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D. sales rather sluggish—(1500 were printed, towards 400 remain on the shelves in 23 Ninth St.)

Only 1,000 copies of Specimen Days were printed in 1882 (see Whitman's letter to Anne Gilchrist of October

the Falls without change so that there would not be any difficulty in coming that far alone if you were

when the Red Birds and Yellow Birds, the Knickerbocker and Fourth avenue and the old Broadway lines were

The contents are brief essays or sketches, mostly fragmentary, many of them dated as if they were leaves

The several prefaces to , 1855, 1872, 1876, succeed; then the North American Review paper on "Poetry

Daniel Webster (1782-1852), the American orator and politician.

William Walker (1824-1860) was an American adventurer and soldier who attempted to conquer several Latin

American countries.

.; Daniel Webster (1782-1852), the American orator and politician.; Henry Clay (1777-1852) was an American

He was also Secretary of State from 1861-1869.; William Walker (1824-1860) was an American adventurer

and soldier who attempted to conquer several Latin American countries.

president of the Republic of Nicaragua from 1856-1857 and was executed by the government of Honduras in 1860

political reformer Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894)led Hungary's struggle for independence from Austria.; The American

while he was still in his teens are so melodramatic and unreal, that they would be unworthy of notice were

The great cities reek with respectable as much as non-respectable robbery and scoundrelism.

the spirit of civilized communism and socialism is not far enough removed from the minds of our American

But his greatest grievance is that there is no American literature, as such.

But Artemus Ward is as redolent of the American soil as Walt Whitman, and while he is not, in any sense

But granted that we have no distinctive American literature, with the exception of Walt Whitman himself

. ∗ ∗ ∗ The successive growth-stages of my infancy, childhood, youth and manhood were all pass'd on Long

He has visited Boston and the principal cities in Canada and in the West.

The hospital notes are printed in the slovenly shape in which they were written in his diary.

in his assertion of it he has imitated the owner of a forest who assured a lumberman that his trees were

Freeman to use in his essay on the peculiarities of American speech.

We were all glad to know that the statement was wrong although as the time passed and I had an opportunity

despised—or if it happens to escape that fate is overtaken by a still worse one, in being lauded as if it were

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

He has the American vice of smartness & flippancy. I do not think you would care for the piece.

of an item I saw in the Critic here, last evening as I rode up in the street cars, stating that you were

But they were all wrong—it was an engorged liver, which the battery relieved instanter, and the lady

This post card is addressed: J H Johnston | Jeweler | 150 Bowery | New York City.

putting in identity of the wayside itemizings, memoranda and personal notes of 50 years under modern American

(To city man, or some sweet parlor lady, I now talk.)

The others surrender'd; the odds were too great.)

The rebels were driven out in a very short time.

You Russians and we Americans!

As of December 1, 1882, 4,900 copies of Leaves of Grass had been printed, of which 3,118 were sold.

Only 1,000 copies of Specimen Days were printed and 925 copies sold; the return to Whitman was $203.50

identity of the wayward itemizings, memoranda, and personal notes of fifty years, under modern & American

those passions, joys, workings &c in all the race , at least as shown under modern & especially American

stoppage and never can be stoppage, If I, you, and the worlds, and all beneath or upon their surfaces, Were

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

Riley and Bathgate were friends of Ruskin (see Whitman's letter to Riley of March 18, 1879 and his letter

I will try to get the "American Queen" ("spell it with an a," as I once heard Horace Mann say sarcastically

"American Queen" of yesterday— W W Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 17 September [1882]

No copy of the New York American Queen has been located.

from the modern Athens he now appears undimmed and, it is to be hoped, victorious in the neighbor city

professor of English literature at Columbia University from 1892 to 1924, included the poem in Poems of American

I wish I were not so driven with work, and felt well.

We had a fine voyage over, such the American sun & climate in mid-ocean—clean, bright, hot, a sea of

I had a jolly game of tennis on their lawn,—a lawn such as you Americans dont don't dream of!!

As we were all roped together—two guides and ourselves, he was extricated without much damage.

and come thundering down into the valley, hurling huge fragments & splinters into the air as if they were

Goldsmith estimated that only fifty copies of this "edition" were issued (Clara Barrus, Whitman and Burroughs—Comrades

Hugo's protest against the disapprobation of those French critics whose conventional imaginations were

very much disturbed by the astonishing leaps through time and space that were made by this untrammelled

"I assert that all fast days were what they must have been, And that they could no-how have been better

than what they were, And that to-day is what it must be, and that America is, And that to-day and America

Aug 12 188 2 My dear Walt— Nine years ago, I delivered before a German Society of New York City a lecture

on American literature, in which a great deal was said about you.

I have been staying here for a week, and shall leave in two or three days: but back in the city about

literary folk will be glad that Walt Whitman has found his publisher, and that the interests of American

This book is an American classic. [Leaves of Grass By Walt Whitman. Philadelphia, Rees, Welsh & Co.

On August 27 he wrote to O'Connor that Rees Welsh & Co. were "paying out their 3d edition."

Further publication of Walt Whitman's collected poems having been interdicted in Boston, the plates were

Rees Welsh & Co., of Philadelphia, whose advance orders exceeded their first edition, a copy of which

'81, (herewith enclosed) you tallied all my several copyrights for " Leaves of Grass "— except the 1860

is endorsed: "Aug 1 '82 | sent to Librarian of Congress | ans'd—see note | copyright entrance of | 1860

On August 2, 1882, Spofford, the Librarian of Congress, acknowledged that the 1860 edition had been entered

Whitman is an American Naturalist, quite as reckless as Zola or Maupassant, but withal infinitely less

The chief difference between the American Naturalist and his ultra-Atlantic brethren, is that he does

Whitman has fully equalled, if not exceeded the extant writers of antiquity, and has used phraseology

cautious printed only 1000) began to come in from the bindery late that day—Early this forenoon they were

versed, I am well satisfied with R W & Co. and my prospect with them—Though Thursday & Friday last were

ardently believing in your book, "fresh, vehement and true," as Thomas Davis says the Irish guard were

On June 29 O'Connor informed Whitman that Ingersoll and he were drawing up a memorandum for the Postmaster

B. secures the American copyright A royalty of to be paid Dr B.

Rees Welsh & Co. agreed to Whitman's terms on June 21 with two stipulations: they were unwilling to accept

Thoreau, he said, was equally, or nearly equally, strong in favor of Leaves of Grass, and so were the

I am very glad you have written these clear strong words for the North American.

The "Carlyls" as the Scotch call them were a numerous race in this section.

They were a stern savage set, not to be trifled with. One old Scotchman said they were "bullies."

You would have a good time if you were to come.

affection & interest—only I saw such obstacles in the way, & foresaw such dangers to liberty if it were

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

Bagenal, in his book The American Irish (London, 1882), 220–221, discusses the schism among the various

We were conquered and taken as captives, to work on the slowly raised tumuli.

To the mines at the north were we driven in summer; There, scourged every day, we toiled side by side

fires were kindled atop the alter-topped mound; You and I, captives and slaves, were the off'rings;

To the flames were we given, we youths who had suffered together.

We looked at each other, we two who were suffering together.

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

He was the author of many books and articles on German-American affairs and was superintendent of German

See The American-German Review, 8 (December, 1946), 27–30.

In 1883, Knortz was living in New York City.

When Mr Whitman was in Boston in 1860 Emerson was his frequent & cordial visitor.

evidently thinks that if the author of Leaves of Grass had any case to state, that walk on the common in 1860

Though Emerson's points were of the highest and keenest order, they sprang exclusively from conventional

Boston, 1881), 233–234; but it was obvious that Cooke's remarks about the relations between the two men were

us—perhaps I—will have the grand closing word, solemn as life, copious as the tempest, in the North American

We were to celebrate the occasion on the 31 st of this month, but college harness held some of us too

Willson, Box Dep't Gen'l P.O., New York City. John G. Willson to Walt Whitman, 29 May 1882