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New York Tribune to say you were in Canada (not Camden) and intended to remain North some time: then

Even in his younger days, there is the best of evidence that his habits were correct, and his conversation

The "Amens" were uttered by a person immediately to the left of Mr.

Another: Not long since the Inquirer of this city published a lengthy article on cremation, giving interviews

elderly, full-bearded, gray haired artist has for years been frequenting the barrooms and hotels of this city

How he Commenced to Write and the Way his Works were Received.

"How did you know we were aboard the train?"

You may say, in fact, that with true American instinct I feel like lecturing.

"Thought you were throwing away your life, did they?" asked the doctor.

Legally, however, the blacks were slaves.

not quite suited for the expression of American democracy and American manhood.

The man, the American man, the laborer, boatman, and mechanic.

The great painters were as willing to paint a blacksmith as a lord.

How monotonous it would become—how tired the ears would get of it—if it were regular.

(Query—Why only American?) Bryant he likes.

wish you could know my dear friend Mrs Gilchrist & her family, now 5 Mount Vernon, Hampstead—they were

His trips "on the water" were confined to his rides on the ferry from Camden to Philadelphia.

I wish you had given me a line to say what you were doing, and how you were.

nature, I should have laughed at him—But I feel while reading you (not your book, but you) as though I were

pathetic and too familiar story of suffering and unfulfilled promise" (Representative Sonnets by American

think I will—she says "I have not felt it a 'new birth of the soul' merely , I felt that his poems were

On July 12, 1874, he wrote for the first time to Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground

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

An aspiring physician, Beatrice took the needed preparatory classes but was barred (as were all women

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

of countless squads of vagabond children, the hideousness and squalor of certain quarters of the cities

Revenue department at Washington, who is led by the course of his employment to regularly visit the cities

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

He found the average American in the United States' armies, under pressure of want, disease, danger,

If a motto were to be chosen for "The Two Rivulets," and for Walt Whitman generally, it should be that

of countless squads of vagabond children, the hideousness and squalor of certain quarters of the cities

Revenue department at Washington, who is led by the course of his employment to regularly visit the cities

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

He found the average American in the United States' armies, under pressure of want, disease, danger,

If a motto were to be chosen for "The Two Rivulets," and for Walt Whitman generally, it should be that

(See Artem Lozynsky, "Walt Whitman in Canada," American Book Collector 23 [July–August 1973], 21-23).

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

not suited for the expression of American democracy and American manhood.

The great painters were as willing to paint a blacksmith as a lord.

How monotonous it would become, how tired the ear would get of it, if it were regular!

"That any American woman should say, 'Ah, me!

It pleased him very much, yet the tears were in his eyes. He asked me if I enjoyed religion.

print any notes of my jaunt yet—I am well, considering— —Addington Symonds has sent me a copy of the American

Bathgate, to whom the books were sent on February 19 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E.

The second that this truth is asserted with an especial colour of American egotism which good English

Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library).

This letter is addressed: Charles W Post | Care of B D Buford & Co: | Kansas City | Missouri.

(New York: American News Company, 1867); "The Flight of the Eagle," Birds and Poets (Boston: Houghton

The second that this truth is asserted with an especial colour of American egotism which good English

Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library).

February 16, Whitman received from Ruskin £10 for five sets of books through Bathgate, to whom the books were

I wish one of those old red Market Ferry cars were going to land you at our door once more!

If I were American-born, I certainly should not want to change it for any country in the world, and if

tapestry—and his figures "Audrey & Touchstone" are very much admired & have been bought by a rich American

O I do long for a little American sunshine.

Were Jessie & Hattie at home in St. Louis, I wonder, when you were there? Love from us all.

An aspiring physician, Beatrice took the needed preparatory classes but was barred (as were all women

On July 12, 1874, he wrote for the first time to Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground

Mannahatta Whitman (1860–1886) was Walt Whitman's niece.

indeed that you have had such a "good time" in the west of the States, but it would be sad if you were

Chatto and Windus (of Piccadilly— London) have definitely answer'd the question as to whether they were

M Carpenter's copy of the book (1867) was pub d published by the American News Company, but I have seen

Thompson was a lawyer from London and member of the Middle Temple, one of the four Inns of Court of the city

On July 12, 1874, he wrote for the first time to Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground

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

The American News Company was a New York magazine—and later comic book—distribution company founded in

The American News Company published John Burroughs's Notes on Walt Whitman, as Poet and Person in 1867

And please do not write as if you were praising or blaming him, but set down, in the simplest and most

He is in love with Denver City, and speaks admiringly of Missouri and Indiana.

I wish one of those old red Market Ferry Cars were going to land you at our door once more!

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

in the essay "The Poetry of the Future" first published in the February 1881 issue of The North American

come the Peopleabout 1890prose1 leafhandwritten; A prose fragment that Whitman used in the essay, American

National Literature, first published in the North American Review in March 1891, under the title Have

The poem had been first published in The American in June 1880.

This manuscript also includes lines that were used in Specimen Days & Collect, see the description for

made a similar notation on "I have jotted down these memoranda" (described above), portions of which were

1Undated, on the American Idiomloc.05173xxx.00469How Would it Do1880-1885prose1 leafhandwritten; This

draft with trial titles and general ideas for the essay Slang in America, published in the North American

1Undated, on the American Idiomloc.05188xxx.00469[?

referred to here in a trial title as "Slang and Names in America," was first published in the North American

1Undated, on the American Idiomloc.05189xxx.00469[Names and Slang]After 1880prose1 leafhandwritten; In

ruminates about a title, presumably for the piece published as Slang in America, first in the North American

These four poems were reprinted in the Sands at Seventy annex to Leaves of Grass (1888).

On verso detached from Leaves of Grass, part of Poem of Joys, first published in the 1860 edition of

Whitman's 'Calamus' Photographs" in Betsy Erkkila and Jay Grossman, Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Walt Whitman by Edy Brothers, Summer 1880 This and six other photographs were taken in the summer of

Though Trowbridge became familiar with Whitman's poetry in 1855, he did not meet Whitman until 1860,

has failed—whether it is the rheumatic & neuralgic affection that troubled you the last spring we were

whether the fatigues & excitements & the very enjoyments & full life, & burst of prophetic joy, as it were

seen Rossetti —he was full of enquiries & affectionate interest in all that concerns you—& loth we were

Pauls), & looks down on one side over the great city with its canopy of smoke, & on the other over a

We sigh for the warmth of an American house indoors often & for American sunshine out of doors.

An aspiring physician, Beatrice took the needed preparatory classes but was barred (as were all women

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

big it is till he launches out in the midst of it—But there are plenty of hard-up fellows in this city

the RR stoppings, out of money & trying to get home—But the general run of all these Western places, city

great strikes—like the prizes in the lottery—but most are blanks —I was at Pike's Peak—I liked Denver City

very much—But the most interesting part of my travel has been the Plains , (the great American Desert

often go down to the river, or across this bridge—it is one of my favorite sights—but the air of this city

criticized William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (reprinted in American

Walt Whitman: His Ideas About the Future of American Literature WALT WHITMAN.

His Ideas About the Future of Amer- ican American Literature.

"What will be the character of the American literature when it does form?"

They are appearing in the Eastern cities and in the West.

They are very American. Emerson is our first man. He is in every way what he should be.

riding very often, & I have been everywhere within several miles, & in all the outer parts of the City

which are the roomiest & the pleasantest by far of any city I have ever seen—Jeff is very kind indeed

send my letters on here for the present—Lou this is a wonderful, wonderful country, & the richest city

Durham: Duke University Press, 1949), 207–208; Appendix C, December 23, 1883 (Yale Collection of American