinguished Americans & would be glad to get one of yours, if it can be got

On first acquaintance, or perhaps even on second and third acquaintance, the unprepossessing city of

Camden on the banks of the Delaware,—a city which serves as an over the river suburb of cheap homes for

"They cost me their weight when they were printed."

"They were just setting up in business and they were very anxious to get the work," he continued.

Many of them were returned to me with insulting letters."

Whitman stayed at the "Minerva House" in Sea Isle City, N.

On the attempted Suppression of "an American, one of the Roughs, a Kosmos," and "Yawped over the roofs

An attempt to suppress an attorney were better, Who thinks the free flight of the soul to fetter.

This postal card is addressed: Albert Johnston | Jeweler | 150 Bowery cor: Broome | New York City.

You were partially right in thinking me connected with a large printing establishment.

Whitman sent the article to Redpath, of The North American Review, on June 29 (Whitman's Commonplace

Mississippi I was ten days in Chicago, the N.Y. of the west, & destined to be an enormous city.

Ursula and John were married on September 12, 1857.

He had met Whitman and Burroughs in the capital in the 1860s.

Burroughs means "Hathorn Spring water"; the Hathorn springs were some of the numerous mineral springs

He is used to the city, & to life & people—is in his 18th year—has the first Knack of Literature—& is

On July 12, 1874, he wrote for the first time to Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground

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

At a sale of Autographs & Books a few days ago the following prices were obtained.

"Autograph letter, Whitman, Walt, Poet," $80.00 Leaves of Grass 1st Edition 10.00 Which prices were the

At a sale of Autographs, & Books a few days ago the following prices were obtained, "Autograph letter

, Whitman, Walt, Poet," $80.00 Leaves of Grass 1 st Edition 18.00 Which prices were the highest paid

England J Addington Symonds, Davos Platz, Graubünden Switzerland E C Stedman 45 E 30th St New York City

This letter is addressed: Dr Carl Knortz | 540 East 155th Street | New York City.

The profits on 'Leaves of Grass' were only $20 for the same time.

When I read my poem on Lincoln in Philadelphia the other day, the profits were $700.

Poetry is a font of type, to be set up again consistently with American democratic institutions."

"How were these changes made?" "Structures grew and were made by use and lost by disuse.

Such study shows clearly how structures developed or were lost.

Your postal cards were better than all the letters in the world.

On July 12, 1874, he wrote for the first time to Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground

Among the donors were Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Addington Symonds, George Saintsbury,

Bessie (d. 1919) and Isabella (1855–1924) Ford were sisters who lived together in Leeds, were friends

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

Americans are apt to forget their great men, unless their work in this world, is kept before their minds

When I next visit the city, I shall certainly arrange to have a talk with you, on certain points upon

" 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

See The American-German Review 13 (December 1946), 27–30.

Perhaps Lilian Whiting (1859–1942), an American writer and journalist.

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

SALEM, a manufacturing city of 6000 population, is an Excellent Show Town, surrounded by a good country

He has not omitted, as some editors might have done, In a City Dead House and The Flight of the Eagles

Bessie (d. 1919) and Isabella (1855–1924) Ford were sisters who lived together in Leeds.

They were friends and disciples (as well as cousins) of Carpenter, and active social reformers, working

C.W.E. and I were intensely amused at your "amiable clerk with a pen behind his ear," as applied to Stedman's

This gives points to Herod, and is worse than the slaughter of the innocents, because they were Jew babies

Eldridge (1837–1903) was, with William Wilde Thayer, the Boston publisher of Whitman's 1860 edition of

Gay Wilson Allen, Ed Folsom (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1990), 268–281.

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

Perhaps a reference to Henry Jacob Bigelow (1818–1890), an American surgeon, professor at Harvard and

If my accumulation of shoes—my cast-off shoes—like wine and Old Daubs were increased in value by cobwebs