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

Whitman wrote for the first time to this distinguished American sculptor on April 12, 1876.

Ward (1830–1910) was, according to Dictionary of American Biography, "the first native sculptor to create

Ted Genoways [Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004], 7:145).

I was glad to hear you were better.

1901, now preserved in the "The Papers of Edward Carpenter, 1844–1929," in the Sheffield, England, City

Memoranda During the War (1875) chronicles Whitman's time as a hospital volunteer during the American

This postcard bears the address, "John Swinton | 124 East 38th st | New York City."

Copies of the volume were withdrawn so that the sequel could be added.

several poems, adding eighteen new poems to those that appeared in Drum-Taps, and all of these poems were

Later, these poems were folded into Leaves of Grass, and by the time the final arrangement of Leaves

The floor around it, and one or two chairs near it, were strewn with scrawled half-sheets of note-paper

His tone and manner were perfectly cheerful, and went far to explain the affectionate interest he is

You were explaining the plan of your work?"

Rejoiced, too, perhaps with the sight of many dear old friends whom occasion has brought to your city

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

especially as I can & will give, to each generous donor, my book, portrait, autograph, myself as it were

I wish I were a rich man . . . and you should certainly never want anything your heart craved . . . happy

you have fulfilled your life, & spoken—in tunes no thunders can silence—the beautiful message you were

Dear Sir: Your books were returned yesterday. The Web. Dict. and the Auth.

Their offices were at 721 Market Street, San Francisco.

Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, & Co. were booksellers and publishers, who printed books by William Swinton

(Now, if there were living near me, such people that I could take my Walt Whitman books with me, and

If I were a rich man I would print in great, big type, that Song , for wide distribution at the Centennial

The Passage to India and the Strong Bird &c were not new to me—I had them before.

In August 1865, the city of St.

Louis presented Sherman a gift of $30,000 to buy a house in the city, and he purchased a house on Garrison

Lee (1807–1870) was an American military officer who commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia

in the American Civil War.

generals in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.

After All, Not to Create Only") was published in 1871; see Whitman's August 5, 1871, letter to the American

After All, Not to Create Only") was published in 1871; see Whitman's August 5, 1871 letter to the American

This letter's envelope bears the address, "John Swinton | 13413 East 38th Street | New York City."

This postcard is addressed: John Swinton | 134 East 38th street | New York City.

was unneeded, hurtful to my case, & join'd joined with his allusions to the matter in his public American

March 11 letter to the News , is well taken, & true without exception —particularly all about the American

sent May 6 '76 see notes Jan 7 1889 35 East 39th St New York City. May 3d 1876.

many & so delighted the few—Permit me to congratulate you & to feel a little pride myself as an American

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

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

Fanny Raymond Ritter (c.1835–1891) was an American musician, writer, historian, and the wife of the German-American

The Ritters were friends of William Sloane Kennedy and William D.

Walt Whitman, the American Poet.

their souls as an instinct, their general tone of thought and feeling, and modes of expressing them, were

One of his own countrymen (a press correspondent) thus writes of him— The only American prophet to my

The "seven cities" refer to Chios, Athens, Rhodes, Colophon, Argos, Smyrna, and Salamis.

Walt Whitman, the American Poet

Clear Grits were reformers in the province of Upper Canada, a British colony that is now Ontario, Canada

Their support was concentrated among southwestern Ontario farmers, who were frustrated and disillusioned

The Clear Grits advocated universal male suffrage, representation by population, democratic institutions

They can easily be remembered through the mnemonic "carcass" (the first letter of each city spells the

have been attributed to several writers, including Thomas Heywood (died 1649), who wrote: "Seven cities

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

Richard Bentley & Son were London publishers.

Mary Fenn Robinson (1824–1886) was an American Spiritualist and the second wife of Andrew Jackson Davis

The couple founded the Herald of Progress, a Spiritualist newspaper, in 1860.

Austin's letter to the same paper in which he said "While we talk, he starves"; to defend your American

last loaf with you; and to free you from the charge of getting aid on false pretences of which you were

at one here on the subject, and Rossetti wrote to me that he knew Buchanans Buchanan's statements were

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

Young's knowledge of the Chinese language earned him the position of the American ambassador to China

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

If it were not for unduly trenching upon your space, I would like to show you the passages which the

I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that American has yet contributed.

seemed the sterile and stingy nature, as if too much handiwork or too much lymph in the temperament were

I rubbed my eyes a little to see if this sunbeam were no illusion; but the solid sense of the book is

When the author of “Leaves of Grass” was in Boston in 1860, Emerson was his frequent and cordial visitor

This general statement of the relations between the two men explains the talk upon Boston Common in 1860

And my arriere and citadel positions—such as I have indicated in my June North American Review memorandum—were

not only not attacked, they were not even alluded to.”

Chadwick may try to say that if Walt Whitman had any case to state, that hour with Emerson in 1860 was

Let us come & be near you—& see if we are made of the right sort of stuff for transplanting to American

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

Memoranda During the War (1875) chronicles Whitman's time as a hospital volunteer during the American

already begun to wear the grizzled beard and silvering locks that have become almost the badge of American

been a confirmed invalid, he has assumed more entirely the grayness that was ascribed to him, and were

It was in April, 1860, when I had been seized at night by the Untied States marshal, under an unlawful

Whitman, who is inspector of gas-pipes in the city of Camden.

Thoreau was also a writer for the Democratic Review in those days before the flood,—so were Hawthorne

accusations of homosexuality; accusations that Petersen was inappropriately involved with schoolchildren were

I wish I were a rich man—I am only an author living by his pen—and you should certainly never want anything

I can conceive you smiling superbly as you survey the gnats of American journalism now hovering round

that you have fulfilled your life, & spoken—in tones no thunder can silence—the beautiful message you were

Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907) was an American abolitionist, minister, and frequent correspondent

" 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

Sent books by express prepaid—April 21 Karns City Butler Co County Pa Pennsylvania April 14th 1876 Walt

In 1860, when he was tried in Boston because of his refusal to testify before a committee of the U.S.

Ward (1830–1910) was, according to Dictionary of American Biography, "the first native sculptor to create

Walt Whitman wrote for the first time to distinguished American sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward (1830

Ward (1830–1910) was, according to Dictionary of American Biography, "the first native sculptor to create

This is to acknowledge yours of the 25 th March—those of the 16 and of the 20 , duly rec'd received , were

The letters referred to were written on March 30 and March 31.

deeply appreciate them, & do not hesitate to accept & respond to them in the same spirit in which they were

The last three lines of the endorsement were added three years later.

the office, Harry Stafford—I know his father & mother—There is a large family, very respectable American

Were it not that I find the uncertainty about this most embarrassing, & the presumable chance of enlisting

Memoranda During the War (1875) chronicles Whitman's time as a hospital volunteer during the American

intent, a stalwart man of genial appearance & seemingly past the middle age since his hair & face beard were

, live here, (my mother living with us) & have charge of one of the public schools (No. 13) of the city

Whitman served as the basis for Stephen Alonzo Schoff's engraving of the poet for Leaves of Grass (1860

Frank Leslie's Weekly, published from 1852 to 1922, was an American literary and news magazine published

Nor do I feel discouraged or surprised at what you say of American "crudeness," &c.

STRANGELY impudent agitation has just been started with regard to what is called "Walt Whitman's Actual American

Whitman, it may be explained, is an American writer who some years back attracted attention by a volume

of so-called poems which were chiefly remarkable for their absurd extravagance and shameless obscenity

"The real truth," says an American journal, which has taken up the subject apparently in the interest

All the established American poets studiously ignore Whitman."

"Walt Whitman's Actual American Position" was an unsigned article published in the West Jersey Press

B. first, & then me —say, if I were sick, or were poor, why then ,—&c. &c.

My dearest friend, I do not approve your American trans–settlement —I see so many things here, you have

yet no idea of—the American social & almost every other kind of crudeness, meagreness, (at least in

Ought it not to be a duty, too, of—not the American public to recognize your gift to America as a writer

but—the American Government to recognize your services, as of one who saved the lives, & lightened the

sufferings of many American citizens—It would be honourable to the Government & to you.

Memoranda During the War (1875) chronicles Whitman's time as a hospital volunteer during the American

The only American prophet to my knowledge who enjoys a fame in England not accorded him in his own country

singer he especially desired to be called, it can hardly be said that his claims to the rank of poet were

The newer parts were printed at this office.

women, nearly all of whom she knew well, giving me, among the rest, descriptions of Personnel that were

in some tangible shape: & I c.d could at this moment tell you of at least 3 several plans wh. which were

, & you vouch for as less strong than the facts, proves that some more cheerful preceding accounts were

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

Whitman's relationships with his publishers and distributors in the 1870s were extremely fraught, and

have tended it— My sister and brother Geo: George are well—My other sisters, nieces, & brother Jeff , were

O'Connor, who, with Charles Eldridge and later John Burroughs, were to be his close associates during

Though their correspondence slowed in the middle of their lives, the brothers were brought together again

He was also secretary of the American Philosophical Society.

Harned, ed., The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman [Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, and