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Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 14 January 1888

  • Date: January 14, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 15 March 1888

  • Date: March 15, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 18–19 September 1888

  • Date: September 18–19, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

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

reporter, probably John Habberton, quoted the following from his "notes of Whitman's opinions, which were

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, William Douglas O'Connor, and Richard Maurice Bucke, 15 October 1888

  • Date: October 15, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 3 July 1889

  • Date: July 3, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 13 July 1889

  • Date: July 13, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

The notes and addresses that were delivered at Whitman's seventieth birthday celebration in Camden, on

May 31, 1889, were collected and edited by Horace Traubel.

Only 300 copies were printed, and Whitman signed the title page of each one.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 10 July 1889

  • Date: July 10, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

May 31, 1889, were collected and edited by Horace Traubel.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 5–7 [July] 1889

  • Date: [July] 5–7, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

than I, (I mean the bad investments) came to see me soon after William's death to say that if things were

Annotations Text:

The notes and addresses that were delivered at Whitman's seventieth birthday celebration in Camden, on

May 31, 1889, were collected and edited by Horace Traubel.

David McKay (1860–1918) took over Philadelphia-based publisher Rees Welsh's bookselling and publishing

Harold and Grace were the children of William F.

Channing, and they were the nephew and niece, respectively, of William D. O'Connor.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 13 December 1888

  • Date: December 13, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Russell Lowell, 1860. Sept 26."

Annotations Text:

Walsh (1854–1919), an American author and editor of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

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

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

Rapple, "James Russell Lowell", American Travel Writers, 1850–1915 [Detroit: Gale, 1998], 247–254).

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs and Richard Maurice Bucke, 19 July 1889

  • Date: July 19, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Ursula and John were married on September 12, 1857.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 2 September 1889

  • Date: September 2, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 29 August 1889

  • Date: August 29, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

probably send the picture by him —just had to pay nearly $40 for taxes to the banditti who govern our city

Annotations Text:

Whitman paid a city tax of $25.28 on August 24 and a water tax bill for $8.40 on August 28.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 27 August 1889

  • Date: August 27, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 30–31 August 1889

  • Date: August 30–31, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Six of Whitman's poems were published there between 1874 and 1892.

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

The notes and addresses that were delivered at Whitman's seventieth birthday celebration in Camden, on

May 31, 1889, were collected and edited by Horace Traubel.

[New York: The Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 1990]).

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 28 July 1889

  • Date: July 28, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

The notes and addresses that were delivered at Whitman's seventieth birthday celebration in Camden, on

May 31, 1889, were collected and edited by Horace Traubel.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 2 August 1889

  • Date: August 2, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Hamlin Garland (1860–1940) was an American novelist and autobiographer, known especially for his works

about the hardships of farm life in the American Midwest.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 25 July 1889

  • Date: July 25, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Susan (1833–1910) and George Stafford (1827–1892) were the parents of Whitman's young friend, Harry Stafford

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 3–4 August 1889

  • Date: August 3–4, 1889; 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown author | Unknown
Text:

Only July 1 there were 660 patients, including epileptics, and the physical and mental benefit derived

The elaborate preparations that were made for disaster in establishing a line of retreat exhausted their

Annotations Text:

George and his wife Susan were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New Jersey, where Whitman

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 5 August 1889

  • Date: August 5, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 8 August 1889

  • Date: August 8, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Only 300 copies were printed, and Whitman signed the title page of each one.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 24 August 1889

  • Date: August 24, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

good-natured, impulsive, with the over-carefulness of the average Welshman tempered by his experiences of American

An infusion of American generosity & freedom would do them great good.

& other nine-days wonders, was the endless cosmopolitan ebb & flow of the peoples of the world,—American

Annotations Text:

The "Emily Reed" was an American sailing ship known as a "Downeaster"; it was launched in 1880, when

The Fritzinger brothers were the children of a blind sea captain, Henry Whireman Fritzinger, for whom

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 16–18 August 1889

  • Date: August 16–18, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

David McKay (1860–1918) took over Philadelphia-based publisher Rees Welsh's bookselling and publishing

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.

May 31, 1889, were collected and edited by Horace Traubel.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, [29]–30 June [1889]

  • Date: June [29]–30, [1889]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

The notes and addresses that were delivered at Whitman's seventieth birthday celebration in Camden, on

May 31, 1889, were collected and edited by Horace Traubel.

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

Only 300 copies were printed, and Whitman signed the title page of each one.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, [8]–9 June 1889

  • Date: June [8]–9, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

to a good round old age. for you deserve it well and you also deserve well of your country. for you were

Annotations Text:

on May 31, 1889, as the result of the cataclysmic failure of the South Fork Dam; over 2200 people were

Only 300 copies were printed, and Whitman signed the title page of each one.

David McKay (1860–1918) took over Philadelphia-based publisher Rees Welsh's bookselling and publishing

Ursula and John were married on September 12, 1857.

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 14 August 1889

  • Date: August 14, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 14–16 June 1889

  • Date: June 14–16, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

probably change the temperature)—have relish'd my supper, a bit of beef steak & some bread pudding—if it were

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 8 April 1888

  • Date: April 8, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

At this time relations between Rhys and William Sloane Kennedy were strained; on March 1 (?)

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

Thomas Eakins (1844–1919) was an American painter.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 3 March 1888

  • Date: March 3, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Messrs Ingram and Logue were much taken with y'r talk, impression, presence &c.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 21 July 1888

  • Date: July 21, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Weir Mitchell, the noted American physician and writer of historical fiction; the young Mitchell looked

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 23 December 1888

  • Date: December 23, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Walsh, an American author and editor of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 28 October 1888

  • Date: October 28, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

David McKay (1860–1918) took over Philadelphia-based publisher Rees Welsh's bookselling and publishing

For more information about McKay, see Joel Myerson, "McKay, David (1860–1918)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 9 December 1888

  • Date: December 9, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Walsh (1854–1919), an American author and editor of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 19 May 1889

  • Date: May 19, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Only 300 copies were printed, and Whitman signed the title page of each one.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, [25]–26 May [1889]

  • Date: May [25]–26, [1889]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

There is a Buffalo, NY postmark, but only the city name and the year "1889" are clearly legible.

of the New York Nation and Harper's Magazine during the mid 1860s.

In an Ashtabula Sentinel review of the 1860 edition Leaves of Grass, Howells wrote, "If he is indeed

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

Only 300 copies were printed, and Whitman signed the title page of each one.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 24 January 1888

  • Date: January 24, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

For more on the paper and the many poems by Whitman that were published in it, see Susan Belasco, "The

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 20 May 1889

  • Date: May 20, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Only 300 copies were printed, and Whitman signed the title page of each one.

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

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 6 January 1888

  • Date: January 6, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

There were some jolly young fellows there, & some splendid girls, but among the last I think Alys Smith

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

Annotations Text:

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

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

York Evening Post and Herald newspaper correspondent and editor Charles Nordhoff (1830–1901); they were

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 8 April 1889

  • Date: April 8, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

" 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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 11 April 1889

  • Date: April 11, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Only 300 copies were printed, and Whitman signed the title page of each one.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 16 April 1889

  • Date: April 16, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, William D. O'Connor, and Richard Maurice Bucke, 8 April 1889

  • Date: April 8, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Walt Whitman Kennedy please send all to Mrs O'Connor & O'C please send on to Dr Bucke "A Library of American

Editors: Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson. 3 East 14th Street, New York City, March 27th

An American, 2. A book-lover, 3.

To-day, then, I forward to you by express the first seven volumes of the "Library of American Literature

In short, I send you an American "cosmorama" for your own room: hoping it may lighten some of the hours

Annotations Text:

" 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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) was an American poet, story-writer, and novelist who also served as

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 14 April 1889

  • Date: April 14, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

I wish that we all were near you, if so be that we might make an occasional hour brighter for you & contribute

Her husband is in the new London City Council and is becoming prominent in abilities & in his profession

He bites hard—says "it wd be a vast pity if the book were to fall through," owing to my obstinacy I suppose

Annotations Text:

O'Connor), and then the O'Connors were to send the letters to Bucke.

" 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

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 23–24 March 1889

  • Date: March 23–24, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

David McKay (1860–1918) took over Philadelphia-based publisher Rees Welsh's bookselling and publishing

Only 300 copies were printed, and Whitman signed the title page of each one.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907) was an American poet, story-writer, and novelist who also served as

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 22 March 1889

  • Date: March 22, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

(p 772) of the American Supplement Brit: Encyc: has a pretty good statistical & friendly notice of me

Annotations Text:

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

Bucke and his brother-in-law William John Gurd were designing a gas and fluid meter to be patented in

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 26 March 1889

  • Date: March 26, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Only 300 copies were printed, and Whitman signed the title page of each one.

David McKay (1860–1918) took over Philadelphia-based publisher Rees Welsh's bookselling and publishing

For more information about McKay, see Joel Myerson, "McKay, David (1860–1918)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy and Richard Maurice Bucke, 18 April 1888

  • Date: April 18, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 27 March 1889

  • Date: March 27, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 17 April 1889

  • Date: April 17, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 22 April 1889

  • Date: April 22, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Only 300 copies were printed, and Whitman signed the title page of each one.

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 21 May 1888

  • Date: May 21, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Ernest Rhys
Annotations Text:

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

Lawrence Barrett (1838–1891) was an American stage actor who acted in the repertory company of the Boston

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