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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Richard Bentley & Son were London publishers.

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

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.

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 "

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

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.

(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

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

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

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

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?"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.)

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

My thoughts were with on the 4th.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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