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cover an invitation to attend our celebration of the 333 Anniversary of the occupation of the oldest city

sending a poem, Whitman sent a letter expounding on the influences of Spanish colonization on the American

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

This letter is addressed: J B Gilder | Critic office | 30 Lafayette Square | New York City.

On August 12, 1882, Swinton informed the poet that his lecture on American literature had been translated

I hope you are better than you were. I am very sorry that you should suffer.

Dear Mr Whitman, I received the paper you were kind enough to send me containing a review of Dr Bucke's

I was asked whether those verses were written for the book, or about yourself, and I said "No—they were

published in the magazine some time ago and were suggested by another writer."

I am very sorry that paragraph appeared as it did, or at all, as it might look as if I were not a friend

putting my rough M.S. into shape and I am more than satisfied with all you have done—I see now that you were

—I am obliged to you for the notice in the North American (G.E.M.).

William Sloane Kennedy (1850–1929) was on the staff of the Philadelphia American and the Boston Transcript

; he also published biographies of Longfellow, Holmes, and Whittier (Dictionary of American Biography

Right glad to hear of your good health—had an idea that you were not so well again this winter.

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

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

have quite understood the whole of your message yet, & sometimes it has seemed to me as though you were

In 1883, Karl Knortz (1841–1918), the author of many articles on German-American affairs, was living

in New York City.

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

seriously after my return, and developed into a bad attack of erysipelas, with which my head and face were

If I were well, I would certainly attempt it, but so far as I am concerned, the opportunity must be lost

I hear that the North American is getting up an article about you. Do you know anything about it?

"For only those who in sad cities dwell, Are of the green fields fully sensible."

Whitman, however, fibbed, for on May 28 Bucke wrote: "I see now that you were right about the Latin motto

If we were to begin the setting of the copy de novo you should certainly be obeyed in every detail &

You left out my remarks on 'Children of Adam', I believe they were good but I acquiesce—your additions

received —The printers are very slow—but will be coming along in a day [or] two—have a sudden rush—the American

You left out my remarks on 'Children of Adam', I believe they were good but I acquiesce—your additions

You left out my remarks on "Children of Adam", I believe they were good but I acquiesce—your additions

Hildreth 334 W. 35th St New York City. Return to C.L.H. 334 W. 35th St. N.Y.C.

was a sculptor and illustrator from New York, who was best known for depicting the events of the American

Stoddart's Encyclopaedia America, established Stoddart's Review in 1880, which was merged with The American

the original location of the illustrations in Bucke's biography, since all of his recommendations were

wants it so, but mainly because you request it, I accede to the names of books being left as they were

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O'Connor were sisters.

Horace Traubel reported that Whitman's "eyes were full of tears" (With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York

was a sculptor and illustrator from New York, who was best known for depicting the events of the American

one—he showed it at first, & stronger still at last —that Saturday evn'g & Sunday afternoon he & I were

stated that although he wanted to delete the passages mentioned, he was in a "dilemma," since they were

This sentence and the postscript were written in red ink and perhaps added to the letter by Whitman at

It is not an English word, nor is it Americanized, according to the standard dictionaries; yet Mr.

Whitman has made it good American, so far as in his power lies, and stamped it with more than ordinary

about Carlyle and Emerson was too recently published (in these pages) to need present notice, and so were

'The Poetry of the Future' and 'A Memorandum at a Venture' (in The North American ).

poem and this volume of essays and notes form in themselves a literary inter-state exhibition or American

Rugby, England, Jan. 9 th , 1883 Sir: I have received the copy of "Specimen Days & Collect" which you were

war" formerly published, and whether it is being published by Trübner & Co in the same form as the American

by the symbol (a butterfly on the extended finger of a hand) which appears on these imprints dated 1860

Memoranda During the War (1875) chronicles Whitman's time as a hospital volunteer during the American

Whitman's dealings with Trübner & Company were handled through Josiah Child.

was a free, sixty-four-page promotional pamphlet published by Thayer and Eldridge to advertise the 1860

Into this volume he has gathered fragments of writing, some of which were produced as long ago as 1860

, and all of which are illustrative of his thoughts and his experiences in the woods and the city, in

The contents of this manuscript were used in Complete Prose (1892), under the title Written Impromptu

The lines were revised and published as Queries to My Seventieth Year in 1888. [Here fretful]

leafhandwrittenprinted; A manuscript fragment composed on the verso of a page of a program or journal of the American

1Undated, on the American Idiomloc.05186xxx.00469[(for name?]

ruminates about a title, presumably for the piece published as Slang in America, first in the North American

published (the first Mannahatta, which begins with the words "I was asking...," first appeared in the 1860

confirmed by seeing that a perceptible 'disillusionment' has already made its appearance among many who were

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

I hear from Percy that you are in better health than you were during the summer.

We were never before separated. It is a trial.

Until I came to Michigan, thirty years ago, all my surroundings were among Friends, twelve years at Roslyn

Two of these neighbors were the poet William Cullen Bryant and his wife (Krieg, 227).

Dowden, for instance, associates him with Shakespeare, and a recent commentator of American literature

It contains many of those brief, sketchily written notes on nature which were, it is apparent, jotted

of our Western world; and it includes, above all, those widely discussed prefaces, touching upon American

poetry to-day, and especially upon the future of American poetry, as this is viewed by Whitman.

, upon four American poets—Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, and Emerson.

.; The American poet and critic Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903) was part of a circle of genteel writers

the list, not merely because of my esteem for you personally, but because of your importance in American

reviews & magazines, &c, &c, & will doubtless embrace a number of the working men of letters in other cities

The address and the text of the note were cut out and pasted on the flyleaves of Rolleston's copy of

The envelope is addressed: J L & J B Gilder | Critic | office | 30 Lafayette Place | New York City.

With additions he republished it as "Robert Burns as Poet and Person" in The North American Review, 143

It is time, however, that an attempt were made to arrive at a sober estimate of his real value; and to

Nor does it mean that the merit of the author was quite unrecognized: on the contrary, by some who were

But the mass of his countrymen were not and are not strong enough to accept him; they have perhaps too

If we were asked for justification of the high estimate of this poet, which has been implied, if not

They themselves were fully at rest, they suffered not; The living remained and suffer'd.

The first writings of Carlyle and Emerson were despised and rejected; and yet these very writings have

had so profound an influence in forming the thought of our period, that it were impossible to imagine

It seems as if, so far, there were some natural repugnance between a literary and professional life,

A large part of the volume is occupied by Whitman's diary during the American War.

Some of the sketches were written as letters to friends during the war and afterwards.

She, like my mother's sister, are to me fine, lovable samples of American women—in whom, I mean, I detect

, like the distinctive aroma of a flower, something special—that is American—a decisive new quality to

Half-Paralytic"—these and other titles for his bundle of jottings, made during and after the war, were

Whitman's liking; and in his criticism of modern society, although at bottom he believes that the American

—these, with a few inevitable reserves, were all acceptable to, and accepted by, the author of Leaves

There were two or three I shall probably never forget.

Elsewhere there is eloquent recognition of the work done for American literature by Longfellow, Bryant

This letter is addressed: Karl Knortz | cor: Morris Av: & 155th St: | New York City.

Thoreau appeared in the "American Men of Letters" series in 1882.

. & 155th Street | New York City. It is postmarked: Camden | Nov | 14 | 2 PM | N.J.; P.

Leaves of Grass Imprints (Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860).