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yesterday in honor of the successful termination of the grand Telegraphic enterprise, was worthy of the city

throughout its length and breadth since the first few words from the Mother Country electrified the American

people, found vent yesterday in our city, in every possible form, from the interchange of kindly and

Suffice it to say, that the City has testified her appreciation of the perseverance, skill and energy

In our own District the people were wide-awake to the exigencies of the occasion, and manifested so far

that we look upon the prospect of this result with very great curiosity—or rather would look, if we were

publish specimens from a mythical newspaper which it denominated "The Bunkum Flagstaff" and which were

We were reminded of these "Bunkum" papers, last night, in listening to a preamble and resolutions concerning

A bit of pathos:—"Many a tear of remembrance will have been shed in this city to Captain Hudson, who

" Resolved , That Americans can rejoice (is it possible Mr. D?

Hall in this city."

They were brimming over with excitement and enthusiasm, and the cold formal message of the lady who is

world does move, though,” said Gallileo Galileo , after his forced retraction of the heresies, as they were

Rothschild, one of the firm of world-celebrated Bankers, was lately accepted by Parliament from the city

Only think of the Queen arriving, in the midst of a fleet of vessels, one of these fine American days

The New York Times of this morning says: If this were the case, the fact ought to be officially announced

We were all so exultant at first that perhaps the delay that has been experienced has unduly chilled

the enterprise, it affected to discredit the news, and attempted to make it appear that if the news were

On Saturday, when the great tidings were fully confirmed, and the whole country was palpitating with

Then the city of New York will enjoy the commercial superiority which is disputed by other cities.

Moore, were reported as nuisances, being filled with stagnant water.

A number of lots similarly situated in other parts of the city were also reported and referred to the

The bone-boiling establishment in the Ninth Ward were again complained of, as causing an intolerable

The days are an hour and a half shorter than they were, when at the longest.

From its elevated position, you stretch your eye over a vast expanse of land and water; you see the city

That such a spirit is unfortunately prevalent in our large cities, and we refer more particularly to

New York streets are almost as dangerous to travel at night as if there were no city government at all

, and the place were given up to the tender mercies of prowling marauders and assassins.

An idea has gotten possession of this class that laws were made like promises and pie-crusts, for the

We were sorry to see so small an attendance at the meeting for the benefit of the poor, last evening,

under consideration, to develop their plans prematurely, but the gentlemen composing the committee were

, as one of them expressed it, “not to be bluffed off”—and we think they were sustained by the body of

Wall in this connection were sensible and apposite, and will doubtless have their due weight with the

The list of contributors includes some twenty or thirty of the standard names of American literature,

Others are among the mottos; such, for instance, as those put, on Wednesday, in front of our City Hall—trumpet-words

No woman can be expected to part with a constituent of her nature, though all masculine-dom were to set

In the great city of New York there are thousands of vile haunts where innocence is robbed of its bloom

Haslam (1842–1892), called "Lou" or "Loo," married George Washington Whitman in spring 1871, and they were

1884, when George and Louisa moved to a farm outside of Camden and Whitman decided to stay in the city

Nash were old Washington friends of Whitman and Doyle.

correspondence with William Sloane Kennedy (1850–1929), who at this time was on the staff of the Philadelphia American

, and who later published biographies of Longfellow and Whittier (Dictionary of American Biography).

December 29, Whitman wrote to Charles Eldridge that "Song of the Redwood Tree" and "Prayer of Columbus" were

Whitman's dealings with Trübner & Co. were handled through Josiah Child.

sent Whitman $7.57 in payment for copies of Democratic Vistas, and noted that 61 copies of that work were

was on the mend—I still hold my own & consider myself recuperating—I hope you will meet my young American

See also Emma Hardinge, Modern American Spiritualism (New York, 1870), 149.

His aims were noble, his heart a deep beautiful true Poet's heart, but he had not the Poet's great brain

And I knew this was true, felt as if my nature were poor & barren beside his.

If God were to say to me—see—"he that you love you shall not be given to in this life—he is going to

May & June I was longing so inexpressibly to write I resolutely restrained myself, believing if I were

But it has been very bitter & hateful to me this not standing to what I have said as it were, with my

Dear Cyril Flower, You may think yourself neglected—perhaps forgotten—by your American friend.

Your two letters from England duly reached me at the times, & were very welcome.

Ellis replied on August 23, 1871: since there were poems in Leaves of Grass which "would not go down

invitation to deliver an appropriate original poem at the opening of the 40th Annual Exhibition of the American

Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to the Committee on Invitations, American

The Committee of the American Institute had written on August 1, 1871, "to solicit of you the honor of

in Camden (1906–1996), 1:328–329; Emory Holloway, Whitman–An Interpretation in Narrative (1926), American

Since the press had not reported his speech before the American Institute sympathetically (see Whitman's

August 5, 1871 letter to the American Institute), Walt Whitman wanted Swinton, who was no longer editor

Department of Justice Washington sent Sept. 17, 18 71 I send herewith the copy of my American Institute

Send the revised proofs to me by mail, directed to this city, and I will promptly return them.

I have no authority to speak for them, but I think the American Institute will want several hundred copies

say to yourself "perhaps this is the voice of my mate" & would seek me a little to make sure if it were

in vain for a letter—O the anguish at times, the scalding tears, the feeling within as if my heart were

Whitman in Camden [1906–1996], 4:208), he felt that "somehow when [Harte] went to London the best American

Louis Interviews of Walt Whitman," American Literature, 14.2 (May 1942), 146.

Dear William O'Connor: As you were interested in Mr.

. | Washington City." Its postmark is indecipherable.

Involved according to Whitman were the "venom, jealousies, opacities…[of] a woman" (3:235–236), probably

James Parton (1822–1891) was a journalist and, according to the Dictionary of American Biography, "the

Allen, The Solitary Singer (New York: Macmillan Co., 1955), 209–210; Frank Luther Mott, A History of American

do you know (perhaps you do,) how the hard, pungent, gritty, worldly experiences & qualities in American

books of mine—writing this note to introduce them—and taking permission to personally offer, as it were

The photograph, inscribed "To Walt Whitman | the poet of the american democracy," is in the Charles E

Schmidt's letter "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he left Denmark in 1860

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

and was the second of Whitman's poems to appear in the magazine; "Bardic Symbols" was published in 1860

Philp and Solomon were Washington booksellers.

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

in the New York Weekly Tribune on August 21, 1867; sections five to ten and half of section eleven were

You might do well to put in about my intended appearance before the American Institute, at its 40th opening

Walt Whitman read "After All, Not to Create Only" before the American Institute on September 7, 1871,

Most of Whitman's communications with Doyle were written on post cards.

and was the second of Whitman's poems to appear in the magazine; "Bardic Symbols" was published in 1860

(For more on "Bardic Symbols," see Whitman's January 20, 1860 letter to James Russell Lowell and Whitman's

March 2, 1860 letter to the editor of the Atlantic Monthly.)

He speaks it over and over, manipulating my body unconciouslyunconsciously, as it were, with bountiful

The Republican publishers of the Washington Daily Morning Chronicle in 1868 were offering to new subscribers

I have not charged the copies of other books besides L. of G. as the sales were slight.

There is beginning to be a steady, though moderate demand for my books, & if there were a good & permanent

O'Connor of March 24, 1867, reprinted in American Literature, 23 (1951), 326.

—none in Boston—none in Washington—whatever you were "told"—none anywhere in America.

A hundred copies were sent by me to England about a year & a half ago.

Piper & Co. were Boston booksellers.

edition of Leaves of Grass; see Trowbridge's letter to O'Connor on March 24, 1867, reprinted in American

of work (inspecting pipe, manufactured here at the foundries for Water Works, & Sewers, northern cities