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.— The Board of Directors of the City Railroad Company will probably take final action at their meeting

If Patrick Ford rightly reports himself in his North American Review article when he attributes the miseries

He was very grateful for your interest, and his last words to me were—"tell him to write to me."

There seems a sort of hopelessness about this, and being unused to hospitals my feelings were far from

The lines originally appeared in the Critic and as there given were rhythmically correct.

But I can have nothing I should like so well.I wish you were here now that the storms seem over.

We were talking quite a little time.

"I suppose Tom and Frank are at Atlantic City today? And the children? Ah! The dear dear children!

I was asked whether those verses were written for the book, or about yourself, and I said "no—they were

published in the magazine some time ago and were suggested by another writer."

I am very sorry that paragraph appeared as it did, or at all, as it might look as if I were not a friend

as follows: "I am very sorry that paragraph appeared as it did, or at all, as it might look as if I were

I wrote to the first at once—a final word, I called it, persuasive of the American trip.Bolton, EnglandAug

"Horace," said W., suddenly, "I think the time has come for the American magazine—for a magazine designed

masses—to give the smack of the heath—the native heath: to get its color from a life particularly American

By and bye the American magazine will come as the gift of some far-sighted far-hearted individual, who

My brave young American soldiers—now for so many months I have gone around among them, where they lie

The Gardner people were fiery mad over it—to me it seemed funny."

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

But I would be willing also to bear the expenses and keep the copyright, if the former were not out of

The Irish are much less Catholic than they were—dogmatic religion is loosening its hold upon them in

Harned happening in while we were in the midst of this talk W. explained: "We are canvassing the yeas

game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go, fling, of the American

The Saturday crowds were very interesting. W. asked me about it all.

There were some sheets of manuscript pinned together and a little stained envelope with an enclosure.

Aug. 3: sent Burns as Poet and Person to North American Review. Accepted and paid for ($70).'"

April 13th, went on to New York city—R.P.

direction from "Democratic Vistas"—You will confer much if you grant an interview—Miss Graeff of this city

Sunday, April 29, 1888.W. took a drive at eleven, forenoon, and came in at Harned's after we were done

We were gathered about him, he eating and drinking and talking.

Even Goethe and Schiller, exalted men, both, very, very, were a little touched by the professional consciousness

Tucker did brave things for Leaves of Grass when brave things were rare. I couldn't forget that."

W. said to a visitor in my hearing: "The American people wash too much."

"I only said you were misunderstood—that what you meant was that the American people did not sufficiently

important passages to bring it within reasonable limits; but I think you will agree that the compressions were

Harned read aloud some paragraphs from Ingersoll's North American Review paper on Art and Morality.

—reference herein to his rather shattered faith that Americans in photography led the world.

But of the recent Samoan disaster, the papers were full.

and wish to see America prosperous, I do not seem able to bring myself to love America, to desire American

—The excitement simultaneously occurring in so many cities as to how far amusements may lawfully be infulged

bier of the outskirts, as he would be by the poisonous spirits vended in the obscure rumshops of the city

The only result of the Sunday car controversy in this city that can in any degree be regretted, is that

.— Two laborers employed in laying water pipes, named John Eagan and Patrick Hays, were prostrated by

They were taken to the City Hospital and recovered yesterday, sufficiently to go to their homes.

The harpies of the watering places were coining fortunes out of their visitants and it was time that

Drakeloc.00158xxx.00048"Summer Duck"Between 1852 and 1855poetryprosehandwritten2 leaves; These pages were

The lines at the end of this manuscript were also reworked and used for a different section of the same

—Do you suppose because the American government has been formed, and public schools established, we have

—The prisoners were allowed no light at night.— No physicians were allowed provided.— Sophocles, Eschylus

—Great as their remains are, they were transcended by other works that have not come down to us.

Virtue and about Vice These pages were written by Whitman in the early to mid-1850s.

The lines at the end of this manuscript were also reworked and used for a different section of the same

These pages were written by Whitman in the early to mid-1850s.

The lines at the end of this manuscript were also reworked and used for a different section of the same

In France, we are told, from 1836 to 1852 inclusive, there were 52,126 suicides, or a mean of 3066 a

In great cities the proportion of suicides is far larger than in the country districts.

first Leaves of Grass in 1855, Walt Whitman has been justly honored as the first great innovator in American

In the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, Whitman begins to show his concern for larger units of poetic

Always conscious of the printed format of the poems, Whitman numbers stanzas in the 1860 edition, and

Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1994.Hollis, C. Carroll. Language and Style in "Leaves of Grass."

An American Primer. By Walt Whitman. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1904. v–ix.Warren, James Perrin.

If I were to suspect death, I should die now.

I knew a man…he was a common farmer… he was the father of five sons…and in them were the fathers of sons

…and in them were the fathers of sons.

and visit him to see…He was wise also, He was six feet tall…he was over eighty years old…his sons were

Have you learn'd lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for

HAVE you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for

Since, as Fredson Bowers points out in his introduction to Whitman's Manuscripts: "Leaves of Grass" (1860

The "Short Boys" were a notorious nineteenth-century New York City nativist gang, involved in various

There were many such gangs (Swill Boys, Rock Boys, Old Maid Boys), all known for prowling the city streets

expensive fare and wealthy customers (Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City

Somehow or other he always looks as if he were attempting to think out some problem a little too hard

(1789–1861) was president of the New York Academy of Medicine and an amateur historian of New York City

.; The "Short Boys" were a notorious nineteenth-century New York City nativist gang, involved in various

There were many such gangs (Swill Boys, Rock Boys, Old Maid Boys), all known for prowling the city streets

expensive fare and wealthy customers (Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City

(1789–1861) was president of the New York Academy of Medicine and an amateur historian of New York City

Robert Bonner (1824–1899) edited the New York Ledger from 1855 to 1887 ("The Robert Bonner Papers 1860

A N American Rough, whose name is W ALT W HITMAN , and who calls himself a "Kosmos," has been publishing

The fields of American literature want weeding dreadfully.

and effect: "Song of Prudence" (1856, largely taken from the 1855 Preface), "I Sit and Look Out" (1860

), "Me Imperturbe" (1860), and "A Song of Joys" (1860).

as the trees and animals do.That several of the most stoical poems of Whitman's antebellum career were

It also helps him stem anxieties about both his reputation and the direction of American democracy.

The Stoic Strain in American Literature. Ed. Duane J. MacMillan.

Poets' Homes: Pen and Pencil Sketches of American Poets and Their Homes. 2 vols, in one. Boston: D.

approve[d]" of Stoddard's "adhesive nature," but felt compelled to remind him of the virtues of "American

Although Stoddard was vastly inferior to Whitman as a poet, they were kindred spirits in their need for

Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. New York: Crowell, 1976. Traubel, Horace.

in the essay "The Poetry of the Future" first published in the February 1881 issue of The North American

This manuscript also includes lines that were used in Specimen Days & Collect, see the description for

J.MooreStevens, Wallace (1879–1955)Stevens, Wallace (1879–1955) Wallace Stevens, a major twentieth-century American

At a first reading, Stevens's poems seem to be distant from the Whitman tradition of American poetry

or even from things American.

"An American Poet's Idea of Language." Critical Essays on Wallace Stevens. Ed.

Attorney General George Marston and Anthony Comstock, threatened legal action if specific passages were

Whitman, recognizing that Marston and Comstock were the prime movers in the affair, expressed no significant

he has recently Examined it and I can show Certificates of Half a Dozen of the Best Doctors in the City

a Lasting favor Yours truly Stephen K Winant 435 West 32d Street Between 9 & 10th Avenue New York City

in the volume, and he also received more space than any other poet in the ten-volume Library of American

An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside, 1900. ———, ed.

A Library of American Literature: From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. 10 vols.

and vaccination, gunpow der and spinning-jennies; but are our people half as peaceable and happy as were

Then the city of New York will enjoy the commercial superiority which is disputed by other cities.

Steam on Atlantic Street Steam on Atlantic Street STEAM CARS IN CITIES.

The Central Road passes directly through the city, and with the changing of engines, the wood and gravel

other service of the road, about two hundred passages of locomotives across the main street of the city

horse-cars there instead of locomotives; but the interest of the city at large points in the contrary

The railroad has contributed to populate the island, and to build up even Atlantic street itself.

Here we have locomotives passing through a not overcrowded or populous avenue of the city, at a carefully

constituents, but this feeling, laudable as it is, may be carried to excess, and the interests of the city

the sense in which they did last evening, we may as well call a mass meeting weekly to conduct the city

this Atlantic street matter, but the firemen’s squabbles which occupied two thirds of the meeting, were

These subjects were introduced solely to make capital for the ensuing election; and they were discussed

Warren Cleveland, we are enabled to present an abstract from the annual report of deaths in the city

This shows an apparent excess of mortality over that of last year of 2071, notwithstanding our city has

Of the victims of this disease 321 were native born and 393 were born, in foreign countries.

1459 were of foreign birth.

favorably with the mortality of other cities.

or clusters of poems, including "The States," "Prairies," "Prairie Spaces," "Prairie Babes," and "American

the late 1850s, it's possible that this last title is related to the Chants Democratic and Native American

cluster in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass.

But it is evidently not so in New York city.

Having done all the harm he could to the good name of the city, and to the personal interests of the

They seem disposed, in sheer spite (if not stopped by serious public disapproval) to put the city to

This assumption ignores the fact that the Mayors of those cities are intended by the new law directly

unable to speak the English language so as to be comfortably understood by Americans.

In this and the neighboring city, we have seen how Legislatures will interfere with local affairs, even

under the Constitution; what would they hesitate at doing, if a precedent were established in Kansas

violated directly it is established; for the very essence of Popular Sovereignty would be destroyed, were

IvanMarki"Starting from Paumanok" (1860)"Starting from Paumanok" (1860)Although it is a complex and fascinating

manuscript (Barrett Collection, University of Virginia), the poem was first printed in the third (1860

He is a typical, "generic" American, who declares that he will sing in "endless announcements" to "[w

Whitman's Manuscripts: "Leaves of Grass" (1860). Ed. Fredson Bowers. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1955.

"Starting from Paumanok" (1860)

Starting From Paumanok was first published as Proto-Leafin 1860. Starting from Paumanok