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Hollis Robbins, "Fugitive Mail: The Deliverance of Henry 'Box' Brown and Antebellum Postal Politics," American
Your resignation has been received and will be laid before the President, on his return to this city.
Woods, Governor, Salt Lake City, Utah T.
I am weary and want rest, and I cannot rest in cities.
The grandest, and truest American I know, accept the love of your son.
Isham Reavis, Associate Justice Arizona City, A. T.
Denver City, Col.
The originals have been sent to the officer for whom they were requested. Very respectfully, B. H.
Jones, which were sent to this Department by the Secretary of War in a letter bearing date the 16th inst
The Attorney General is now absent from the city—but immediately on his return the letter will be laid
is reconsidered, and permission is granted you to be absent from the Territory for a period not exceeding
Department of Justice Washington sent Sept. 17, 18 71 I send herewith the copy of my American Institute
Send the revised proofs to me by mail, directed to this city, and I will promptly return them.
I have no authority to speak for them, but I think the American Institute will want several hundred copies
connected with it, with the following information: The place of your nativity, and the State whence you were
Since the press had not reported his speech before the American Institute sympathetically (see Whitman's
August 5, 1871 letter to the American Institute), Walt Whitman wanted Swinton, who was no longer editor
Through some inadvertence these papers were not transmitted to you before. Very respectfully, &c.
The three volumes, and the photographs were most welcome.
It later described the 1860 Leaves of Grass as "a book evidently intended to lie on the tables of the
possessor to get it into his pocket or to hide it away in a corner" (Saturday Review 10 [ July 7, 1860
However, on September 21, 1867, the Review published a review of American poets, "Some American Verse
," which exempts Whitman from the otherwise "feeble, commonplace, and pretty" school of American poetry
He springs out of that vast American continent full-charged with all that is special and national in
Consul at Liverpool, showing that Joseph Trott, a seaman, had been shot on board the American ship "Rochester
McKean, Chief Justice, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Office of the Secretary of the Board of Managers, 40th Annual Exhibition American Institute.
evening the following resolution was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That the Board of Managers of the American
Young, was on the Board of Managers of the 40th Annual Exhibition of the American Institute being held
The Committee of the American Institute had written to Walt Whitman on August 1, 1871, "to solicit of
Whitman accepted their invitation on August 5, 1871, and read what he called his "American Institute
Poem" (in his September 17,1871, letter to the Roberts Brothers) before the American Institute on September
M. which were the subject of your letter to me of May 25th, and of the letter of Mr.
Salt Lake City, Utah Terr.
transmit a copy of your official oath, and furnish me with the name of the state or county in which you were
with embezzling letters, and a fugitive from justice, can be found at the Prescott House, New York city
If it is known that said Monk is in the city of New York, Special Agent Wharton should so inform the
Woods, Salt Lake City, Utah.
been living in Camden, New Jersey, for three years, where he worked as an inspector of pipes for the city
The statutes bearing on the subject were of course thoroughly examined.
proceeds of the track of land on which the Distillery was situated; that proceedings for the forfeiture were
a letter from the War Department, of the date of the 26th instant, in reference to the bond of the city
1st day of July, 1870, the day on which the Act establishing the Department of Justice took effect, were
may have got the book I send you one of the special copies printed on fine paper, of which only 25 were
Trübner & Company were the London agents for Whitman's books.
It was the duty of the Marshal to make such arrests, and to appoint as many deputies as were necessary
I might further say that the irritation which I may have manifested when you were last in the office
If I were to bes tow upon all matters that come before me, the time and attention which I had already
Walt Whitman was invited to read at the opening of the American Institute, a long-running Brooklyn fair
that displayed flowers, plants, fruits, and products of American industry and manufacture.
The fair buildings, which occupied 100,000 square feet, were located on the block enclosed by Second
Ted Genoways [Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004], 7:31; and see Connecticut, Deaths and Burials
Index, 1650–1934 [Salt Lake City: FamilySearch, 2009]).
You might do well to put in about my intended appearance before the American Institute, at its 40th opening
Walt Whitman read "After All, Not to Create Only" before the American Institute on September 7, 1871,
authorized by this Department to institute proceedings against certain banks and private individuals in the city
Secretary of War, shows my views of the proper course to be taken in reference to the bond of the city
Carpenter, one dated July 19th, and the other August 3, 1871, in reference to the bond of the city of
Carpenter in the preparation of a proper bond,—and in the event that the city shall not furnish it, to
will be placed in your hands, to be used in furtherance of the objects of the appropriation in the city
Randolph, which were transmitted to this Department with your letter of May last.
Copies of the laws referred to were mailed to you at La Grange a few days ago.
has been directed to appear in defence of the interests of the Government, in the proceedings of the city
Ellis replied on August 23, 1871: since there were poems in Leaves of Grass which "would not go down
This appeal was taken when the cotton cases were under a different control from the present, on the part
New York City Sirs: I have received your communication of the 14th instant in reference to the proceedings
of the 27th of July last, relating to the suspended land entry of Henry Klnisurge p.94 in the Sioux City
invitation to deliver an appropriate original poem at the opening of the 40th Annual Exhibition of the American
Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to the Committee on Invitations, American
The Committee of the American Institute had written on August 1, 1871, "to solicit of you the honor of
in Camden (1906–1996), 1:328–329; Emory Holloway, Whitman–An Interpretation in Narrative (1926), American
It does not appear that these Indian Chiefs were sentenced by any U.S. court.
against that company for the protection of the rights of the United States in the outer harbor of the city
I think after your visit to him that his hold on life seemed to give way and his yearnings were all accomplished
He used to say—"I don't believe I can die" when his sufferings were so great—it seemed as if his release
rendered at the instance of any Department or officer of the United States, or whether the arrests were
Appleby, Salt Lake City, Utah Terr. Sir: I have received your letter of the 20th ulitmo.