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deal better this summer than usual the Boys are all well Harry has not been in the store since you were
Dear Walt Your postal received was glad to hear from you and learn that at the time you wrote you were
well and enjoying yourself but sorry to hear you were sick at last accounts Your Dear Boy Harry Harry
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
Deborah Stafford (1860–1945) was the sister of Harry Stafford, a young man whom Whitman befriended in
Debbie and Harry's parents, George and Susan Stafford, were tenant farmers at White Horse Farm near Kirkwood
Street Mr W Whitman Dear Friend— I was ever so sorry today to see by the Paper you sent me, that you were
Lewis T. and Percy Ives were father and son, both artists.
In 1860, when he was tried in Boston because of his refusal to testify before a committee of the U.S.
I found your letter and Mrs Gilchrists and Mr Carpenters on my return, and we were much alarmed at first
by reports, that you were very sick, but yesterdays yesterday's Ledger, I think gave the true thing,
It seems to me that if one were to travel the world over one could not find anything to compare with
Watkins Glen is wonderful too, we were fortunate in Hotels, and , I brought home some views of the Glen
When I came home and found that the report was that you were very sick, I said that if I had known that
On July 12, 1874, he wrote for the first time to Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground
all the way, 800 miles, by good steamboat—(the doctor thinks it will do me good)—This is a splendid city
Hiskey's fellow employees on the Camden ferries, many of whom were cited in Specimen Days, ed.
The article argued for an American music which would distance itself from European influences.
This letter bears the address: Thos: J Whitman | office Water Commissioner | City Hall | St Louis | Missouri
Canada August 4 '80 Dear Mont I have come on here (about 500 miles further) & am stopping in this city
—This is a large & busy city, the most important in Canada, ships and steamboats & immense numbers of
(you will see it on the map of Canada toward north east)—then back again to stay awhile in the old city
In 1722 six vessels of tolerable tonnage were launched in the St.
Lawrence canals were opened for traffic in 1846, according to the Hon.
Catharines, which were 200 feet long and 45 feet in width, thereby rendering St.
The following were the receipts of breadstuffs in this city during the past year, flour being reduced
In addition there were received the loads of 915 canal-boats and 13 lake vessels.
This postal card is addressed: Al: Johnston | 1309 Fifth anvenue | New York City | U S A.
If only we were at 22nd St. to welcome you back & talk it all over at tea! Ah, those evenings!
An aspiring physician, Beatrice took the needed preparatory classes but was barred (as were all women
On July 12, 1874, he wrote for the first time to Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground
Harry's parents, George (1827–1892) and Susan Stafford (1833–1910), were tenant farmers at White Horse
Mannahatta Whitman (1860–1886) was Walt Whitman's niece.
tumble yet thanks to my horse fer for he is an easy goer. the french man of war here when you where were
In January 1881, Whitman sent copies of his article in The North American Review, "The Poetry of the
is a singularly healthy, beautiful interesting country, this Canada, (it is as large as the U S—population
I meant to have asked you, while talking of Roslyn, if you were ever there? Oh!
morning, there came a nice editorial, advocating fountains, such as they had in Philadelphia: and the City
Fathers were moved, and now we have all we want.
peaceful Sunday—woods, field, sky, delightful—The S[tafford]s much as usual—Mrs S quite well—if you were
went on like a streak through New York and Pennsylvania—got into Philadelphia after 11 at night—(we were
an hour late,)—but the city looked bright & all alive, & I felt as fresh as a lark— I am well, my summer
with the Staffords from October 9 to 13, not at the seashore, unless he was with Harry in Atlantic City
These young men, like Nicholson, were employees in Richard Bucke's hospital.
himself in the universe, saying "Here at least, in the spirit, I have freedom and empire inalienable," were
I saw in the 'Academy' a paragraph saying that you were going to write something about the English poets
mean English- writing poets for I should greatly like to hear some of your definite ideas about the Americans
To say the truth, I never could quite accept your utter condemnation of all American authors, expressed
And do not the Americans do this also, to a certain extent?
See Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995
HEARD, BROKER IN PETROLEUM OIL CITY, PA., Oct. 25th 188 0 Mr. Walt Whitman, Camden N.J.
" 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
I do not know him, but he says he expects to go to Phila. soon to work on the American , a news paper
See Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995
Stedman (1833–1908), the American poet and critic, wrote "Walt Whitman" for Scribner's Monthly, 21 (November
he early took the position of an iconoclast, avowing that the time had come in which to create an American
hours—Nothing new here—Your folks have been up to town twice this week—Van once & your father once—they were
Harry was working at the time in Atlantic City, N.J.
This letter is addressed: R W Gilder | office Scribner's Magazine | 743 Broadway | New York City.
Whitman, We were so delighted at receiving your books —& from you .
We have always intended owning them & were only waiting to return to our little house in town.
We read some of your poems to a group of people—artists etc., in London who were all intensely interested
Rossetti, your good friend, & others who all were anxious to hear of you.
Burroughs & Richard were camping out in September & there was a great deal of talk of W.W. under the
of poet and editor Richard Watson Gilder, was a painter as well as the founder of the Society of American
His parents were Sir Thomas Wyse, an Irish politician, and Marie Bonaparte, a French author.
They are the American poetry which the Old World has been challenging us so long to produce; they "stir
Broadway New York about a year ago bo't bought at auction the electrotype plates (456 pages) of the 1860
by a young firm Thayer & Eldridge under my supervision there and then in Boston, (in the spring of 1860
stored away and nothing further done;—till about a year ago (latter part of 1879) they were put up in
N Y New York city by Leavitt, auctioneer, & bought in by said Worthington.
I wrote back that said plates were worthless, being superseded by a larger & different edition—that I
Worthington bought the plates of the 1860 edition after they had been sold at auction by George A.
Richard Maurice Bucke informed Eldridge that he had lately discovered many copies of the 1860 edition
to be reimbursed: "I expended $9.50 in pursuit of the recalcitrant, pirate Worthington, in New York City
willing to go to law at someone else's expense.Worthington continued to use the plates until they were
We, boys & girls were young, and merry, but we all felt the fresh country air, and later the deep pathos
I dare say that if a summary were served upon him he would be brought to his senses I don't know whether
Legget Brothers Bookstore last summer or spring & I was told either there or at Worthington's that they were
forgot to say that I expended $9.50 in pursuit of the recalcitrant, pirate —Worthington, in New York City
This letter bears the address: R W Gilder | Scribner's Magazine office | 743 Broadway | New York City
my grandmother Whitman) had only one brother, who died a young man—(the grave-stones from his grave were
The notes are similar to many of Whitman's other jottings about family in the 1850s and 1860s.
The notes are similar to many of Whitman's other jottings about family in the 1850s and 1860s.
In addition, in the 1870s, Whitman repeatedly complained about how he was treated by American magazines
He sometimes exaggerated his neglect, as in the third-person account "Walt Whitman's Actual American
He argued there that he had been all but banned from American magazines.
In addition, in the 1870s, Whitman repeatedly complained about how he was treated by American magazines
He sometimes exaggerated his neglect, as in the third-person account "Walt Whitman's Actual American
He argued there that he had been all but banned from American magazines.
Parts of the essay were used for Death of Thomas Carlyle published in Specimen Days in 1882 (later retained
the essay first published as The Poetry of the Future in the February 12, 1881, issue of the North American
the essay first published as The Poetry of the Future in the February 12, 1881, issue of the North American
The essay appeared in the February 1881 issue of The North American Review.
These corrections were made after the piece's initial publication, and reflect changes that Whitman made
1Undated, on the American idiomloc.05215xxx.00067?
about the book emphasized Whitman’s increasingly conservative stance, and many of the sexual passages were
edition, but the book eventually appeared in November without one.Initial sales of the Osgood edition were
strong, and reviews were almost universally positive.
about the book emphasized Whitman’s increasingly conservative stance, and many of the sexual passages were
edition, but the book eventually appeared in November without one.Initial sales of the Osgood edition were
strong, and reviews were almost universally positive.
about the book emphasized Whitman’s increasingly conservative stance, and many of the sexual passages were
edition, but the book eventually appeared in November without one.Initial sales of the Osgood edition were
strong, and reviews were almost universally positive.
about the book emphasized Whitman’s increasingly conservative stance, and many of the sexual passages were
edition, but the book eventually appeared in November without one.Initial sales of the Osgood edition were
strong, and reviews were almost universally positive.
TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning
obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after
We dwell a while in every city and town, We pass through Kanada Canada , the North-east, the vast valley
And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
A WOMAN waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking,
WE TWO, HOW LONG WE WERE FOOL'D.
ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY.
ONCE I pass'd through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture
for city and land for land.
CITY OF ORGIES.
CITY of orgies, walks and joys, City whom that I have lived and sung in your midst will one day make
Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me?
if I could be with you and become your comrade; Be it as if I were with you.
the scaffold;) I would sing in my copious song your census returns of the States, The tables of population
that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception, I assert that all past days were
what they must have been, And that they could no-how have been better than they were, And that to-day
barefoot, Down from the shower'd halo, Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twisting as if they were
what joys were thine! ABOARD AT A SHIP'S HELM.