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It is singular & unnecessary— you were entirely welcome, & always have been — —I have been away most

seem to refer to the contiguous communities of Kirkwood and Glendale interchangeably, as if Kirkwood were

Mexico, a letter of congratulations on the "anniversary of the 333d year of the settlement of their city

This letter is addressed: Karl Knortz | Cor: Morris avenue | & 155th Street | New York City.

Knortz also informed the poet that in his "critical history of American literature . . . a whole chapter

which I meant to have sent you at the time, but missed somehow—I am well as usual— W W (Salt Lake City

On September 22 O'Connor wrote: "I return your Salt Lake City letter about Bacon and Shakespeare, having

I am at present very busy as I want to complete my critical history of American literature as soon as

AN AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Boston 1876. C. Schoenhof. Shakespeare in Amerika.

MODERN AMERICAN LYRICS. Leipzig 1880. F. U. Brodhaus.

spirit, but because the facts I give are of current interest, and should be kept well before the American

I return your Salt Lake City letter about Bacon and Shakespeare, having carefully read it thrice.

The North American man called it "so very valuable a manuscript," apologizing for declining it on the

You will see it makes some outrageously false statements about you at which your friends were naturally

Doehn, the author of a history of American Literature I told you of.

See Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995

See also Harold Blodgett, "Whitman and Dowden," American Literature, 1 (1922), 171–182.

If any American bookseller wants any copies he can get them from Carl Tittmann.

visited Ausable Chasm, yesterday, weather not permitting sooner, and had a splendid perfect time, and were

Some thought it was simply because you were a great man, and they gave me addresses of several well known

men in Literature &c. however, I told them these other men were not Walt Whitman and that the only others

The mass of men are no longer capable of being gulled & duped and victimized as they were once.

If the masses were essentially unsound the prophet & the wise man would have only a barren soil to work

If any American bookseller would like it, which is not, I suppose, very probable, he must write to the

I sent you from here the proof of "Eminent Visitors" —See by the paper of 17th the errors I marked were

some good friends and I am shure sure with your letter, I can get something good in either of the cities

some good friends and I am shure sure with your letter, I can get something good in either of the cities

This letter is addressed: O S Baldwin | N E cor: Broadway & Canal | New York City.

83, they were staunch patriotsor " rebels," and several of the name were soldiersunder Washington, two

Those were his exact words.

If,for instance,by " some vast, instantaneous convulsion, American civilization " were lost,where isthe

They are certainly filledwith an American spiritbreathe the American air,and assert the fullest American

Of those that were plaeed in the stores none were sokl.

of money; she and the daughter and the latter's husband Richard Colyer settled down in the farm and were

must have been buried at Huntington village, for I remember seeing numerous old grave stones that were

—The stones I saw were brought away, lest they might be despoiled, and somehow, when the war passed over

, they were never returned.

—The largest trees near it, that I remember, appear to have been cut down.— The Whitmans were among the

This essay was revised and included in Democratic Vistas, and Other Papers (1888) before parts of it were

The notes were apparently intended for a revision to the essay Robert Burns as Poet and Person, which

Robert Burns in The Critic (16 December 1882), and as Robert Burns as Poet and Person in The North American

1Undated, on the American Idiomloc.05187xxx.00469[?

titles of two articles; one was published as Slang in America, first in the periodical the North American

These drafts were later greatly revised and combined when published in 1889 with the title To the Year

certain that you in America will have all this to go through some day when you get more densely populated

Karl Knortz (1841–1915), the German-American scholar and admirer of Whitman, became Rolleston's collaborator

See Horst Frenz, "Karl Knortz, Interpreter of American Literature and Culture," American-German Review

, 13 (December 1946), 27–30 and Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman (Iowa City, IA

After a second trip to the United States in the summer of 1886, Arnold commented on American life being

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

Lathrop is likely referring to the American Copyright League, which he had founded in 1883.

Buinicki, "Walt Whitman and the Question of Copyright," American Literary History 15 (Summer 2003): 248

days—had a jolly time—a sleigh ride, or two—fine traveling, but too cold to enjoy it—Ruth and Burt were

Stafford, had a son named Edmund (1860–1939).

If this humbug government were worth a copper spangle it wd would have settled a handsome pension on

He "returned to England confirmed by experience in his conception of the average American as a hard uninteresting

After a second trip to the United States in the summer of 1886, Arnold commented on American life being

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American poet and essayist who began the Transcendentalist movement

For Whitman's writings on Carlyle, see "Death of Thomas Carlyle" and "Carlyle from American Points of

The address on the envelope is J L & J B Gilder | Critic Office | 20 Lafayette PLace | New York City

Whitman must have concluded that the copies were not sent by the Gilders because, on January 11, he entered

This postal card is addressed: J L & J B Gilder | Critic office | 20 Lafayette Place | New York City.

Whitman on December 21, 1883, sent "A Backward Glance on My Own Road" to The North American Review and

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

For Whitman's writings on Carlyle, see "Death of Thomas Carlyle" (pp. 168–170) and "Carlyle from American

you —(I sent you the Indian piece, I believe)—When you get ready to go on further, or to any Western city

to me in such good spirits, & are well— they two are every thing —Keep on—explore the big western cities

Lawrence Barrett (1838–1891), an American actor, was noted for his Shakespearean roles.

Graham Sumner (1840–1910) was a professor of social sciences at Yale who also authored books on American

William Dean Howells (1837–1920), novelist and "Dean of American Letters" who wrote The Rise of Silas

I got your bit about the American aborigines. Thanks.

See Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995

Harry's parents, George (1827–1892) and Susan Stafford (1833–1910), were tenant farmers at White Horse

describes the Williams family home as "a sort of asylum (like old churches, temples) when so many homes were

All these were meant for thee, and more I need not now extract.

And I take pleasure in what men would call my personal defects for I can, standing by as it were an outsider

And if it were possible, I know thou wouldst come. Yet it shall come to pass somehow, soon or late.

plucked from the soil of his inmost bosom to send to Walt Whitman the American, poet, brother and lover

the curious, beautiful self-deception of youth: Stoker, this boy: it's the same: they thought they were

writing to me: so they were, incidentally: but they were really writing more definitely to themselves

For Whitman's writings on Carlyle, see "Death of Thomas Carlyle" and "Carlyle from American Points of

1871) did an early oil painting of Walt Whitman, the engraving of which was the frontispiece for the 1860

This postal card is addressed: J H Johnston | Jeweler | 150 Bowery cor Broome | New York City.

Howe's Camden City Directory for 1883 listed as the occupant at 328 Mickle Street Mrs.

The American orator, Wendell Phillips (1811–1884), with his active interest in antislavery and other

In late February 1884, a bomb went off at London's Victoria Station, and other bombs were defused at

But I turn many wistful thoughts toward America, and were not I & mine bound here by unseverable ties

In her letter of April 5, 1884, Anne Gilchrist mentioned "wistful thoughts" that, "were not I & mine

think, after all, that my former objections to giving the English of the L. of G. with the translation were

Whitman heard Edward Thompson Taylor (1793–1871) preach in the Seaman's Chapel in Boston in 1860 (Gay

In my opinion, it marks a new era in American Literature; and is to stand out more and more prominently

, as time advances, as the distinctively American book Most Respectfully, S.

dedicate to him the first edition of Leaves of Grass, the latter was ready to consent if certain passages were

Philadelphia or Camden or any close city—Hank I am sorry you have that trouble with your throat but I

28 (1885) Dear friend Thank you & dear Alys for the nice sheets & cases, which arrived yesterday, were

Logan and Alys were Mary's siblings.