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1871) did an early oil painting of Walt Whitman, the engraving of which was the frontispiece for the 1860

Notes on Walt Whitman, As Poet and Person (New York: American News, 1867).

I tried several magazines, but they were already made up for their May numbers.

About half of the poems from the 1867 American edition of Leaves of Grass were removed for the British

had induced him to recommend that said pardon be granted, upon payment of all costs of prosecution, were

Laughlin and wife, covering the site selected for a Brand Mint at Dalles City, Oregon, which, with other

which he observed: "If we except 'Leaves of Grass' and Emerson's works, there is little as yet in American

of the 15th instant complaining that a person named Rice, resident or doing business in Washington City

Attorney General for your services, and by a letter from this office of the 3d September 1867, you were

Counsellor at Law, Box 217, New York City.

McBride, Chief Justice, Boise City, Idaho Terr.

copy of our letter of this date to the Secretary of War, respecting the Navy yard property of the city

Stanbery, on the 6th March last, expressed his opinion in favor of the restoration of the property to the city

You state that certain items of account were allowed by the jury in favor of the defendant, against whom

the honor to enclose herewith a number of papers relating to a part of the town site of Deer Lodge City

communicate with the commanding General of the military Reconstruction District in which the proceedings were

—Indeed those of the undersigned who witnessed the proceedings, or were engaged in the defence, bear

that freedmen got justice'— and on the occasion of the killing, when the infuriated mob of freedmen were

of War has been requested to call upon the General commanding the District in which the proceedings were

Counsellor at Law, City Hall, Washington, D. C.

The estimates made for the office were as moderate as a respect for efficiency and promptness in the

way to and that is to send them to the nursery to flatbush Flatbush there is no instituti on in the city

clothed and fed if they ever can be cleaned says the they are so dirty that you would not know they were

James "Jimmy" and George "Georgy" were Nancy and Andrew's sons, and Nancy was pregnant with Andrew, Jr

from the Union Army in December of 1864, Cornwell returned to his position as a judge in the Brooklyn City

Whitman well i m I'm in for it now he took down the number they were going up to prospect park Prospect

It stretched to the city's eastern boundary.

Beveridge, "Olmsted, Frederick Law," American National Biography Online).

by the District Attorney and military authorities of California, nor by the Chief of Police of the city

Not a little ludicrous eulogy of this sort has been poured of late upon the American poet whose name

The brag, and bluster, and self-assertion of the man are American only; the fulsome 'cracking-up' of

pavements; Dweller in Mannahatta ‡ , city of ships, my city— or on southern savannas; Or a soldier camped

probably had in his pockets while we were talking.

that men and women were flexible, real, alive! that everything was alive!

.* Some eight or ten years ago there was delivered to the world a volume of what were called poems by

In Walt Whitman we are called upon to recognise "the founder of American poetry rightly to be so called

By way of showing us what a superior animal is this American poet, Mr.

. . . of the questions of those recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities filled with

The performed American and Europe grow dim, retiring in shadow behind me; The unperformed, more gigantic

Lane later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer, and

For Lane's career, see "Moses Lane," Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers (February

Manahatta Whitman (1860–1886), known as "Hattie," was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Whitman

Hattie and her younger sister Jessie Louisa (1863–1957) were both favorites of their uncle Walt.

Whitman lived with William D. and Nelly O'Connor, who, with Charles Eldridge and later John Burroughs, were

that kind this fall I went a few weeks ago on a little sail up and down the river with a party that were

be—fellows that thought that they had to look the newspaper as well as report for one  The speeches were

Freiligrath claimed that "For his admirers, Whitman is the only American poet, derived from the soil,

On June 25, 1868, the mayor and city council of St.

Louis Democrat, and he listened to numerous speeches proclaiming the virtues of the city and its illustrious

letter of the 25th ultimo, that his Opinion in the case of the title to the National Cemetery near City

Whitman started a business building houses on speculation with a man named Smith in 1865, and they were

Silbey, "Seymour, Horatio," American National Biography Online.

He sought the 1868 presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, but his support for African American

Copies of the volume were withdrawn so that the sequel could be added.

several poems, adding eighteen new poems to those that appeared in Drum-Taps, and all of these poems were

Later, these poems were folded into Leaves of Grass, and by the time the final arrangement of Leaves

Whitman (1829–1901), a Union soldier in the American Civil War, who had been wounded in the Battle of

Hooper, Care of Scott & Dash, 112 Pearl street, New York City.

propounding certain questions relative to the arrest of three colored British subjects at Key West, who were

Jefferson City, Mo.

inform you that the opinion of the Attorney General in the case of the National Cemetery at Jefferson City

Morrison, booksellers of this city. Very respectfully, M. F. Pleasants, Chief Clerk.

At this time Jeff was constructing the large storage reservoir within the city on Compton Hill.

George had a part-time job supervising the laying of water mains for the city of Brooklyn (Gay Wilson

Jay Cooke & Co. was a large bank at the corner of Wall and Nassau streets, New York City.

John Cummins, Boise City, Idaho Terr.

Miller, Silver City, Idaho Terr. Sir: The Hon E. D.

Attorney General your letter to him of the 31st ultimo, asking information of the vacancy which you were

I am directed to say, in reply, that you were nominated to, and confirmed by, the Senate, "to be associate

paper—then you ask questions and the "toy" will write answers  I went home last evening and found that they were

Grant"—then they asked it why Grant would be President and it wrote "Because"—lots of other questions were

Attorney and Counsellor, No. 26 Exchange Place, New York City Sir: In reply to your letter of the 22d

letter the first that i saw of those stamped enpelopes envelopes i dident didn't know whether they were

pipe inspector so long as Lane remained as the chief engineer ("Moses Lane," Proceedings of the American

The Brooklyn City Directory (1869) lists him as a jeweler at 462 Atlantic Avenue.

George Washington Whitman and "his gal" were on a leisure tour up East River.

During the 1860s, Price and her family, especially her daughter Helen, were friends with Walt Whitman

In 1860, the Price family began to save Walt's letters.

reprinted on September 5, 1868, in the Citizen; see Silver, "Thirty-One Letters of Walt Whitman," American

City, see p. 293 seq.

Evarts, Southmayd, & Choate, No. 52 Wall Street, New York City.

Gray, which were received with your letter of the 26th ult.,— and to state that the action of the commissioner

process in revenue cases, in Larue, Nelson, and Marion counties, Kentucky, deputies of the Marshal were

Brooklyn—we have lately had two storms that has put us back on the work very much indeed—the contractors were

not prepared for them and so were damaged a good deal  We have had a pretty severe storm this morning—but

I understand you were down to Woods at Florence  did you see our 36" pipe and if so what did you think

How are political matters about Brooklyn—Seymour I suppose will be ahead just in and about New York City

Louis Water Works (Proceedings of the City Council, St. Louis, June 23, 1868).

of a letter addressed to the Attorney General by him, with an affidavit of the deputy Marshals who were

. | New York City." It is postmarked: "(?) | Sep | 8."

probably get anywhere—most of the boarders have left—I and another young man are the only ones left—they were

in the Departments, & were discharged—Many have been discharged within the last two months, & many more

Gay Wilson Allen and Ed Folsom, (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995), 160–230.

Price, | 331 East 55th street, | bet 1st and 2d Av's, | New York City."

I am sorry I did not know you were going yesterday, because we could have arranged it all better than

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

During the 1860s, Price and her family, especially her daughter, Helen, were friends with Whitman and

In 1860 the Price family began to save Walt's letters.

Helen's reminiscences of Whitman were included in Richard Maurice Bucke's biography, Walt Whitman (Philadelphia

you—for I must tell you, Byron, I retain just the same friendship I formed for you the short time we were