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My wife received lately a letter from M G. to serve as an introduction for an American lady, M Edwards

Whitman that the writer is one of his ardent admirers, & that it was a rich treat to read in your American

I can but repeat my delight in this prospect, were it to be realized, & my wife's hope & my own that

See Catherine Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry 1860–1879: an Annotated Bibliography (London: Mansell, 2000

was co pied into some (I dare say numerous) English papers; & one Editor wrote asking what was the American

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

Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907) was an American abolitionist, minister, and frequent correspondent

If you were blessed with an unsurpassably good mother, I can with truth say the same of myself.

intelligence, could long hold out against the verdict rendered in his favor by the consensus of English and American

say that "November Boughs" (Philadelphia: David McKay) is an important permanent contribution to American

breath of life to my whole scheme that the bulk of the pieces might as well have been left unwritten were

Take, for exmaple, this epigram on "The Bravest Soldiers:" "Brave, brave were the soldiers (high-named

" 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

David McKay (1860–1918) took over Philadelphia-based publisher Rees Welsh's bookselling and publishing

For more information about McKay, see Joel Myerson, "McKay, David (1860–1918)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia

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

Sir: I beg leave to enclose a determination and order respecting the claim of Nott & Company, American

What that compensation would be for such services as were rendered by Mr.

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

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

William Fullerton, 11 Pine street New York City.

of your letter, I called your attention to this statement of the extent of the protection which you were

defendants, as made to you, had not furnished directly or indirectly the evidence for the indictments, and were

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

Samuel Blatchford, Judge United States Court, New York City. Sir: The case of John H.

attention to that point, as doubtless at the time of the conviction the grounds of this discrimination were

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

revenue system of the United States is concerned, would be subjected to forfeiture in favor of the American

invited to aid the investigations of the government into alleged frauds upon the Internal Revenue of the city

New York City. Dear Sir: The record in the Rosenberg case was not printed until Monday last.

No. 61 Wall street New York City Sir: I enclose a duplicate original of the determination & order which

While I would be very happy to give my individual opinion upon this subject, if I were possessed of the

Western District of Pennsylvania relative to the case of Arthur Ballou, and the instructions which were

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

City The subject to which your letter refers had received my official attention some days since, and

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

Butler in the Superior Court of the city of Baltimore.

directed the suspension, delay, or discontinuance of proceedings against parties prosecuted in New York City

The prosecutions referred to in my letters were for frauds upon Internal Revenue, as I then understood

Fullerton to ascertain whether the charges were to be duly submitted, or would be withdrawn.

Attorney Courtney— and these, and these alone, were the reasons for my direction of the suspension or

Murray were immediately advised thereof, and their presence required to meet these charges.

fines in each case; & who of such persons, have been pardoned by the President, & when such pardons were

resolution is, as to "who of such persons have been pardoned by the President, & when such pardons were

Gen. are replies, were returned with those replies to the Interior Dept. or the counsel by whom they

were transmitted.

woman's postscript) have I told you at any time that I have been & am preparing a vol: volume of Amer: American

I wish you were here now that the storms seem over.

you go you must see W m William Bell Scott, the painter and poet, the first (unless, Dante Rossetti were

Albert Edward Johnston and Calder Johnston were the sons of the jeweler John H.

Pink was a land and social reform activist in Brooklyn in the 1860s and 1870s.

Wm Cooper of this city (the free thinker, that I took over to see you some years ago) sent to the country

Twenty four hours after his death the retort fires were started on Sunday morning and at 4 in the afternoon

These are part of what thoughts were crowding in my brain as I stood watching for one hour till my friend

wished me to do in this matter and I know well he would have been pleased to know that his remains were

book had come, I also told him that you had been dismissed from office in Washington, and that the American

The papers I should have sent, were not sent. Perhaps they will be sent to-day.

The Companions were hard to find, in the body, but until they appeared I had consolatation consolation

The verses I enclose were written by a journeyman boiler-maker, in 1871. Wm Harrison Riley. P.S.

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

It was reissued three times: in 1892, 1897, and 1905, and further editions were published into the 1920s

Taylor was over last week And he was speaking about how He is gent for Sewing ( machines And lives at City

Little is known about the men Taylor mentions here except that they were former drivers in New York and

Whitman sent "Old Poets" to the North American Review on October 9.

The North American Review, 3 East Fourteenth Street, New York.

Dear Sir:— Can you write a brief article for the North American Review on Recent Aspects of American

The North American Review was the first literary magazine in the United States.

Whitman sent "Old Poets" to the North American Review on October 9.

The North American Review. 3 East Fourteenth Street, New York. Dictated. December 16, 1890 Dear Mr.

was published in The North American Review 125 (March 1891), 332–338.

giving you this as an excuse for not comeing coming up to see you again before Leveing leaving the city

with a very severe Chill chill and the morning I was so sick that I could not think of staying in the city

My arm has come out in a sore were where one of the balls struck it it is so bad that it gives me much

Uncle if I were to send you an aplication application for a position in the Interior Department with

" 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

Walt Whitman, My dear Sir:— Your "Old Poets" in the November Number of the North American Review, I read

Why should not the poem that is to last be written by an American?

Whitman's essay "Old Poets" was first published in the November 1890 issue of The North American Review

The North American Review was the first literary magazine in the United States.

i am at home now i got home after noon my famly is well i left washington wensday we got to Jursey city

receive your letter [This letter is currently lost] yesterday and was glad to heer from yo and yo were

expect evry day to start for elickazandry [Alexandria] to the convalesent camp if i could get to the city

Carberry, Hoyne, Groenemyer, Loughsen, Whitbeck, and Murden he did not say in his letter where the men were

Made Captain Aug. 1864—got a family in Buffalo" (Manuscripts of Walt Whitman in the Collection of American

Volunteers in April, 1861, enlisted with the 51st Regiment, New York State Volunteers in September, 1861 were

I was much pleased to hear from him and the rest of the Officers that were taken prisoners with him.

And I know they were neither wounded nor killed, as we had no chance of hearing from them until your

I have found Your Brothers large Trunk it was Stored at City Point.

was one half of the Boston-based abolitionist publishing firm Thayer and Eldridge, who issued the 1860

David McKay (1860–1918) took over Philadelphia-based publisher Rees Welsh's bookselling and publishing

For more information about McKay, see Joel Myerson, "McKay, David (1860–1918)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia

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