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Walt Whitman to James W. Wallace, 4 June 1889

  • Date: June 4, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

signal & wide-spread horror of the kind ever known in this country—curious that at this very hour, we were

Walt Whitman to the Editor of Once A Week, 25 January 1891

  • Date: January 25, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

This letter is addressed: Editor | Once-a-Week | Warren st Paper | New York City.

Francis Viele-Griffin to Walt Whitman, 26 April 1888

  • Date: April 26, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Francis Viele-Griffin
Annotations Text:

Jules Laforgue (1860–1887) was a French-Uruguayan Symbolist poet.

Walt Whitman to John H. Johnston, 13 June 1887

  • Date: June 13, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Boston friends were raising money to buy a summer cottage they hoped would improve Whitman's failing

Ernest Rhys to Walt Whitman, 28 April 1887

  • Date: April 28, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Horace Traubel
Text:

We have taken great pains to make the reprint correct—following the American spelling, &c., faithfully

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 Charles W. Eldridge, 6 May 1887

  • Date: May 6, 1887
  • 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 an Unidentified Correspondent, 30 December [1878?]

  • Date: December 30, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

The date and summary of the letter are drawn from an auction catalog put out by the American Art Association

wrote to her daughter Beatrice, who was in Boston, she had just moved to 112 Madison Avenue, New York City

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy and Richard Maurice Bucke, 11 July 1887

  • Date: July 11, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Both were introduced to Whitman's writings by Edward Carpenter and they quickly became admirers of Whitman

Sheridan Ford to Walt Whitman, 13 April 1888

  • Date: April 13, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Sheridan Ford
Text:

proposition to cross this Autumn to England and deliver a course of lectures in a few of the larger cities

Editor of the New Orleans Picayune to Walt Whitman, 11 January 1887

  • Date: January 11, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

.— We have been informed that when you were younger and less famous than now, you were in New Orleans

Louisa Snowdon to Walt Whitman, 2 August 1887

  • Date: August 2, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Louisa Snowdon | Horace Traubel
Text:

past few years (breaking away gradually, as I have been, from surroundings orthodox and conventional) were

substance, and thought that "religion" was what is preached from the orthodox pulpit and practiced in the city

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy and Richard Maurice Bucke, 28 July 1887

  • Date: July 28, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Camden Horse Railroad Company, [?] December 1885

  • Date: December [?], 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Camden City Office Horse RR Walt Whitman to Camden Horse Railroad Company, [?] December 1885

Walt Whitman to Dr. John Johnston, 9 June 1891

  • Date: June 9, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Daniel Garrison Brinton (1837–1899) was a surgeon in the Union Army during the American Civil War and

His notes were also published, along with a series of original photographs, as Diary Notes of A Visit

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 Daniel Longaker, 7 June 1891

  • Date: June 7, 1891
  • 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 James W. Wallace, 28 May 1891

  • Date: May 28, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

affiliated with the Labour Church, an organization whose socialist politics and working-class ideals were

Walt Whitman to Dr. John Johnston, 6–8 September 1891

  • Date: September 6–8, 1891
  • 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 David McKay, 11 December 1889

  • Date: December 11, 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

Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 18 May 1889

  • Date: May 18, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Edward Carpenter
Annotations Text:

Both were introduced to Whitman's writings by Edward Carpenter, and they quickly became admirers of the

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 7 July [1889]

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

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

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 William Sloane Kennedy, 30 June 1890

  • Date: June 30, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Kennedy replied on July 9 that the books were to be sent to "Chas. E.

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 2 July 1890

  • Date: July 2, 1890
  • 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

A fair portion of its contents were devoted to Whitman appreciation and the conservation of the poet's

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 19 September 1890

  • Date: September 19, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

pathologist and medical editor affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, was a member of the American

Walt Whitman to Gabriel Sarrazin, 31 December 1890

  • Date: December 31, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

We checked Edwin Haviland Miller's transcription against the photograph but were unable to see the address

Walt Whitman to Courtland Palmer, 14 January 1888

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

This letter is addressed: Courtlandt Palmer | 117 East 21st Street | New York City.

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 9 October 1890

  • Date: October 9, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

On October 3, 1890, Whitman had accepted an invitation to write for The North American Review.

The North American Review was the first literary magazine in the United States.

Whitman's friend James Redpath joined the North American Review as managing editor in 1886.

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, 2 October 1890

  • Date: October 2, 1890
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Johnston (of New York) and Bucke were in the process of planning a lecture event in Whitman's honor,

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 5 December 1891

  • Date: December 5, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

the Eng: publishing proposal —am sitting here in g't chair same inertia ab't same—but feel as if I were

Annotations Text:

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

Whitman explained that "[William] Heineman, [Wolcott] Balestier, & [John] Lovell want to purchase the American

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

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 12 December 1891

  • Date: December 12, 1891; December 10, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Louise Imogen Guiney
Text:

his youth; slight, fair, decisive of step and speech; and his whole character was almost typically American

new firm of Heinemann & Balestier started out with a vast stock of courage, and many English and American

Annotations Text:

Wolcott Balestier (1861–1891) was an American writer who went to London, England, in 1888 as an agent

dated November 22, 1891, Whitman noted that "Heineman, Balestier, & Lovell want to purchase the American

Bucke is referring to one of the four plaster busts of Whitman that were sculpted by Sidney Morse.

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

Five of Whitman's poems were first published in the magazine: "Twilight" (December 1887), "Old Age's

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 29 April 1891

  • Date: April 29, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Quaint Club was a social club that met monthly at different hotels and luxury steamers around New York City

Mather, "Club Life in New-York City," The Memorial History of the City of New-York, ed.

A newspaper account of these dinners suggests that they were scenes of biting comedy, often at the guest

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 5 May 1891

  • Date: May 5, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

Walt Whitman to Dr. John Johnston, 29 April 1891

  • Date: April 29, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 21 April 1891

  • Date: April 21, 1891
  • 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

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy 2d Annex" to Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 14 May 1891

  • Date: May 14, 1891
  • 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

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy 2d Annex" to Leaves of Grass

William Rudolph O'Donovan (1844–1920) was an American sculptor.

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

Walt Whitman to Melville Philips, 21 May 1891

  • Date: May 21, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 12 April 1891

  • Date: April 12, 1891
  • 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

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy 2d Annex" to Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 15 April 1891

  • Date: April 15, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy 2d Annex" to Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman to Dr. John Johnston, 15 April 1891

  • Date: April 15, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

William Rudolph O'Donovan (1844–1920) was an American sculptor.

He was an associate of American artist Thomas Eakins and accompanied Eakins to Whitman's Camden home

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 18 April 1891

  • Date: April 18, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

John White Alexander (1856–1915) was an American painter and illustrator, well known for his portraits

of famous Americans including Oliver Wendell Holmes and John Burroughs, as well as Whitman, whose portrait

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

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

William Rudolph O'Donovan (1844–1920) was an American sculptor.

Walt Whitman to Dr. John Johnston, 8 April 1891

  • Date: April 8, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Thirty-one poems from Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 8–9 April 1891

  • Date: April 8–9, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William Rudolph O'Donovan (1844–1920) was an American sculptor.

He was an associate of American artist Thomas Eakins and accompanied Eakins to Whitman's Camden home

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

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy 2d Annex" to Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 7 April 1891

  • Date: April 7, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy 2d Annex" to Leaves of Grass

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

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former

Walt Whitman to John Addington Symonds, 30 March 1891

  • Date: March 30, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Whitman is referring to the group of thirty-one poems taken from the book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) that were

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 3 April 1891

  • Date: April 3, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

William Rudolph O'Donovan (1844–1920) was an American sculptor.

He was an associate of American artist Thomas Eakins and accompanied Eakins to Whitman's Camden home

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 29 March 1891

  • Date: March 29, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

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

Meanwhile Traubel and Bucke were preparing a collection of critical (eulogistic) essays.

Whitman is referring to the group of thirty-one poems taken from the book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) that were

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 27 March 1891

  • Date: March 27, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Whitman is referring to the group of thirty-one poems taken from the book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) that 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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 8 March 1891

  • Date: March 8, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy 2d Annex" to Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 23 March 1891

  • Date: March 23, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 10 March 1891

  • Date: March 10, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy 2d Annex" to Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 5 March 1891

  • Date: March 5, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

On October 3, 1890, Whitman had accepted an invitation to write for The North American Review.

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