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You must be quite a little better than you were this time last year and I do not now see why you should

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

The notes and addresses that were delivered at Whitman's seventieth birthday celebration in Camden, on

May 31, 1889, were collected and edited by Horace Traubel.

We Americans have yet to really learn our own antecedents, and sort them, to unify them.

To that composite American identity of the future, Spanish character will supply some of the most needed

Then another point, relating to American ethnology, past and to come, I will here touch upon at a venture

As to our aboriginal or Indian population—the Aztec in the South, and many a tribe in the North and West—I

might assume to do so, I would like to send you the most cordial, heart-felt congratulations of your American

just finish'dfinished their long drawn out anniversary of the 333d year of the settlement of their city

Sammis wrote to Walt Whitman on April 6, 1860, and was mentioned in his April 15, 1863 letter to Louisa

himself a stone cottage in a beautiful spot on the banks of the Hudson, 60 miles north of New York City

This postcard is addressed: John Swinton | 134 East 38th street | New York City.

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

letter is addressed: Edmund C Stedman | 3 east Fourteenth Street | (C E Webster Publisher's) | New York City

Whitman received more space in A Library of American Literature than any other poet.

Ursula and John were married on September 12, 1857.

— —The next N A North American Review (June number) will have a piece A Memorandum at a Venture signed

On May 1, Burroughs wrote to Gilder, probably Richard, "So far as this is the wish of the city of Boston

Burroughs and Traubel, however, were in error, for on January 27, 1883, Whitman noted: "returned $100

been at White Horse now for a fortnight) —My nieces are still with us (though just now at Atlantic City

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

Seward are willing to avoid at present the tempest of rage which would beat about their heads, if it were

known among the Radicals that Peace, Amnesty, every thing , were given up to the Rebels on the single

If perfectly eligible, it might help me in the cause of the men, if you were to prepare a paragraph for

Shillaber's paper, if he were willing to publish it, stating that I am now as a volunteer nurse among

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

Ursula and John were married on September 12, 1857.

lieutenants out—I suppose you know that LeGendre is now Col. of the 51st—it's a pity if we havn't Americans

especially in the hospitals, convinces me that there is no other stock, for emergencies, but native American—no

the west, and far north—and they take to a man that has not the bleached shiny & shaved cut of the cities

of Mannahatta's verbal ability: "Yesterday one of the Hearkness children was in our rooms and they were

Nicholson, 1860]).

would like to have the pleasure of Miss Mannahatta Whitman's company, the first fine forenoon, if it were

In diary entries in 1867 and 1870, Whitman noted Fritsch's address at the American Papier Maché Company

Whitman printed an account of this engagement in the New York Daily Graphic in 1874; see American Literature

Mullan's explorations were described in the U.S.

, green, spotted, lined, or of our old chocolate color—all these marbles used as freely as if they were

chandeliers and mantels, and clocks in every room—and indeed by far the richest and gayest, and most un-American

The Brooklyn Directory of 1865–66 listed Drake as an inspector in City Hall.

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

Bruce Catton (Glory Road: The Bloody Route from Fredericksburg to Gettysburg [Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday

On the day Whitman wrote this letter, Jeff reported that the three were recovering, and that "I think

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

I shall send you a tally of the latter as I Walt Whitman to Thayer & Eldridge, May 1860

It would appear, then, that despite his reference in the letter from May 10, 1860 to his imminent departure

Well, Mat, I will suspend my letter for the present, and go out through the city—I have a couple of poor

There were about 100 in one long room, just a long shed neatly whitewashed inside.

Then there were many, many others. I mention the one, as a specimen.

My Brooklyn boys were John Lowery, shot at Fredericksburgh, and lost his left forearm, and Amos H.

O'Connor (1832–1889) was the author of Harrington, an abolition novel published by Thayer & Eldridge in 1860

the most important, of the adulators who divided people arbitrarily into two categories: those who were

for and those who were against Walt Whitman.

According to Whitman's jottings in "New York City Veterans," Whitman discovered John Lowery (here spelled

Francis's tent—there were five of us altogether, to eat, sleep, write, &c. in a space twelve feet square

He encountered two men whom he had met in Boston in 1860: William D.

Littlefield, 1906-1996], 2:157), and, upon his arrival on the following day, took rooms where the O'Connors were

Chapin of 24 Beekman Street, New York City, set the type for the 1867 edition of Leaves of Grass; see

Yours &c Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Frederick Baker, 24 April 1860

On April 23, 1860, Frederick Baker, attorney at law, 15 Nassau Street, New York City, wrote to Whitman

every thing was so quiet, I supposed all might go on smoothly—but it seems the passions of the people were

call it,) & I hear nothing in all directions but threats of ordering up the gunboats, cannonading the city

See also Lawrence Lader, "New York's Bloodiest Week," in American Heritage, 10 (June 1959).

extras)—So I go round—Some of my boys die, some get well— O what a sweet unwonted love (those good American

My brave young American soldiers—now for so many months I have gone around among them, where they lie

James Redpath (1833–1891) was the author of The Life of John Brown (1860), a correspondent for the New

York Tribune during the war, the originator of the "Lyceum" lectures, and editor of the North American

He met Whitman in Boston in 1860 (The Library of Congress #90), and remained an enthusiastic admirer;

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

after the outset of our party, he would grow still & cloudy & up & unaccountably depart—but these were

I suppose you were at Charles Chauncey's funeral—tell me about it, & all particulars about his death.

When Horace Traubel finished reading this letter aloud, "Walt's eyes were full of tears.

remember that these government hospitals are not filled as with human débris like the old established city

hospitals, New York, &c., but mostly [with] these good-born American young men, appealing to me most

I make no bones of petting them just as if they were—have long given up formalities & reserves in my

to do any thing of the sort, but shall speak of him every time, & send him my love, just as if he were

Hugo, I suppose you were at Charles Chauncey's funeral—tell me all you hear about the particulars of

Relations between the two families were sometimes strained; see Whitman's letter from March 22, 1864.

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

need now to go to California, & they will finish the job complete— O mother, how welcome the shirts were—I

such a price—& so my old ones had got to be, when they come back from the wash I had to laugh, they were

she bears down pretty hard I guess when she irons them, & they showed something like the poor old city

told you two or three weeks ago, that is that I had to discard my old clothes, somewhat because they were

too thick & more still because they were worse gone in than any I ever yet wore I think in my life,

such things are awful—not a soul here he knew or cared about, except me—yet the surgeons & nurses were

to take off the leg—he was under chloroform—they tried their best to bring him to—three long hours were

McReady I know to be as good a man as the war has received out of Brooklyn City" (Emory Holloway, ed.

, The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman [Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921],

See Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday

See Whitman's letter from April 1, 1860 . The son, William A.

He later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer.

Thomas Cotrel or Cottrell (1808–1887) occupied various positions in the Brooklyn city government, including

It would seem as though Whitman were anticipating Jeff's letter of May 9, 1863: "Of course we all feel

happened for our dear times, when we first got acquainted, (we recked not of them as they passed,) were

I am writing this in Major Hapgood's office, fifth story, by a window that overlooks all down the city

October 4; reprinted in Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City

Relations between the two families were sometimes strained; see Whitman's letter from March 22, 1864.

the affections, soothe them, brace them up, kiss them, discard all ceremony, & fight for them, as it were

The days in the hospitals were too serious for that" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [New

exact thing at the exact moment, goes a great ways, to make gifts comfort & truly nourish these American

Stevenson, Anne and Mary Wigglesworth were patrons of various benevolent organizations in Boston.

years of age—lads of 15 or 16 more frequent than you have any idea—seven-eighths of the Army are Americans

must understand like the diseased half-foreign collections under that name common at all times in cities—in

The brothers were descendants of a distinguished Massachusetts family.

man & his wife have written me, & asked me my address in Brooklyn, he said he had children in N Y city

(I guess we, I & the wounded &c, were made for each other.)

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

, the originator of the "Lyceum" lectures, and editor of the North American Review in 1886.

He met Whitman in Boston in 1860 (Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of Walt Whitman, The Library of Congress

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

to see a young man whom I love very much, who has fallen into deepest affliction, & is now in your city

deal for many weeks—he then went home to Barre—became worse—has now been sent from his home to your city—is

many pale as ashes, & all bloody—I distributed all my stores, gave partly to the nurses I knew that were

Our men engaged were Kilpatrick's cavalry.

They were in the rear as part of Meade's retreat—& the reb cavalry cut in between & cut them off & [attacked

any time I will give you a letter to him—I shouldn't wonder if the big men, with Fremont at head, were

front doors, with four locks & bolts on one, & three on the other—& a big bull-dog in the back yard—we were

" 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

They planned to build a railroad from Kansas City to the West.

Stedman was engaged by Hallett to edit The American Circular, which propagandized for the new railroad

forget their kindness & real friendship & it appears as though they would continue just the same, if it were

years until Lincoln came in—They have bought another house, smaller, to live in, & are going to move (were

Mother, I think something of commencing a series of lectures & readings &c. through different cities

Eldridge and later John Burroughs, were to be his close associates during the early Washington years.

O'Connor (1832–1889) was the author of Harrington, an abolition novel published by Thayer & Eldridge in 1860

the most important, of the adulators who divided people arbitrarily into two categories: those who were

for and those who were against Walt Whitman.

sight must have been presented by the field of action—I think the killed & wounded there on both sides were

as many as eighteen or twenty thousand—in one place, four or five acres, there were a thousand dead,

I have got in the way after going lightly as it were all through the wards of a hospital, & trying to

on acc't of the sun—yesterday & to-day however have been quite cool, east wind—Mother, the shirts were

Times, October 29, 1864 (Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman [Garden City

Relations between the two families were sometimes strained; see Whitman's letter from March 22, 1864.

Rumors were widespread that Lee was about to attack Washington, for the War Department on June 23, 1863

Whitman described the career of Hicks (1748–1830), the famous American Quaker, in November Boughs (Richard

The city surrendered formally on July 4, 1863.

& I think this quite important, for such the main body of East Tennesseans are, & are far truer Americans

(I mean the American ones to a man) all feel about the copperheads, they never speak of them without

goes, & as the darkey said there at Charleston when the boat run on a flat & the reb sharpshooters were

Weather—The President," "Signs of Next Session," "The Wounded in the Hospitals," "The Army Young and American

It is reprinted in Emory Holloway, ed., The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City

They have their own ways (not outside eclat, but in manly American hearts, however rude, however undemonstrative

In our ward the screws were put rather tight, out of a little over 3000 names they drew 1056, nearly

Washington September 15 1863 Dear Mother Your letters were very acceptable—one came just as I was putting

the very hour of death or just the same when they recover, or partially recover—I never knew what American

young men were till I have been in the hospitals— Well, mother, I have got writing on—there is nothing

on September 7, 1863, that, as he wrote, orders for his regiment to move to join Burnside's forces were

Most of its members were Irish.

Comprising over half the city's foreign-born population of 400,000, out of a total of about 814,000,

the Irish were the main source of cheap labor, virtually its peon class.

to exist" American Heritage, 10 (June 1959), 48.