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This draft letter is on the back of an envelope from The North American Review postmarked NEW YORK |

On June 30 Redpath, at this time managing editor of The North American Review, asked Whitman to send

Redpath paid $50 for "Slang in America" on October 20, which appeared in The North American Review in

John Brown (Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860), a correspondent for the New York Tribune during the war

He met Whitman in Boston in 1860, and he remained an enthusiastic admirer; see Horace Traubel, With Walt

He concluded his first letter to Whitman on June 25, 1860: "I love you, Walt!

Redpath became managing editor of The North American Review in 1886. See also Charles F.

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

see notes July 29 1888 | also Aug 1 NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. (EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.)

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

was on the mend—I still hold my own & consider myself recuperating—I hope you will meet my young American

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.

In American currency the gift amounted to $239.83 (Whitman's Commonplace Book).

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

poems that comprised the "Fancies at Navesink" cluster when it appeared in the Nineteenth Century were

For this reason they inserted a paragraph in The Athenaeum on July 11 soliciting funds, but were disturbed

was greater on the street level than it has been since 1838—it was 102 in the shade at my office We were

This letter is addressed: John H Johnston | Jeweler | 150 Bowery Cor: Broome | New York City.

shrubbery all tell to me the same tale A tale of peacefulness and isolation from the busy, busy, striving Cities

high and vapory blue a lone Mountain to whose heights I aspire to climb and on its top to place an American

I see many friends and many who were friends of my Father and Mother.

here and to many I am a "regular suprise party" Hearing them talk of long ago makes me feel as if I were

A big tornado passed, or crashed over the city, tearing a large luxuriant tree that grew by the gate,

How it razed and thrashed the slate roof; several houses were unroofed: the worst gale I ever saw: Han

The poet's sleeves were rolled above the elbows, exposing a pair of arms white as a woman's, but symmetrical

GRANT, A TYPICAL AMERICAN.

"Washington and all those noble early Virginians were, strictly speaking, English gentlemen of the royal

era of Hampden, Pym and Milton, and such it was best that they were for their day and purposes.

, irrefragable proof of radical Democratic institutions—that it is possible for any good average American

We sent him thy letter from Lord Mount Temple's, where we were staying.

We were walking in the old-fashioned flower garden when we met him, and almost the first thing he said

As we were going away, he told me to give thee his love.

It has a look of being lived in, and all the arrangements were "casual," as English people say.

Hats and walking-sticks were lying about in chairs and dogs raced in and out at their pleasure.

This letter is addressed: J H Johnston | Jeweler | 150 Bowery | Cor: Broome | New York City.

I am rather hankering after a studio right down in the city amongst men: From a business point of view

subscription list is being formed in England with a view to presenting a free-will offering to the American

almost or quite strangers to us, asking questions on this subject; and we hoped & thought that if this were

Hence the paragraph was put into the Athenaeum which I send with this, and we were proceeding to organize

subscription list is being formed in England with a view to presenting a free-will offering to the American

These libations, ecstatic life-pourings as it were of precious wine or rose - water on vast desert sands

or great polluted river—taking chances for returns or no returns —what were they (or are they) but the

NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. (EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT.) (DICTATED TO STENOGRAPHER.)

Charles Allen Thorndike Rice (1851–1889) purchased The North American Review in 1876.

THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, New York. Editorial Department.

A number of important American newspapers, among which may be mentioned such as the New York Tribune

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

On May 22 Rhys informed the poet that about 8,000 copies of the edition were sold, and that the publisher

The furniture was of the plainest old-fashioned type; there were the old wooden rocking chairs, with

Piles of papers and magazines were stacked in chairs, on the floors, and several oil paintings were pendant

"My opinion of other American poets?

For a long period I placed Emerson at the head of American poetic literature, but of late I consider

Cleveland seems to me like a huge wall, great on his impedimenta, as it were.

you go you must see W m William Bell Scott, the painter and poet, the first (unless, Dante Rossetti were

because my visit will be on business I believe you have never met Mr Rice, proprietor of the North American

He has set about to secure the Reminiscences of all the eminent Americans who came into personal relations

Some of these papers he may publish in the North American Review, & others in the North American Review

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

have been olive-colored when put on in the silurian age, and the window sills, bordered with white, were

The furniture was of the plainest old-fashioned type; there were the old wooden rocking-chairs, with

Piles of papers and magazines were stacked in chairs, on the floors and stands.

"My opinion of other American poets?

Cleveland seems to me like a huge wall, great on his impediments, as it were.

This letter is addressed: J H Johnston | Jeweler | 150 Bowery | New York City.

Camden New Jersey U S A June 20 1885 Dear old friend If convenience helps I want to present two American

The car jogs up Market street, the principal thoroughfare of the city.

The bright energy which marks the growing Western city is absent.

Camden is monotonous and for a city of its age and opportunities unlovely.

The walls were adorned with a number of portraits, engravings, and photographs.

HIS VIEWS OF AMERICAN BARDS. "The old poets are dropping off," said Mr.

The handsome third (1860-61) Boston edition, published by Thayer & Eldridge, commenced well and paid

Whitman's darkest times were from 1873 to 1876.

Whitman had made a good fight, but the fates were adverse.

Lists of purchasers of the $10 edition were sent over to Whitman, accompanied by the money.

Among the names were those of G. H. Lewes, Vernon and Godfrey Lushington, Dante G. and William M.

Whitman in the New York Sonntagsblatt of November 1, 1868, mentioned Freiligrath's admiration for the American

poets, however conservative they may be, tend to the same democratic humanitarianism as our great Americans

Walt Whitman Were the artist to visit Philadelphia I would sit to him here in my own room—good place

public library (I think at Minneapolis and Cincinnati) a volume of biography, it seems to me now there were

If you do not like to make the whole distance alone, I will meet you in Jersey City.

Ursula and John were married on September 12, 1857.

Emory Holloway (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1921), 1:234–235.

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

do—I have had no more of the Round Table series since I sent the last to you —it is time some more were

Whitman's poems "The Pallid Wreath" (January 10, 1891) and "To The Year 1889" (January 5, 1889) were

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

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), better know by his pen name, Mark Twain, was an American humorist

York—small quarto 9 by 12 inches, 95 pages—in the type called "English"—was not stereotyped—800 copies were

done—the author himself setting some of the type. 2 d ed'n, edition 16 mo was in 1856; 3 . 12 mo. 1860

said the "Good Grey Poet" to a North American reporter.

"If it were not for the new President I don't know what the papers would do for something to talk about

Walt was a newspaper man when most of the newspaper men of the present day were boys, and he preserves

The Lay family were renting Whitman's Camden home when he bought it, and they stayed there for a month

Philip Henry Bagenal (1850–1927) was an Anglo-Irish author, known mostly for his The American Irish and

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

Kelly (1856–1916) was a New England doctor of children's diseases as well as an Irish-American activist

This letter is addressed: Mrs: Alma Johnston | 305 East 17th Street | New York City.

According to John Brooks Wheeler, Memoirs of a Small-Town Surgeon (Garden City, New York: Garden City

Publishing Company, 1936), 284–289, Thayer performed most of the operations in Burlington during the 1860s

Perhaps you will have seen in the American papers that Sidney Thomas, the cousin with whom Percy was

For Whitman's writings on Carlyle, see "Death of Thomas Carlyle" and "Carlyle from American Points of

water—so large a portion of the people let the water run to prevent freezing of the pipes—and our city—being

From January 8 to 13, 1884, the city suffered a five-day water shortage because of open faucets.

Standpipe No. 2, the "Red Tower" at Blair and Bissell streets, was authorized by the city council on

) No lurid fame exceptional, nor monstrous intellect, nor conquest's domination;) Through teeming cities

1884, when George and Louisa moved to a farm outside of Camden and Whitman decided to stay in the city