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you —(I sent you the Indian piece, I believe)—When you get ready to go on further, or to any Western city

to me in such good spirits, & are well— they two are every thing —Keep on—explore the big western cities

Lawrence Barrett (1838–1891), an American actor, was noted for his Shakespearean roles.

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

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

This postal card is addressed: J L & J B Gilder | Critic office | 20 Lafayette Place | New York City.

Whitman on December 21, 1883, sent "A Backward Glance on My Own Road" to The North American Review and

The address on the envelope is J L & J B Gilder | Critic Office | 20 Lafayette PLace | New York City

Whitman must have concluded that the copies were not sent by the Gilders because, on January 11, he entered

He "returned to England confirmed by experience in his conception of the average American as a hard uninteresting

After a second trip to the United States in the summer of 1886, Arnold commented on American life being

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

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

If this humbug government were worth a copper spangle it wd would have settled a handsome pension on

Lathrop is likely referring to the American Copyright League, which he had founded in 1883.

Buinicki, "Walt Whitman and the Question of Copyright," American Literary History 15 (Summer 2003): 248

days—had a jolly time—a sleigh ride, or two—fine traveling, but too cold to enjoy it—Ruth and Burt were

Stafford, had a son named Edmund (1860–1939).

This essay was revised and included in Democratic Vistas, and Other Papers (1888) before parts of it were

The notes were apparently intended for a revision to the essay Robert Burns as Poet and Person, which

Robert Burns in The Critic (16 December 1882), and as Robert Burns as Poet and Person in The North American

1Undated, on the American Idiomloc.05187xxx.00469[?

titles of two articles; one was published as Slang in America, first in the periodical the North American

These drafts were later greatly revised and combined when published in 1889 with the title To the Year

certain that you in America will have all this to go through some day when you get more densely populated

Karl Knortz (1841–1915), the German-American scholar and admirer of Whitman, became Rolleston's collaborator

See Horst Frenz, "Karl Knortz, Interpreter of American Literature and Culture," American-German Review

, 13 (December 1946), 27–30 and Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman (Iowa City, IA

After a second trip to the United States in the summer of 1886, Arnold commented on American life being

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

83, they were staunch patriotsor " rebels," and several of the name were soldiersunder Washington, two

Those were his exact words.

If,for instance,by " some vast, instantaneous convulsion, American civilization " were lost,where isthe

They are certainly filledwith an American spiritbreathe the American air,and assert the fullest American

Of those that were plaeed in the stores none were sokl.

of money; she and the daughter and the latter's husband Richard Colyer settled down in the farm and were

must have been buried at Huntington village, for I remember seeing numerous old grave stones that were

—The stones I saw were brought away, lest they might be despoiled, and somehow, when the war passed over

, they were never returned.

—The largest trees near it, that I remember, appear to have been cut down.— The Whitmans were among the

This letter is addressed: O S Baldwin | N E cor: Broadway & Canal | New York City.

some good friends and I am shure sure with your letter, I can get something good in either of the cities

some good friends and I am shure sure with your letter, I can get something good in either of the cities

I sent you from here the proof of "Eminent Visitors" —See by the paper of 17th the errors I marked were

If any American bookseller would like it, which is not, I suppose, very probable, he must write to the

The mass of men are no longer capable of being gulled & duped and victimized as they were once.

If the masses were essentially unsound the prophet & the wise man would have only a barren soil to work

Some thought it was simply because you were a great man, and they gave me addresses of several well known

men in Literature &c. however, I told them these other men were not Walt Whitman and that the only others

visited Ausable Chasm, yesterday, weather not permitting sooner, and had a splendid perfect time, and were

If any American bookseller wants any copies he can get them from Carl Tittmann.

Doehn, the author of a history of American Literature I told you of.

See Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995

See also Harold Blodgett, "Whitman and Dowden," American Literature, 1 (1922), 171–182.

I return your Salt Lake City letter about Bacon and Shakespeare, having carefully read it thrice.

The North American man called it "so very valuable a manuscript," apologizing for declining it on the

You will see it makes some outrageously false statements about you at which your friends were naturally

spirit, but because the facts I give are of current interest, and should be kept well before the American

I am at present very busy as I want to complete my critical history of American literature as soon as

AN AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Boston 1876. C. Schoenhof. Shakespeare in Amerika.

MODERN AMERICAN LYRICS. Leipzig 1880. F. U. Brodhaus.

which I meant to have sent you at the time, but missed somehow—I am well as usual— W W (Salt Lake City

On September 22 O'Connor wrote: "I return your Salt Lake City letter about Bacon and Shakespeare, having

This letter is addressed: Karl Knortz | Cor: Morris avenue | & 155th Street | New York City.

Knortz also informed the poet that in his "critical history of American literature . . . a whole chapter

Mexico, a letter of congratulations on the "anniversary of the 333d year of the settlement of their city

It is singular & unnecessary— you were entirely welcome, & always have been — —I have been away most

seem to refer to the contiguous communities of Kirkwood and Glendale interchangeably, as if Kirkwood were

Bucke informs us, were given away, most of them were lost, abandoned, or destroyed. ∗ According to Mr

'On the whole, it sounds to me,' were his words, 'very brave and American, after whatever deductions.

First we may notice that in spirit he is intensely American.

There is little in them that is distinctively American.

Were it not that we have Mr.

communist and utopian communities in the United States, including La Reunion in Texas and North American

New York City, has translated many of my poems in German, & published them.

Leaves of Grass to any purchaser, and informed Stevens, Marston, Tobey, and Comstock, all of whom were

City Hall all this month at a very secluded place—good quarters, very quiet—on a visit to an old Quaker

He spoke of the devotion of Americans to the worship of the dollar, which surprised me, as his usual

His reservations were completely oversloughed by his eulogy.

man—all dear friends of mine—I have been here quite a good deal the last year & a half, when they were

Wyld and Edwards were Mrs. Stafford's boarders (Whitman's Commonplace Book).

We have had pleasant glimpses of several American friends this summer—of Kate Hillard for instance, who

cultivated of Whitman's compatriots should be won over by his gorgeous anticipations of the "fruitage" of American

Wilson and McCormick is apparently printed from the same plates as the American edition, but upon better

at any rate, a very familiar idea to be found; but we have to confess that after careful reading we were

ye were, in your atmospheres, grown not for America, but rather for her foes, the feudal and the old—while

Unless, too, the reader possesses considerable familiarity with American slang, he will frequently be

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

The American (same mail with this,) after reading please forward to Dr Bucke.

O'Connor mentioned corrections in Bucke's book and referred to the "office editor" of The North American

all at once to send my pictures, I have not been very prompt have I Walt about the pictures these were

What other American poet has earned, or will ever earn, the proud distinction of having an article upon

typical Protestant, according to Lord Chief Justice Campbell, a Protestant and a Scotchman, there were

My father's side—probably the fifth generation from the first English arrivals in New England—were at

The theatre, too, he delighted in, and saw all the great actors and singers, American or European, in

native Americans.

Second, there were in the Northern army men from every State in the Union, without exception.

Garfield said, "Do gentlemen know that (leaving out all the border States) there were fifty regiments

The popular American humorist Artemus Ward (1834-1867) (pseudonym of Charles Farrar Browne) influenced

well)—those great long jovial walks we had at times for years, (1866– '72 1872 ) out of Washington City—often

Michael Nash were old, mutual friends of Whitman and Peter Doyle in Washington.

June 26 188 3 Dear Sir, I am collecting material for an article upon the late Sidney Lanier, a true American

This letter is addressed: Dr Karl Knortz | Cor: Morris Avenue | & 155th Street | New York City.