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I am glad you are to have an article in the North American , and only wish it were to be longer.

I only wish I were not tied up as I am with this weary office, and work monstrous and endless, as it

I have not yet succeeded in telling you (you know we were interrupted each time we began to talk of it

Her cheerfulness, her infinite gentleness and tenderness, were like the deep smile of the evening sky

It is as if the Cheeryble Brothers were rolled into one.

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

Charley Sorrell and his brother, Jim, were drivers.

twenty items on Whitman appeared in the Press before the periodical folded (for the first time) in 1860

He and Rachel were the only vast actors I ever saw.

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

I wish it were further along.

" 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

On Christmas, you were wanted to make the dinner at home perfect. We all spoke of you.

Harlan apparently took offense at the copy of the 1860 Leaves of Grass which Whitman was revising and

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

The article by the wretch named Willard in the American Magazine filled me with indignation.

O'Connor is likely referring to Cyrus Field Willard (1858–1942), an American journalist, political activist

In the December 1887 edition of The American Magazine, Willard dramatizes an interview he conducted with

" 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

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

ardently believing in your book, "fresh, vehement and true," as Thomas Davis says the Irish guard were

I wish I were not so driven with work, and felt well.

" 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

Füssli] (1741–1825) was a Swiss painter who lived most of his life in England and whose many sketches were

of an item I saw in the Critic here, last evening as I rode up in the street cars, stating that you were

But they were all wrong—it was an engorged liver, which the battery relieved instanter, and the lady

—I am obliged to you for the notice in the North American (G.E.M.).

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

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

Is it your haunting voice as I heard it that last night we were together, chanting to me that divine

C.W.E. and I were intensely amused at your "amiable clerk with a pen behind his ear," as applied to Stedman's

This gives points to Herod, and is worse than the slaughter of the innocents, because they were Jew babies

Eldridge (1837–1903) was, with William Wilde Thayer, the Boston publisher of Whitman's 1860 edition of

Gay Wilson Allen, Ed Folsom (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1990), 268–281.

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

Perhaps a reference to Henry Jacob Bigelow (1818–1890), an American surgeon, professor at Harvard and

I return your Salt Lake City letter about Bacon and Shakespeare, having carefully read it thrice.

The North American man called it "so very valuable a manuscript," apologizing for declining it on the

recently in which she says: "By the way, there is in the latest edition of Leaves of Grass a poem—'The City

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

I will try to get the "American Queen" ("spell it with an a," as I once heard Horace Mann say sarcastically

I composed the article under great affliction, for as the devil would have it, there were several days

I wish you were better, and hope the coming coolness of October will revive you. More anon.

I never can say how anxious I was about you when you were here.

was so lucky that you left just when you did, for the three or four days succeeding your departure were

But, on the whole, every feeling submerges in gratefulness and thankfulness that you were away from this

Eldridge and later John Burroughs, were to be his close associates during the early Washington years.

O'Connor (1832–1889) was the author of Harrington, an abolition novel published by Thayer & Eldridge in 1860

the most important, of the adulators who divided people arbitrarily into two categories: those who were

for and those who were against Walt Whitman.

Thoreau, he said, was equally, or nearly equally, strong in favor of Leaves of Grass, and so were the

wants it so, but mainly because you request it, I accede to the names of books being left as they were

His reservations were completely oversloughed by his eulogy.

seriously after my return, and developed into a bad attack of erysipelas, with which my head and face were

If I were well, I would certainly attempt it, but so far as I am concerned, the opportunity must be lost

I hear that the North American is getting up an article about you. Do you know anything about it?

"For only those who in sad cities dwell, Are of the green fields fully sensible."

I am sorry I did not know you were going yesterday, because we could have arranged it all better than

Whitman in the New York Sonntagsblatt of November 1, 1868, mentioned Freiligrath's admiration for the American

During the 1860s, Price and her family, especially her daughter, Helen, were friends with Whitman and

In 1860 the Price family began to save Walt's letters.

Helen's reminiscences of Whitman were included in Richard Maurice Bucke's biography, Walt Whitman (Philadelphia

His shad and champagne dinners for Whitman were something of a tradition.

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

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1854–1939) was an American activist and editor of the anarchist periodical

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

: "Chief of organic numbers, Old poet of the spheres—" And I thought how much more applicable they were

I did not even know that you were writing little pieces for the Herald until some time after you had

As stereotype did not then exist, these editions were manifestly in each case reset, which could only

If Nelly knew I were writing she would surely send you her love.

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

" 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

You were bad enough then, God knows, and I felt downcast at your condition, though trusting that it was

If I were not so badly crippled—especially the last few days—I would try to come and hear for myself.

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

a time Walt Whitman lived with the O'Connors, who, with Charles Eldridge and later John Burroughs, were

Count referred to Whitman in his entry for April 18, 1864, as among "the most original and genuine American

LeRoy Fischer, Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 36 (1949–1950): 415–434, and the Dictionary of American

Eldridge and later John Burroughs, were to be his close associates during the early Washington years.

O'Connor (1832–1889) was the author of Harrington, an abolition novel published by Thayer & Eldridge in 1860

the most important, of the adulators who divided people arbitrarily into two categories: those who were

for and those who were against Walt Whitman.

Count referred to Whitman in his entry for April 18, 1864, as among "the most original and genuine American

I have felt that you and I were brothers in misfortune—I hope in all other and better ways too.

The proofs were read with much pleasure, and despatched to Dr. Bucke, as you wished.

There is one additional "Camden" postmark, but only the name of the city is legible.

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

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

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

What other American poet has earned, or will ever earn, the proud distinction of having an article upon

typical Protestant, according to Lord Chief Justice Campbell, a Protestant and a Scotchman, there were

It is remarkable and good, though I don't always see as he does, and wish he were more comprehensive.

What is most significant, however, is the article called "American Poets" in the October number of the

He was the author of many books and articles on German-American affairs and was superintendent of German

See The American-German Review 13 (December 1946), 27–30.

Eldridge, a Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860

had already appeared in The Critic on December 16, 1882, and Whitman republished it in the North American

Julian Hawthorne (1846–1934) was the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne and an American critic and journalist

Were I near you I should like to have the honor of paying my personal respects to you.

it bears no feeling of ill will against those who wished to keep chains on men because their skins were

sympathy with your life's work, and that I regard your Leaves of Grass as being the most original of American

" 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

The magazine in question will contain contributions by well-known English and American authors. from

I am better pleased with the city than when I last wrote.

The Hospitals here were in a destitute condition, compared with those of the North.

According to Whitman's jottings in "New York City Veterans" (Glicksberg, 67), he discovered John Lowery

Taylor without making note of it, I have been unable to answer & besides the American News Co to whom

This letter is addressed: Hon Walt Whitman | Atty Genls Office, | Washington City, | D.C.

Benjamin Franklin Taylor (1822–1887) was an American poet who worked as a Western correspondent during

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

I recieved a letter from Memphis some time since stating that they were on boats bound for Vicksburg

Can you bring any influence to bear on this matter in the City of Washington.

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

The volumes were published in the early 1880s, with the fifth and final volume published in 1884.

those limbs were no longer pulseless and the eye returned my admiring gaze.

—My eyes were opened:—before me stood a nude figure!

and "tears of angels"— Yours Truly Wilhelmina Walton Wilhelmina Walton to Walt Whitman, 16 August 1860

While answering freely, Walt wound up this part of the conversation by saying that those were problems

As for American poets, Mr.

The others present were Mrs.

The sternest enemy of the American philosopher and of the great fog-bank school to which he, in some

These dreary pieces of laboured humour are not as popular now as they were twenty years ago, but Walt

J OHN H OLLINGSHEAD . ∗ Leaves of Grass Boston (U.S.): Thayer and Eldridge. 1860–61. J. T. S.

These are slightly misquoted lines from the 1860 , pp. 46-47.

.; These are slightly misquoted lines from the 1860 Leaves of Grass, pp. 46-47.

This tale is the second of nine short stories by Whitman that were published for the first time in The

The light and heat were not glaring now: a change had come over the aspect of the scene.

It seemed quite dark, so heavy were the clouds.

Drops sparkled on the leaf-tips,—coolness and clearness were in the air.

The clattering of a horse's hoofs came to the ears of those who were gathered there.

This tale is the second of nine short stories by Whitman that were published for the first time in The

The second and third scraps were revised and contributed to Distant Sounds.

Both of these prose pieces first appeared in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883), and were included in