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could forgive me for this—but you what has been a frequent mine—"if all the things which are done, were

left undone, and all the which are barely undone , were done, the world every way would present a very

myself, represent "falsehoods," and "the sale of slaves"—4 or 5 years before my father and mother were

them all by them selves themselves Please go and see them tell them I sent you to see how they ware were

Our little Walter has been very sick since I saw you we were afraid we would lose him but is just well

moderation, has been all the past month visiting, riding, receiving, and jaunting in and about the city

audience to the most cultured and elegant society of New York, including most of the artists of the city

been thrown open on two special occasions for informal public receptions in compliment to him, which were

Whitman has explored the city and neighborhood, often as near possible after the fashion of old times

spirits, believes thoroughly not only in the future world, but the present, and especially in our American

They were very sad. No welcome had the poet for Art or Face, but to Death his door flew open wide.

113 east 10th Street | N Y New York City— March 13 Dear friend Yours of yesterday rec'd received —Shall

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

Six sections of this book first appeared as newspaper pieces in 1874, and then were collected and revised

evenigng evening & was glad to hear from you & to know that you are well & happy with your friends in the City

Harry's parents, George (1827–1892) and Susan Stafford (1833–1910), were tenant farmers at White Horse

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

The whole collection would be sufficiently homogeneous, (and it were a fault to be too much so)—You just

passages are quoted as being the work of an immoral writer, and, altho' although I tried to show they were

ardent supporter of Walt Whitman's works in England (see Harold Blodgett, "Whitman and Buchanan," American

Originally entitled "Enfans d'Adam" in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, this cluster of poems celebrating

The poems, openly "singing the phallus" and the "mystic deliria," were too bold for their time and often

relationship with esteemed writer Ralph Waldo Emerson cooled after he refused Emerson's advice in 1860

Miller, Jr., " 'Children of Adam' [1860]," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R.

tramp & strike questionsabout 1882prose1 leafhandwritten; This page of notes about the problems of American

These notes describing the onset of spring were revised and later published in Specimen Days & Collect

Revised portions of this draft were used as the first paragraph of the section titled Convalescent Hours

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

"Yes—that was an actual moth," he told Traubel, "the picture is substantially literal: we were good friends

What is not often noted is that the photo simply enacts one of the recurrent visual emblems in the 1860

Black photo in 1860 (zzz.00134) and two photos of Whitman with his friend Bill Duckett, taken in 1886

Your poems are an Appian Way for the triumphal thoughts of the American, and you celebrate a theatre

The lines that make up this manuscript were probably drafted for the Centennial of 1876.

The lines that make up this manuscript were probably drafted for the Centennial of 1876.; The manuscript

Joaquin Miller was the pen name of Cincinnatus Heine Miller (1837–1913), an American poet nicknamed "

Nash were old Washington friends of Whitman and Doyle.

but the bad deathly spells are very rare, (almost unknown) the last three months—I want to go to N Y city

Nash were old Washington friends of Whitman and Doyle.

Crops here of all kinds were much injured by the drought, —am sorry to hear of your bad luck & that with

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

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

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

Joaquin Miller was the pen name of Cincinnatus Heine Miller (1837–1913), an American poet nicknamed "

Since the Gilchrists were in Philadelphia in December 1876, and since Whitman accompanied Eldridge to

Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908), an American poet, was staying with Philip Bourke Marston (to whom

Your letters of April 18 and 28th were very comforting to me.

McCarthy, Jr. (1860–1936).

And the good women—God bless them—who were the first at the sepulchre and the last at the cross—how kind

his oral opinion that I might drink some light wine once a day till the returns in South Carolina were

host of English friends whose words of praise, warm and earnest, have kindled up the great poet's American

admirers, till Longfellow himself begins to appreciate the poet of American manhood, whose large utterances

Whitman's poetry is like no other that ever was written—boldly conceived, bluntly expressed, purely American

Stillman (1828–1901), an American painter and art critic, visited Walt Whitman in Washington in December

William James Stillman (1828–1901), an American painter and art critic, visited Walt Whitman in Washington

But, if many opposed him, many were of his party, and the most opposite and opposed schools of poetry

Americans question his right to be the typical singer of America.

Yet Walt Whitman has merits that no American prose-writer or poet ever yet had, with virtues and strength

sufficient for claiming laureateship of the great American nation.

Such, hurriedly sketched, were the accompaniments of the death of President Lincoln.

Whitman, who had lived with the Prices at various times in the 1860s, evidently did not visit them after

Congress, Washington, D.C.) and his letters reveal, many copies of the second printing to English and American

Krieg, chapter 8, "Dublin," Walt Whitman and the Irish (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000), 190

He utterly refused to let me have any money or even books which were mine under exemption laws had I

The first with other debts were to be paid in four proportions as the goods were sold.

(June 20) were accompanied with lists of subscribers' am'ts amounts & addresses—the names on which lists

is not with the draft letter, appears in his Commonplace Book under September 5, 1876: two volumes were

Richard Bentley and Son were London publishers.

Whitman—she was practical enough to arm herself with letters of introduction to various Americans.

My thoughts were with on the 4th.

Should you know some good memoirs and relations of contemporaries about the Anglo-American work?

Boston 1860–61. 3d. Ed. ? New York 1867, 4th. Ed. ? Washington 1871, 5th. Ed. ? Camden 1876 6th.

Wishing to know from an authentic source what other american Editions have been printed if any, will

On February 10, 1860, Whitman received a letter from the Boston publishing firm of Thayer and Eldridge

In March 1860, Whitman traveled to Boston to meet with the publishers and to oversee the printing of

the volume consisted of four separately paginated books stitched together (an edited version of the 1860

questions I have lately sent about policy of attacking suc h Orthodoxy as prevails here and elsewhere, were

De feated till I sometimes wish I were dead.)

Jessie and her sister Manahatta "Hattie" (1860–1886) were both favorites of their uncle Walt.

Walt Whitman continued steadily through '63, '64, and '65, to visit the sick and wounded of the American

armies, both on the field and in the hospitals in and around Washington city.

Some were scratched down from narratives he heard and itemized while watching, or writing, or leading

or Southey—ever depicted the woes of war so powerfully and touchingly as Walt Whitman does, as it were

It was in the same battle both were hit.

claim a patent right for the my old terms "champion of nature" and "good-enough man" &c &c If you were

come (Perhaps on all subjects, in time, I have had printed as much as would make 3 or 4 columns of a city

to Meltonsville Perhaps the greatest doubter is the greatest Philosopher A while back some debtors were

During the American Civil War, Camp Douglas—founded in 1861—was a Union camp in Chicago.

their copies carefully sent to their addresses by mail prepaid, (as I find this is the best way)—There were

Wallis (1811–1891) was an artist and Keeper of the Art Collection at the South Kensington Museum from 1860

admirer might even say that the book called Leaves of Grass was intended to give a section, as it were