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game of Base Ball Baseball Played here to day, between the Nationals, & the Olympics, both of this city

It is inexplicable that they cannot be exposed like the doors after which they were modeled upon the

The city of Dayton divides with Cleveland the reputation of being the most beautiful city in Ohio.

Mobs were frequent, news papers were torn out, Vallandigham's door was beaten in with muskets, his friends

went armed and people were shot dead.

Breakfast brought florid faced cockneys; at dinner there were Americans—ladies and men—making haste to

The New York Clipper excerpt, "The Oldest American Sporting and Theatrical Journal."

The Sorrells were evidently brothers and drivers.

Harry (No II) sends you his love says he wished you would go to the city Hall at the sheriffs office

When I rose I said I was going up to my room to write to you & William—there were warm expressions from

appearance in our easy-going, imitative literature of an obstinate, tenacious, determined living American

The previous Star arrived with your note of 23d, written just as you were going to see the Black Crook

Y. with me, if it were possible, & then how much I should like having you with me.

This great city, with all its crowds, & splendor, & Broadway fashion, & women, & amusements, & the river

Your favor of 2d inst. to me, and papers for others were duly received, and I am requested by the recipients

Frederick Kelly, Charles McLaughlin, and Thomas Riley were listed as New York drivers.

Your favor of 2 d inst. instant to me, and papers for others were duly received, and I am requested by

I always enjoy seeing the city let loose, and on the rampage, as it was last night to the fullest extent

The whole city was lit up with torches. Cannons were fired all night in various parts of the city.

They were nearly an hour passing us, streaming both sides.

In the procession were all sorts of objects, models of ships, forty or fifty feet long, full-manned,

Fireworks were going off in every direction.

The article in the Herald was lengthy (almost a page and one-half) but factual and colorless: "It were

is going the rounds, to your great honor, and glory, nothing appealing to the esthetic aesthetic American

Your letters were sent by young Rowland.

off their friendship in late 1872 over Reconstruction policies with regard to emancipated African Americans

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

Harlan apparently took offense at the copy of the 1860 Leaves of Grass which Whitman was revising and

Berg Collection of English and American Literature).

living in Washington, D.C., he published an eccentric three-volume Diary, a day-by-day account of the American

On the back of the second leaf of this draft letter Whitman drafted poetic lines that were published

October the 16/1868 Walter Whitman dear friend hearing you was in the city i have taken the liberty of

According to the 1860 U. S.

C. from this city—arrived between 8 and 9 o'clock at night—found his carriage at the depot waiting for

I have since been round the city & suburbs considerably.

Channing, old acquaintances of mine in another part of the city.

It is on a high & pleasant hill at the side of the city, which it entirely overlooks.

From the window of my room, I can look down across the city, the river, and off miles upon miles in the

Then away late—lost my way—wandered over the city, & got home after one o'clock.

I go about quite a good deal—this is as handsome a city, as I ever saw.

Except in a few of the business streets, where the buildings are compact—in nine-tenths of the city,

I never saw such a prosperous looking city—but of course no grand public buildings like Washington.

Sarah Helen Whitman (1803–1878), the American poet and fiancée of Edgar Allan Poe, to whom he wrote the

According to Dictionary of American Biography, Perry (1831–1896) was a poet, journalist, and author of

only for its charming locality & features, but for its proof & expression of fine relations, as a city

weeks, Walt Whitman, the poet, is just returning, we hear, to his residence and employment in this city

According to Dictionary of American Biography, Perry (1831–1896) was a poet, journalist, and author of

Price, | 331 East 55th street, | between 1st and 2d Avenues | New York City."

Whitman refers to Amasa and William Sprague, manufacturers; their factories were detailed in Whitman's

Sarah Helen Whitman (1803–1878), the American poet and fiancée of Edgar Allan Poe, to whom he wrote the

According to Dictionary of American Biography, Perry (1831–1896) was a poet, journalist, and author of

The sale at the American Art Association on March 11, 1924, listed a one-page letter to Burroughs on

The summary of the letter is drawn from an auction catalog put out by the American Art Association for

Taylor without making note of it, I have been unable to answer & besides the American News Co to whom

This letter is addressed: Hon Walt Whitman | Atty Genls Office, | Washington City, | D.C.

Benjamin Franklin Taylor (1822–1887) was an American poet who worked as a Western correspondent during

The American News Company was a New York magazine—and later comic book—distribution company founded in

The American News Company published John Burroughs's Notes on Walt Whitman, as Poet and Person in 1867

If any printed briefs were filed in those cases, by the United States or the claimants, I should be glad

Grier, "Walt Whitman, the Galaxy, and Democratic Vistas," American Literature 23.3 (November 1951), 337

some how or other matty Matty is i know what to say the doctor has sounded her lungs and said they were

"Nelly" O'Connor, who, with Charles Eldridge and later John Burroughs, were to be his close associates

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

Wilson, Chief Justice, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Louisa acknowledged two recent letters from Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Whitman and Mattie, letters that were

"Nelly" O'Connor, who, with Charles Eldridge and later John Burroughs, were to be his close associates

employee at the Brooklyn Water Works from 1856 to 1868, an assistant engineer in the Department of City

Scudder, a respectable lawyer in New York City, well-known to me,— a copy of which I enclose.

that I shall be pleased to see you there, but can make no more definite appointment until I reach the city

New York City.

at the University of Vermont Medical School, performed surgeries in Burlington, Vermont during the 1860s

Letcher, came to my hands only this morning, in consequence of my absence from the city.

In a couple of weeks more, Congress will meet, and then the city will be quite lively.

Sir: In reply to your letter of the 17th instant, touching the ownership of certain land near the city

Is it your haunting voice as I heard it that last night we were together, chanting to me that divine

Samuel Blatchford, United States District Judge, New York City Sir: I have the honor to ask your attention

in the case of William Muller, now in prison under your sentence for contempt of court, and which were

Sale & Dowd were employed to assist the Dist. Attorney.

Newton Benedict were Walt Whitman's landlords at 468 M North, having replaced Juliet Grayson after her

I am unable to understand under what precise authority you acted, or were expected to act, in representing

at the University of Vermont Medical School, performed surgeries in Burlington, Vermont during the 1860s

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

Butler in the Superior Court of the city of Baltimore.

also later served as president of the New York Chamber of Commerce and as a Commissioner of New York City's

to appear in the Atlantic Monthly; "Bardic Symbols" was published in the Atlantic Monthly of April 1860

See also Whitman's January 20, 1860, letter to James Russell Lowell and his March 2, 1860, letter to

The Republican publishers of the Washington Daily Morning Chronicle in 1868 were offering to new subscribers

James Russell Lowell had been the editor at the Atlantic Monthly when Whitman published there in 1860

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American poet and essayist who began the Transcendentalist movement

and was the second of Whitman's poems to appear in the magazine; "Bardic Symbols" was published in 1860

(For more on "Bardic Symbols," see Whitman's January 20, 1860 letter to James Russell Lowell and Whitman's

March 2, 1860 letter to the editor of the Atlantic Monthly.)

that by an order made at the last term of the court, they stood assigned for argument to-day, and were

As I told you in my previous letter, this city is quite small potatoes after living in New York.

City Hall; but the oceans of life & people, such as in N. Y. & the shipping &c, are lacking here.

James Russell Lowell had been the editor at the Atlantic Monthly when Whitman published there in 1860