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And again said, "If we were in the way of feeling flattered, this magazine would spoil us."

1891Dear Traubel,Your note of Nov 18. followed me all about into Kansas, Neb, and now returns to this city

but Walt is one of the number, & by request of the minister (who doesn't like L. of G.) his books were

Leaned over and kissed him: I could feel a slight return: then glided out.Down on the floor were the

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

That is what you were going to say?"

tread onto this dust which Miss Gilder could not forget—this dust, which made her forget that you were

And that social pressure, the life of the big cities, threatens everyone with the same fate."

City editor of Times speaks to Clifford of W. as "a chestnut and a humbug."

This feeling extended not only in a great city like New York, but beyond—for instance, out through the

cities of the state (I saw lots of it!)

say, that though I haven't any theory in the matter you can't hit a landlord too often, Irish or American

, and if you hit and don't hear my amen that's because I didn't see what you were about."

W. seriously: "There were the Fenians, yes: God knows they didn't come too soon or without a reason."

But I guess it would not do for me to go in at the city on high tide—in the full swim—no!

In reply to various questions from me, he said: "Yes—I suppose the pictures were a success—I inferred

Buckwalter and one for you—if not others—but he said he didn't know that he could allow me many—as they were

Howells is striking a new note in fiction, and is giving to American literature its most marvellous presentation

the Judge, who, having heard one witness who was certain he had not seen a thing, and a dozen who were

Most of the editors, in spite of this exhibit, were dead agin me—some even violently so: I ought to know

There were exceptions—maybe I should have turned this over to you as a batch of exceptions."

I asked W.: "What were the poems?"

You're getting in the habit of taking the best things right out of my mouth and saying them as if they were

When the war broke out, there were some of us in Washington—O'Connor, Burroughs (I think), others—all

All the Tories, aristocrats, snobs, cockneys, were against us then—the group of our friends was very

Now he said, "Warrie was down to Atlantic City on Sunday—came up yesterday morning.

I confess when he told me this many of my first impressions were sent flying or at least thrown into

"For a few minutes—en route to Atlantic City."

And then after shaking hands, "I came down last night, too, for a little while, after you were here.

I used to know the wharves in New York—they were—many of them—horrible ramshackles, almost ready to tumble

Drawn to say something, laughingly, about Tennyson's detection of Bucke in "Americanisms."

W. merrily contended, "Doctor is an American anyway—his spirit is ours, not British. Oh!

Perhaps it is as you say—stronger, more probable, for not being so strong"—which were my words.

"I am entirely done with them: they greatly satisfy me—though I don't know that I am the one they were

Charles Aldrich of Webster City, Iowa, many letters and scraps of letters, postcards, etc., bearing the

Had laid out on the bed copy of the Boston Herald, Sunday, containing editorial "American Poets."

kicks and cuffs were mostly our portion."

The Smith girls were cuter—they forwarded my letter several days before, with it some word—modest enough

There were "essential things" which were "primary to the study of 'Leaves of Grass,'" among them "these

My little books were beginnings—they were the ground into which I dropped the seed.

Everybody in Washington wanted to think well of Jackson—I with the rest—and we were inclined to the very

nothing from Lige Jackson punished him by making him walk the ten miles to Richmond while the others were

It always struck me in the War, how honest and direct the private soldiers were—how superior they were

Lee had great qualities his own but these were the greatest.

point: Why is it that Whitman's vociferous English public fails to see that the "representative American

Hawthorne, Whittier, Webster, Calhoun, John Brown, Jefferson Davis, even William Miller and Joseph Smith, were

No, I look upon it as a feast gone—the bread, meat, corn, wine were here once—now all are swept away,

I urgently inquired if there were not other things he wished, but could not get him to say more than,

One more utterance from our old original individualistic American poet, now, as he tells us, in his seventy-second

year, and not expecting to write any more; this, indeed, written as it were in defiance of augury.

Sent me some proofs to Bank by Warren today—but I brought them all back, as the directions sent along were

Walt just about what I wrote you and I do not understand [if] it is in reply to my letter (which you were

He said: "As ex-president Hayes and I were coming up Wall Street in the crowd a man rose up before me

I quoted a review of Florian's Montaigne: " 'Myselfe am the groundworke of my booke': such were the Whitmanesque

I have heard somewhere there were volumes of them."

An absurd article turned up in the North American—signed Fred Dayton—copyrighted by the American Press

"Let's use the North American Review as a sample. That paper strikes me favorably."

I asked him if his days were long—if one day did not often seem two.

He was elected to the Assembly from one of the districts of the city.

It is interesting, too: all these fellows were of foreign birth.

He had himself clipped a bit from an English paper commenting on the heroism of American sailors at Samoa

And when I spoke of America as "greater than any or all, her own or other that ever were conceived,"

Today I had an application from the American Press Association. What for? A specialty? Oh no!

Left with him a copy of the American containing Frank Williams' comment on the Contemporary Club meeting

Referring to pictures again—Tennyson's in the Illustrated American—"After all, your father's—the two—are

land and trust in her greatening future are only matched perhaps in the prophetic pages of the true American

concrete personage, but the essence—the idea back of ideas—through which conditions, events as they were

, were justified."

you know there were two of them: I speak of the elder."

It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers—every damned one of us—were sent off somewhere with

Your own words upon his death were very noble and touching.

I first wrote them a notice of his Journal just published, which they were pleased to say was too good

My dear Walt Whitman:In London last week I met many mutual friends who were asking after you and wondering

The news of the great Democratic victories has just reached us and all Paris—that is all American Paris—is

They were both of them homely, as facial judgments go—not ugly, to be sure—not even like Lincoln, who

Papers much occupied with invasion of Lower California by American raiders who try to annex it.

once, "No indeed—and especially now, after the affair of his big book, in which he has set up as we were

were wholly pleasant."

Discussion of policy of American journalism: that it will sacrifice truth for interest.

Walt at once inquired if the windows were open—learning that they were, was satisfied.I had received

Oh, what scenes of human horror were to be found in this city last winter.

The note is below:"Go on, my dear Americans, whip your horses to the utmost—Excitement; money!

And he swelt upon the joy of those early days in his own life "when stage-people were my daily bread"

Thayer has a special Italo-American knowledge—perhaps such knowledge as Brinton would enjoy rubbing against

I see in Bob the noblest specimen—American-flavored—pure out of the soil, spreading, giving, demanding

published in The North American Review.

published in New York in 1888 by the journal's editor Charles Allen Thorndike Rice and The North American

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

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

revised, partial draft of A Memorandum at a Venture, first published in the June 1882 issue of North American

.— For the city or state to become the general guardian or overseer and dry nurse of a man, and point

A True American A TRUE AMERICAN. The Albany Journal says: “Robert J.

That Walker carried himself so well, and came out with credit, proves him a true American in spirit.

AMERICAN, EUROPEAN AND ORIENTAL LITERARY AGENCY. 57. & 59. Ludgate Hill. London E.C.

modern or ancient times, the duty which the State owes to the rising generation who form part of the population

In the large cities there are many children, some deprived of parental care, and others neglected by

mental capacity to attend the public schools, shall be found wandering in the streets or lanes of any city

occupation, any justice of the peace, police magistrates or justices of the district courts in the city

The Protestant American people of Kings County will regard with indignation this attempt on the part

Trowbridge met Whitman for the first time in Boston in 1860 when the poet was preparing the third edition

Along with Briggs, Triggs organized the first Whitman dinner at the Men's City Club in Los Angeles, which

CarlSmeller"Trickle Drops" (1860)"Trickle Drops" (1860)This poem was originally published, without its

present opening line, as number 15 in the "Calamus" cluster of the 1860 Leaves of Grass.

lexical conversion of "leaves" of grass into knife-like "blades" in "Scented Herbage of My Breast" (1860

Walt Whitman's Manuscripts: "Leaves of Grass" (1860). Ed. Fredson Bowers.

"Trickle Drops" (1860)

slow drops, Candid, from me falling—drip, bleeding drops, From wounds made to free you whence you were

slow drops, Candid from me falling, drip, bleeding drops, From wounds made to free you whence you were

slow drops, Candid from me falling, drip, bleeding drops, From wounds made to free you whence you were

slow drops, Candid, from me falling—drip, bleeding drops, From wounds made to free you whence you were

He did stay in Boston from 15 March until 13 May 1860 to oversee the printing of the 1860 edition.Having

There they explored the city for a day, boarding at the American Temperance hotel.The next day they took

His railroad pass and most expenses were included.

The next day the five travelers boarded a train for Kansas City.

They were met at the station by a committee from the Quarter Centennial, and were escorted to Lawrence

The poetic suitor's advances were welcomed by some Americans, spurned by others, and ignored by most.

After the war's outbreak in April, Georgetown's Union Hotel and the City Infirmary on E Street were commandeered

Sketch of the City Infirmary.

Carver, Cliffburne, Finley, Emory, and Campbell were built as Army barracks but were converted by the

Consequently, the structures were raised off the ground on cedar posts, and the wards were generously

His original goal had been to bring out one volume a year until all were in print, but the final two

volumes did not appear until 1996, over a century after they were written. 

poet as a dutiful son: he became the most active of Whitman's three literary executors (the other two were

Artsman from 1903 to 1907, espousing the belief that radical reforms in art, design, and production were

stands; Let judges and criminals be transposed—let the prison-keepers be put in prison—let those that were

stands; Let judges and criminals be transposed—let the prison-keepers be put in prison—let those that were

reception introduction • 3 of Whitman had a remarkable impact on the American one.

For example, the first collection dedicated to American litera- ture in Italy, which came out in 1884

simple because they were strong—they were great because they were healthy.”

Another case in this sense is that of the poem “City of Orgies.”

For Walt, through Naturism, even American democracy became an expressive problem.

In the 1860 Leaves , the poem seems to draw its origins from two poems.

Indeed, if it were not for you, what would I be?

The Obermann Seminar participants were struck by the fact that the 1860 version of the poem had never

been translated into any of the languages we were examining.

We were struck too by the revealing admission of the fifth and sixth lines: "Indeed, if it were not for

American Literary History 16.1 (2004): 85–92. McGann, Jerome.

Whitman was not a transcendentalist, since transcendentalism was a New England phenomenon affecting American

The catalogues he so frequently inserted in his poems were catalogues of miracles.

In his eyes, all things were both physical and spiritual presences.

The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition.

American Renaissance. London: Oxford UP, 1941.Thoreau, Henry David.