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Buxton Forman since it was among letters to Forman and Ernest Rhys which were acquired by the Berg Collection

This letter is addressed: Lorenz Reich | 63 East 11th street | New York City.

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

Charles Sprague Sargent (1841–1927) was an American botanist.

Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851–1934) was an influential American architectural critic.

Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908) was an American professor of art and a literary critic.

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

Manhattan beer cellar (located at 647 Broadway) that Whitman frequented in the late 1850s and the early 1860s

Boston friends were raising money to buy a summer cottage they hoped would improve Whitman's failing

This letter is addressed: Proprietor | Westminster Hotel | Irving Place | New York City.

" 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

better come here yet, you really must not remain in Camden all Summer—I do wish it was settled that you were

to leave there soon and where you were going, it must be getting very warm with you—here it is cool

Boston friends were raising money to buy a summer cottage they hoped would improve Whitman's failing

bracing, yet not sufficiently frigid to cause discomfort; the circumstances of the public generally were

Does not the Convenience of the Citizens of Brooklyn Demand the Continued Running of the City Railroad

Consolidated Brooklyn, an immense city, or rather union of cities, sprawled out in different directions

We are not some little country village; we form one of the great cities of the earth.

The City cars are needed for this convenience.

were unfortunately caught napping at the onset.

The American edition of Blackwood is published by Messre Leonard Scott & Co., 79 Fulton street, New York

speaks thus of the terrible privations which the filibuster force must have undergone before they were

Dogs, cats and other animals were sometimes killed to furnish a novelty.

It is estimated that during two years, of 2,500 men enlisted or holding commissions, about 1,000 were

killed or died of their wounds or sickness, about 700 deserted, 250 were discharged, 435 were at Rivas

The club is organised on the principle of the Union, National, and other clubs of New York city.

universal genius of this establishment happens to be absent; but to follow such an example, in daily city

The Aldermen of New York city are the last persons who should denounce the State Legislature as criminal

of placing the government of that city in purer hands than those who hold it now.

It has been charged by the opponents of the new laws that they were passed by the Legislature in order

to punish New York city for its vote for Buchanan.

not guided solely by party motives, nor did they seek to "punish" the cities for holding a different

There is no part of the city so greatly in need of improvement, both sanitary and pecuniary, as that

of itself; but all the efforts than can be made are required to improve the central portion of the city

The U.S. government are but doing tardy justice to the city of Brooklyn, in filling up this “miasmatic

Gymnasium in South 4th street, last evening, was attended by a large number of ladies and gentlemen, who were

The exercises were opened by a short address from one of the members, explanatory of the position and

The members of the Turnverein of this city followed with a variety of feats and performances on the single

Pierce of this City, Mr. Vanbleck of California, and others, whose names we did not learn.

Pierce’s performance on the hanging ropes, were some of the best gymnastic exercises we ever witnessed

seem to point—and all the little stipendiaries of the Administration party (such as the Eagle of this city

The Jersey Telegraph probably will again hoist his name to its mast-head as the candidate for 1860.

Maclay in keeping Free Kansas out of the Union until she has double the population necessary to admit

Maclay by the Administration presses, that while the seats of other Lecompton members were in doubt,

Senators Dickinson, Norris and others also apologized for their pro-slavery course by making out they were

territorial condition, there to remain, according to the provision of the English bill, until her population

In this and the neighboring city, we have seen how Legislatures will interfere with local affairs, even

under the Constitution; what would they hesitate at doing, if a precedent were established in Kansas

violated directly it is established; for the very essence of Popular Sovereignty would be destroyed, were

seems as if the “demoralization and decay” which some of the newspapers are continually prating about were

physical disabilities on her part, deliberately committed adultery, after seeing to it that witnesses were

of collusion, he persuaded her to enter into a conspiracy to make it appear as though she herself were

Soon, the city will begin to fill up, and the fashionables, who are even now beginning to find their

, sea bathing, etc., are made, at present, altogether too inaccessible to the great bulk of our population

with its bracing air and healthful breezes, business and professional men who have retired from the city

in the ranks of the Democratic party; for Douglas cannot afford to lose the support of the South in 1860

the North had rendered him unavailable as a candidate; and that if he wishes for better success in 1860

He threw out the bogus returns, as it appears from his own statements, not so much because they were

wishes to shape his course so as to avoid damaging his prospects for the Presidential nomination of 1860

Pierce and Senator Douglas were working like beavers for the Cincinnati nomination, flattering themselves

honor; while the old stagers who had been log rolling for years to obtain a heavy Northern support, were

Two sites for the proposed building have been suggested close to the City Hall.

the territory, at least of renewed convulsion and agitation on the everlasting slavery question, exceeding

friendly solution between the Federal Government and the other powers who claim an interest in Central American

It is feared by Douglas that either Secretary Cobb, or the President himself, has an eye on 1860; and

Fun “Out West” FUN “OUT WEST” If one wants to study the oddities, peculiarities, and “splurges” of American

paper of high standing, published in New York, stated only the other day that it did not believe there were

ten merchants in that city who were not more or less given to stock-gambling—that the literary profession

the Common Council, we are now in possession of the exact terms of the proposition to be made to the city

close their communication by reiterating their hope and belief that the first supply of water to the city

Miss Beecher, in her popular work on physiology, laments the general decay of health among American women

She says, and truly, according to our own experience, that a healthy American female is rapidly becoming

The great trouble with our people—especially “city men,” merchants, lawyers, professional and business

in the rich valleys of the interior, to balance the wicked waste of nerve and tissue in our great cities

remark, in speaking of the decay of health in metropolitan life,—“I should despair of my country, if it were

here; for literally every one went from both districts of this city to the other side of the river.

The cars, the ferry boats, the City Hall, all the public and many private buildings, were decorated by

of population, the day might have been almost mistaken for Sunday.

As the morning advanced, crowds of another character were on the move.

who are residents of Brooklyn, and who were about to join their respective corps.

Wortendyke , the Opposition and Democratic candidates for Congress in Jersey city, intend stumping their

perverted, and falsehoods and misrepresentations indulged in, which the speakers would not dare to utter, were

But if both sides of the question were calmly discussed in his hearing, the elector would have an opportunity

labor his hardest to make them more bigoted and one-sided in their views of public affairs, than they were

And, if they were aware that their standard bearers would have to pass through the ordeal of public discussion

There seems to be a disposition on the part of the American people to enquire into the Foreign policy

The justice of a claim of an American citizen against a Foreign power has had no influence at Washington

relative to the contemplated sale of Guyana to England for the purpose of crushing out the claims of American

has completed the report called for by a resolution of Senator Benjamin, relative to the claims of American

The time is rapidly approaching when the American people will adopt a foreign policy which will be effectual

All the mental deformities and intellectual monstrosities of the Union were there collected—the strong

minded women, the half crazy advocates of every fanatic ism, were out in full force.

In France, we are told, from 1836 to 1852 inclusive, there were 52,126 suicides, or a mean of 3066 a

In great cities the proportion of suicides is far larger than in the country districts.

associations of this character, consisted of recitations, an essay, and a discussion, all of which were

The Spanish American Republics THE SPANISH AMERICAN REPUBLICS.

abroad, before we attempt the acquisition of any Territory belonging to any of the Central or South American

Are we willing to take the population of Central America, uneducated as they are, and unfit to judge

Our own people do not seem to know that this is the population that we must take with the Central American

We do not think that we are prepared to annex the Central American republics to this confederacy.

The new project should not be, either, as too many of our American Literary Institutions are, solely

Possibly the London quack, who, according to the Journal , is an American and therefore “all-fired smart

We learn from our medical authority also, that this “hale and hearty American,” so far from having his

Hemp” man’s “sands of life,” by introducing to his jugular a good-sized rope made from the best of American

American edition. New York: Leonard Scott & Co., 79 Fulton street.

with great interest, on account of the article which it contains on the “Manifest Destiny of the American

The mistake which this reviewer falls into, in common with nine-tenths of the European writers on American

The American Association for the Advancement of Science is in session at Montreal.

assembled at Montreal, aided by all the lights of modern discovery and nineteenth century civilisation, were

Suppose 40 messages came, and only 24 were sent, here are 16 to take precedence of those going next day

.— A prize fight occurred yesterday afternoon, in a field back of Hudson City, some two or three miles

this side to remain in ignorance for a month of the condition of the Cable, while regular reports were

It seems to us as if the American public had been hoaxed about the Cable.

do not mean to deny that the Cable was laid in the first instance, and that intelligible messages were

Two American Sailors in a Spanish Dungeon TWO AMERICAN SAILORS IN A SPANISH DUNGEON.

At the end of twelve hourse we took the hatches off and 270 of the coolies were dead.

We were obliged to do as we did to preserve our own lives and save the ship.

The American Consul refusing to take cognizance of the case, our wages due from the ship were paid to

It is so full of truths that it stares every American in the face who has ever been abroad.

[Adventures and Achievements of Americans] ADVENTURES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF AMERICANS: A series of Narratives

Nearly 12,000 prisoners were poisoned, starved, or died of fever on board of these prison ships.

Those who where buried at the Wallabout were sewed in their blankets.

died, and were stripped before they were buried in the pits prepared for that purpose.

Many prisons were barbarously exiled to the East Indies for life."

People who were forced, for their sins, to preambulate the streets, became in about ten minutes, thoroughly

Clean shirts were a mockery and a delusion.

The theatres were played out. Ice-cream gardens did a heavy business.

sulphuric blasts of heated ether that gave them fits, whenever the dim retreats of the back office were

Eating-houses were dangerous for persons with weak stomachs to enter.