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William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 17 August [1877]

  • Date: August 17, 1877
  • Creator(s): William Michael Rossetti
Annotations Text:

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

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 16 September 1877

  • Date: September 16, 1877
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

. ☞ If the population of the world were divided into lots of ten thousand—separated—minds a blank on

Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 16 September [1877]

  • Date: September 16, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Most of Whitman's communications with Doyle were written on post cards.

R. B. Anderson to Walt Whitman, 17 September 1877

  • Date: September 17, 1877
  • Creator(s): R. B. Anderson
Text:

In the next place I am one of the few in the West, I suppose I am the only one in this city, who has

I think there is no other American poet that has ever soared so high as you do at times, and hence no

Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 17 September 1877

  • Date: September 17, 1877
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

They were not miscellaneous poems, but one vol: a drama and the other a Chinese story.

Annotations Text:

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

published her first book of poetry (Blanche Lisle, and other Poems) under the pen name Cecil Home in 1860

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

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 19 September [1877]

  • Date: September 19, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Not a word about her disillusionment with the person who, not mentioned by name, was simply "an American

Anna Tolman Smith to Walt Whitman, 24 September 1877

  • Date: September 24, 1877
  • Creator(s): Anna Tolman Smith
Text:

question, which I was not prepared to answer, came comments in a British Review to the effect that Americans

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 25 September 1877

  • Date: September 25, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 25 September [1877]

  • Date: September 25, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

According to The Commonplace Book, the girls left on September 24 for Ellicott City, Maryland, where

Walt Whitman to Mannahatta Whitman and Jessie Louisa Whitman, 2 October [1877]

  • Date: October 2, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

letter bears the address: Miss Mannahatta Whitman | Care of Mrs Archer | Patapsco Seminary | Ellicott City

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 4 October 1877

  • Date: October 4, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

Ed has gon gone to the City to day today and I have to tend for him and Ben wishes to go to the City

Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 17 October 1877

  • Date: October 17, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Edward P. Cattell to Walt Whitman, 21 October 1877

  • Date: October 21, 1877
  • Creator(s): Edward P. Cattell
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 24 October 1877

  • Date: October 24, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

Father has been to the city to day today and came home sick with the head-ache, so sick he had to go

Annotations Text:

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

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 29 October 1877

  • Date: October 29, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

Father is going to the City to day today and Brother is away, so the house is almost diserted deserted

Annotations Text:

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

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1877

  • Date: November 2, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

I did not get my load of cabbage sold, had to leave them with a commissioner, over in the city, I got

Annotations Text:

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

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 4 November 1877

  • Date: November 4, 1877
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Text:

is on "Man's Moral Nature." this book as I say was inspired by yourself about six years ago in the city

Annotations Text:

"The Function of the Great Sympathetic Nervous System" (American Journal of Insanity, 43 (October 1877

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 7 November 1877

  • Date: November 7, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 11 November [1877]

  • Date: November 11, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Herbert and Harry, however, were not on amicable terms (see Whitman's letter to Harry on August 7, 1877

Evidently the two young men were later on better terms, for, according to Harry's letter to Whitman on

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 13 November 1877

  • Date: November 13, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Edward D. Bellows to Walt Whitman, [15 November 1877?]

  • Date: November 15, 1877
  • Creator(s): Edward D. Bellows
Text:

Jersey City N.J. This partial letter, the top of which is cut away, has been repurposed.

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 17 November 1877

  • Date: November 17, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

The folks and I have commenced to miss you aready already , they were talking of you as soon as you left

Annotations Text:

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

Deborah Stafford (1860–1945) was the sister of Harry Stafford. She married Joseph Browning.

Walt Whitman to Edward D. Bellows, 20 November 1877

  • Date: November 20, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Bellows | 356 Fifth Street | bet Monmouth & Brunswick sts | Jersey City | N J.

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 21 November 1877

  • Date: November 21, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 27 November 1877

  • Date: November 27, 1877
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Text:

OK., they were over to Philadelphia after they left over to Swartse's, from what I hear them say.

Annotations Text:

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

John T. Trowbridge to Walt Whitman, 2 December 1877

  • Date: December 2, 1877
  • Creator(s): John T. Trowbridge
Annotations Text:

Though Trowbridge became familiar with Whitman's poetry in 1855, he did not meet Whitman until 1860,

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

Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 12 December [1877]

  • Date: December 12, 1877
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Eldridge was an old friend of Whitman and copublisher of the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 17 December 1877

  • Date: December 17, 1877
  • Creator(s): William Michael Rossetti
Annotations Text:

Whitman's article "The American War" appeared in the London Examiner on March 18, 1876.

William Taylor to Walt Whitman, 18 December 1877

  • Date: December 18, 1877
  • Creator(s): William Taylor
Text:

Honered Honored Friend— Was beginning to fear you were ill.

Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 19 December 1877

  • Date: December 19, 1877
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

villa residences—and in the valley below one enduring cloud of smoke, and a pale faced teeming population

Annotations Text:

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

Supplement Hours

  • Date: about 1880
Text:

The lines that appear in this manuscript also were published posthumously as "Supplement Hours," a poem

Notes where wild bees flitting hum

  • Date: about 1880
Text:

lines unpublished in Whitman's life, but which appeared in other manuscript drafts with lines that were

The lines that appear in this manuscript were published posthumously as part of a poem titled Supplement

Sky

  • Date: about 1878
Text:

Portions of this manuscript were revised and used in The Sky—Days and Nights—Happiness, first published

[as real as]

  • Date: 1878-1888
Text:

essay, Whitman compares Fox, the founder of the Quaker movement, and Shakespeare, noting that both were

Abraham Lincoln

  • Date: 1878-1879
Text:

Walt Whitman's Account of the Scene at Ford's Theatre, in the New York Sun (12 February 1876) and were

Walt Whitman by Napoleon Sarony, 1878

  • Date: 1878
  • Creator(s): Sarony, Napoleon
Text:

Perhaps the first American “celebrity photographer,” Sarony made much of his money selling portraits

Walt Whitman by Napoleon Sarony, July 6, 1878

  • Date: July 6, 1878
  • Creator(s): Sarony, Napoleon
Text:

Perhaps the first American “celebrity photographer,” Sarony made much of his money selling portraits

Walt Whitman by Napoleon Sarony, July 1878

  • Date: July 1878
  • Creator(s): Sarony, Napoleon
Text:

Perhaps the first American “celebrity photographer,” Sarony made much of his money selling portraits

Walt Whitman and Harry Stafford by John Moran, ca. February 11, 1878

  • Date: ca. February 11, 1878
  • Creator(s): Moran, John, 1831–1903
Text:

During these years, when they were apart, Whitman wrote Harry intimate letters: "Dear Harry, not a day

Walt Whitman by Napoleon Sarony, July 1878

  • Date: July 1878
  • Creator(s): Sarony, Napoleon
Text:

Perhaps the first American “celebrity photographer,” Sarony made much of his money selling portraits

Walt Whitman by Napoleon Sarony, July 1878

  • Date: July 1878
  • Creator(s): Sarony, Napoleon
Text:

Perhaps the first American “celebrity photographer,” Sarony made much of his money selling portraits

Elmer E. Stafford to Walt Whitman, 11 January 1878

  • Date: January 11, 1878
  • Creator(s): Elmer E. Stafford
Text:

wile while but i have quit and I do not go any more anymore now I am at home I wanted to go to the city

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 18 January 1878

  • Date: January 18, 1878
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 24 January 1878

  • Date: January 24, 1878
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood, New

Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 29 January 1878

  • Date: January 29, 1878
  • Creator(s): Harry Stafford
Annotations Text:

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

C.B. Whitman to Walt Whitman, 31 January 1878

  • Date: January 31, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | C.B. Whitman
Text:

Please state names and when and where your great-grandfather & gr. great gd.mother grandmother were born

married and died; when & where your grandfather and grandmother were born m. married & d.; died; when

& where their children, (your uncles and aunts) were b. born d. died & when & where your father and

mother were and when & where their children were or died or where now living giving in each case the

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 3 February 1878

  • Date: February 3, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | John Burroughs | Horace Traubel
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

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 8 February 1878

  • Date: February 8, 1878
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

names to study anything, and I always distrusted getting right names from our composite, mongrel population

will say this—somebody had a curious story published in Blackwood's Magazine —it was copied by an American

Blackwoods for 1876, maybe you will find it, and need to be prepared to be indignant for I think you were

Walt Whitman to John R. Johnston, Jr., 18 February 1878

  • Date: February 18, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

You ought to be here with me a day or so—(likely one day would be enough for you , as there is no city

John M. Rogers to Walt Whitman, 21 February 1878

  • Date: February 21, 1878
  • Creator(s): John M. Rogers
Text:

I wish that you whare were that I could see you and comfort you.

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