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As yesterday, were at Harned's office all day. Then down to W.'s. Bucke and Gurd along.

But the troubles were "by no means in an active stage." B. asked for information about W.'s eating.

I have always supposed we were veteran adepts at the business."

W. said: "Maurice, you astonish me: you destroy one of my cherished beliefs: I hoped you were better

W. said: "No: I'd rather take offense if you were not free."

very much to spend a few hours with you, and if you have no objection I shall make a trip to your city

Keller's notes of the day, which were rather encouraging. Went immediately into the front room.

Were there not signs of strength? "No, none at all."

Twelve were for him. I had twelve sent to McKay. Oldach made his charge one twenty-eight.

I asked: "Were you always as stubbornly deliberate over trifles as you are today?"

Miss Stafford and a newspaper man were turned away.

New York, May 12, 1860.My dear Walt,The books are duly delivered.

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

very favorable to us—to 'Leaves of Grass': treated us handsomely at all times—when on the North American—before—since

type—all brains, no body—and once he had a wife—I met her: but one of the smart women, too—then they were

The copies so far gone out were unnumbered. W. laughed.

years ago I went all through the Ring and the Book and other poems—two or three thick volumes: they were

His questions were many and curious, without committing him, yet indication of the lines in which he

These were really the only pages of the magazine cut.

And "how sad" the prospect that the islands were "doubtless to be torn away!"

to connect all America by noble roads—the west to the east—the north to the south—and some of them were

There were others: Seward, Sumner, Phillips—such—elegant, refined, scholarly—the gift of college, the

"I thought you were already off, Warrie?" Warrie then approached and took W.'s hand, "Good-bye, Mr.

Indeed, all of us fellows who brush about the cities are obliged to be cute."

The lectures were for the masses—workingmen, anybody who would come."

At one time recently he had "started a coffee house in one of the second or third class English cities

It had occurred while no attendants were present— "cadets, nurses, doctors, me."

I described Clifford's attendance at the big Farrar reception of ministers in the city: hundreds were

There were lines in the play last night in which Salvini's magnificent voice and passion forced a close

Gurd in the city in 30 minutes—must be off!

this—simply because of this: because while the whole pack of so-called philosophers, scholars, learned men, were

Then: "You know, Alcott was to see me, too: they were all in some particulars much alike—Emerson, Alcott

, Thoreau: then they were different too: but they all had the same manner—a sort of aloofness: only so

That is one of the great charges foreigners bring against America—against typical Americans—but I doubt

About eleven we were all in W.'

Then casting his eyes towards Hall and Hollishead, who were at the foot of the bed, he said, "I request

W. noticed the two witnesses were about to leave the room and he attempted to raise his hand and wave

The great vice in Thoreau's composition was his disdain of the universe—his disdain of cities, companions

Moreover, "Mary and Warrie were very kind to me. They watched and brought me round."

Asked me about temperature, also if Drexel Institute proceedings were all well passed off.

Downtown again—talk with city editor Press, then with Albright of the Ledger—giving W.'

s on my way to the city. All well there. W. and Ed sleeping. Ed had not gone to bed till one.

I wrote to Jeff how I was so much surer that a box from City Point would go through that I had sent a

12th—from 10 till 4, I am in the Indian Bureau, north-east corner Patent Office, basement.W. said: "We were

W. did not read it while we were there—only remarked: "It is finely type-written, if not other-written

As to Morris' exclamation to me in a discussion today—"If you were to see those Corots you would see

On the table an old German paper (1883) in which were 4 portraits, Whitman's with Lindau's, Heyse's and

When I was there a couple of weeks ago, Warrie came up to say a couple of visitors were downstairs.

They were to go by Saturday's steamer." I too hear from Bucke to effect mentioned by W.

I had with me the five copies of Illustrated American. He has not sent Bucke's copy off yet.

They were on the point of starting off together when Ingersoll seemed suddenly to bethink himself of

Stopped in on the way from city to leave proof of picture with him. W. in bedroom.

So we were thus together for half an hour. Spoke of opera again.

All Sumner's bases were right, sound, secure, but there was elegance, artificiality about him in unmistakable

I should say, that things original—any real hospitality for inherencies—no, they were not for him, he

The North American Review. New York, Oct. 5, 1886. My dear Friend: The syndicate is dissolved. Mr.

Just wait a few days, however, and I will read it and see if it will not do for the North American.

In my opinion it makes a new era in American Literature, and is to stand out more and more prominently

, as time advances, as the distinctively American book.Most respectfully,S.

'Leaves of Grass' is a buffer to all that—draws off, as it were, a very strong arm and gives it a blow

supply The Herald exclusively with a poem in relation to the coming world's fair to be held in this city

I quoted for W. from article in Illustrated American on Lowell, which gave Lowell eminence as "a great

critic" and author of one supreme ode (Lincoln) but said the people were not interested in him as in

Among things which turned up were these"—containing Verestchagin's "Progress in Art," copy of United

The American Book Maker, it seems, has been printing something about me—a portrait—which Bonsall seems

Bonsall had written: "The American Book Maker prints a life-like picture of Walt Whitman, which may be

sometimes like a house afire, of their enthusiasms—socialistic, many of them, perhaps most of them, were—very

One thing we must remember: we were born in the political sense free—they were not: that creates an altogether

They had brought him some pears, too, which by and by were referred to—fine samples of the fruit over

They were quite a family—farm folks—father, mother, children, boys and girls."

We take no such care of ourselves here—the American people have not hit upon that conviction yet.

Americans he thought "worked like the devil till they were all worked out"—though sometimes he "envied

It was mightily interesting at the moment we were going—the three girls there in a group bidding him

assign to us among English Whitmanites.My heart's best gratitude to you, our loyal & true hearted American

Wallace, & were his health more satisfacatory & had he leisure he could produce a book about him which

So that one difficulty in the way of the American visit is overcome.

my experiences South—all my experiences in the hospitals, among the soldiers in the crowds of the cities

, with the masses, in the great centers of population—allowing for all idiosyncrasies, idiocrasies, passions

it, years back from the start—but in my very first contact with the human Yankee all my prejudices were

I like you to know just how our crowd got along with each other—what we were saying to each other in

You had not then flashed on the scene—you were a youngster then—but you ought to be informed of all the

W. spoke dismally of American maternity this evening.

I suppose in all our millions of population—our 80 millions—teeming, spreading—there are not a dozen

Emerson was cultured—generations of culture were in him—but he was more, too—he was a superb gift to

his own kind—after the real kind: a hail fellow to the Elizabethan men, yet one in himself purely American

They were his halcyon days—I saw him often.

And how Western it is—royally American—sharp, bright, compact, nervy, positive, agile.

story of "Wilfred Besant" this morning: BESANT'S BOGUS BROTHER.How an English Imposter is Fleecing American

The tale of distress which he told in this city, as well as in other cities and towns of the East, has

and he was able to gather money here and there....It is not generally known how many people in this city

I had seen that the two poems, "As in a Swoon" and "After an Interval," were from printed copy.

: all his parts were related: as an actor he always seemed to me to be consistent with himself.

He said: "We were talking of inquiry—the habit of looking into traditions.

We have taken great pains to make the reprint correct—following the American spelling, &c., faithfully

rough of the world—to get out into affairs, the trades—but was taken care of in parlors by friends who were

W. had been reading Gladstone's reply to Ingersoll in the North American Review.

"They were not célèbres but were none the less—perhaps the more—welcome on that account.

They were the best kind of plain men—you know the sort I mean: the best plain men are always the best

and went across the room to W. he took and held my hand and said very seriously: "It's about time we were

Some of these things were souvenirs, some not.

I suppose if the charge was made to him he would say, well, that is what I meant to show—that they were

Again: "I reckon I was not made to understand the scribbling class—perhaps they were not made to understand

We had quite a good talk—they were here about 20 minutes, I should suppose.

went on: "Tell me more about it, then—tell me about the drive: what it amounted to, where led, who were

and now tell me, what did it suggest to you, what were certain of its prime features: tell me what most

And when I said, "No—it was a Jersey City boat," he said his interest in it was just the same, even if

And although he flung a log on it, and tried to start it up, his efforts were of no avail.

Returned me The Illustrated American: "I have sent for some copies.

But there were other ways in which he was "compensated,"—"in best friends: friends, few, but the better

We ought to congratulate ourselves we were not hors de combat—let alone, coming out with flying colors

, or about to be—destined for the biggest real work: but somehow when he went to London the best American

He asked me about Fels' views on the tariff, which I thought were rather liberal.

"I met him here and there but we were never on close terms.

most severe, most malignant, conservatives—old conservatives—are made out of men who in their youth were

Littell's used to quote consistently the meanest things that were being said about me.

Where were the letters he wrote his mother in Brooklyn from the War?

The poems were apparently never further developed and were never published.

Based on this date it can be speculated that the notes were written late in 1875 (a possibility corroborated

by the list of names), but the poem(s) may have been inscribed in the late 1860s or earlier.

Are the American aborigines and the neg a z Z ambo or a foreheadless c C rowfoot or Comanche Camanche

It became "Burial Poem" in 1856, "Burial" in 1860 and 1867, and took its final title, "To Think of Time

.”— We were requested by a prominent citizen this morning to head our notice of the great yacht race

OF what I write from myself—As if that were not the resumé; Of Histories—As if such, however complete

, were not less complete than my poems; As if the shreds, the records of nations, could possibly be as

lasting as my poems; As if here were not the amount of all nations, and of all the lives of heroes.

OF what I write from myself—As if that were not the resumé; Of Histories—As if such, however complete

, were not less complete than my poems; As if the shreds, the records of nations, could possibly be as

lasting as my poems; As if here were not the amount of all nations, and of all the lives of heroes.

herself; Of Equality—As if it harmed me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—As if it were

herself; Of Equality—As if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—As if it were

women there—of happiness in those high plateaus, ranging three thousand miles, warm and cold; Of cities