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5 East 65th Street New York City Evn'g Evening Aug August 3d 3rd Your postal of 29th rec'd received —

Richard Maurice Bucke and Thomas Nicholson in Jersey City on July 23, and went to Woodside, Long Island

On August 1 he went to New York City, where he stayed with Edgar M.

It is now some two years ago since your poems were first brought under my notice (by my friend Mr A.

This postal card is addressed: Wm Carey | Century office Union Square | New York City.

Harry's parents, George (1827–1892) and Susan Stafford (1833–1910), were tenant farmers at White Horse

Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden—though it does appear frequently in the last three volumes, which were

what occurr'd—If convenient tell me— Ab't About the London Times ' comments on Mr Bryant's death (American

Putnam's Sons, 1902], 5:214–215), which appeared as "The Poetry of the Future" in The North American

an extra bad spell & forbidden to go out nights this weather— Please give my hearty salutation & American

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

28 (1885) Dear friend Thank you & dear Alys for the nice sheets & cases, which arrived yesterday, were

Logan and Alys were Mary's siblings.

These libations, ecstatic life-pourings as it were of precious wine or rose - water on vast desert sands

or great polluted river—taking chances for returns or no returns —what were they (or are they) but the

The British Quarterly Review for October contained an article on "American Poets" in which Whitman, according

This is upon the general subject of a needed American Literature, in the highest sense , & of our imaginative

Grier, "Walt Whitman, the Galaxy, and Democratic Vistas," American Literature, 23 (1951–1952), 332–350

Executive Committee Contemporary Club: I propose the name of Thomas B Harned, Counsellor at Law, of this city

off their friendship in late 1872 over Reconstruction policies with regard to emancipated African Americans

off their friendship in late 1872 over Reconstruction policies with regard to emancipated African Americans

Moncure Conway (1832–1907) was a Unitarian minister who lived in England from the 1860s until 1885, where

Ewart, of New York City, it is probable that this note accompanied the volumes (Charles E.

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

Silver, American Literature, 15 (1943), 51–62.

89 Walt Whitman Esq Dear Sir I have rec d . with very great pleasure the copy of yr. works w h you were

the hope that yr. days may yet "be long in the land" to whose literature you have given the true American

I wish you could have seen how deeply attentive they were and how moved by "Out of the Cradle" "To Think

of Chelsea, Massachusetts, began his career as a journalist with the Savannah Daily News in the mid-1860s

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

William Dean Howells (1837–1920) was the novelist and "Dean of American Letters" who wrote The Rise of

I thought it but fair that he should print an authentic report he has printed so many that were not true

Walsh (1854–1919) was an American author and editor of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

off (make or break) on a long jaunt west—have been to the Rocky Mountains (2000 miles) and Denver city

Garland's return address is printed on the envelope as follows: HAMLIN GARLAND | Teacher English & American

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

Traubel left behind enough manuscripts for six more volumes of the series, the final two of which were

of the New York Nation and Harper's Magazine during the mid 1860s.

In an Ashtabula Sentinel review of the 1860 edition Leaves of Grass, Howells wrote, "If he is indeed

Probably the repetitions in this draft were eliminated in the version that was sent.

The Lay family were renting Whitman's Camden home when he bought it, and they stayed there for a month

This postal card is addressed: Herbert Gilchrist | 112 Madison Av: | New York City.

— —In the Feb: February N A North American Review there is a piece of mine about Poetry (a good many

Charles Allen Thorndike Rice (1851–1889) purchased The North American Review in 1876.

This postal card is addressed: Miss Jeannette Gilder | Critic office | 743 Broadway | New York City.

is referring to his lecture entitled "The Death of Abraham Lincoln," which he delivered in New York City

He was also secretary of the American Philosophical Society from 1858 to 1885.

His daughters were Margaret White Lesley Bush-Brown and Mary Lesley Ames (both mentioned in Whitman's

prohibits colored persons, either slave or free, from entering the State—making an exclusively white population

No, not if there were the shadow of a hope that battling against this prejudice will ever succeed in

Yet we believe there is enough material in the colored race, if they were in some secure and ample part

Legislature may appoint such a police, and rest there in their decision, the conflict between the city

authorizing the substitution of the Metropolitan for the Municipal police; or in surrendering the city

Nor would the Comptroller be justified in paying any city money to such Metropolitan policemen.

He seems to aim at nothing less than the establishment of an imperium in imperio —a metropolitan city

His organ tells us on this point— "We believe that under our new State constitution, the city of New

Our readers are doubtless informed ere this of the occurrences which yesterday converted the City Hall

The curse of American politics—especially in municipal and State affairs—is that men love their party

and as each of these powers contributed to rule Europe, and Europe was said to rule the world, these were

Our companies arrived on Wednesday morning in fine spirits and were warmly welcomed by their brother

Marion Hose Co. were received by Washington Hose of that city; No. 1 was received by No. 10 and No. 4

On their return this morning they were met at their landing in New York by No. 9, of this District, with

marched through some of the principal streets, and while passing through Nassau, Engines 9 and 4 who were

their yellow pages, we see in their dingy type the forms and phrases of persons and things as they were

It would be hard to say what were the St.

are three or four notices of coffee houses—a term now almost out of use in New York—and one of the City

Among other things we noticed were the names of streets now obsolete or that have been re-baptized.

The Patent Medicines were not yet in all their glory, but those who wanted to poison themselves with

elected Governor, Rollins, may have gone by, it is plain that he was not elected upon the issue of Americanism

His centiments sentiments in regard to the probably extinction of slavery in the State, were such that

The existence of large cities like St.

Such cities can be built up, and their prosperity created, only by free labor. St.

Louis would never have been the enterprising growing city that it is, but for the constant steams steams

One would suppose the Kansian population to be a subject race, serfs, villeins—and their high and mighty

whether it be submitted to the inhabitants of that territory for their fiat, the great cause of American

But if slavery is put through under Buchanan, as it was under Pierce, the radical revolution in American

there—to be reprobated all over the North and West—and to be barred out indignantly from all fresh American

office, in Iowa, resulted in severe accidents to several persons, and more than a thousand claimants were

Walker essentially a Southerner,) that is pleasingly fitted for directing and governing the American

We contend he is not only an American “representative man,” but a great original—just as great in his

Barnum’s plans were so vast! even his humbug had sublimity!

Those who were present at the German fete , yesterday, at Myrtle avenue Park, in which the Williamsburgh

convivial and friendly talk with each other, or invested their spare cash at the tempting booths that were

proceeding to Peck Slip ferry to receive their guests, of whom a large number are expected from other cities

Taft, of Greenpoint, and a large and handsome banner will be presented to the Williamsburgh City Horse

opened for the first time on Monday evening, when a Ball will be given there under the patronage of the City

Republicans are succesful, they will reject the apportionment referred to, and so arrange the voting population

voted for the Wilmot Proviso, and that in 1858, to the great disgust not only of the Republican and American

in Kansas affairs, he would have retired from power, receiving that homage and respect which the American

The Democratic members of the 35th Congress were elected on the platform of principles enunciated by

That bill, which in effect declared that Kansas had population sufficient to be admitted as a State with

Maclay, notwithstanding that, before his votes were given, a Committee of Congress appointed to visit

Vanderbilt and Bradley Standing Committees, their respective supporters in the wards and towns of the City

So far as we have heard, the elections were unattended by any disturbances.

In this he might yet succeed, were he re-elected to the Senate; hence the persistent daily warfare of

making billiard-tables, the enormous number of rooms where tables are let out for hire in every populous

the number of establishments one sees along our principal thoroughfares, and we believe that our American

hundreds of lives are lost by criminal rashness and carelessness—now it is the fall of a building in the city

The Health of the City THE HEALTH OF THE CITY.

Last year, at this time, it will be remembered we were all talking about yellow-fever, and though by

good luck and the proverbial advantages possessed by our city in consequence of its healthful location

themselves to be so absorbed by their private griefs as to neglect in any manner the interests of the city

Cleveland’s report would make but 79 deaths in the city for the past seven days, full fifty less than