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I wish I were within hand-clasping distance; but if all your friends were to come at once, Camden could

Whitman says that "the volumes were intended to be most decided, serious, bona fide expressions of an

If the critic or the laborious reader were to devote himself to this "poem," what would he find in it

Cicero, Virgil, and Horace were not trammeled by the polished completeness of Latin.

In all his labor there were system, consecutiveness, and art; otherwise, he would have failed.

Whitman desires an original American literature, his plea is praiseworthy.

Carroll City, Iowa. Marilla Minchen to Walt Whitman, 25 June 1884

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

H., who has been much among the American Indians:] ¶ in smaller type I have just received a copy of Baldwins

You say also that you want America to have some original music, composed by an American and to be as

entirely American as Beethoven is German.

the Music of the Universe, by a German I will compose the Universal Music, and it will be by an American

A study of the drink-question by Axel Carl Johan Gustafson (born 1847), a Swedish-American temperance

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

Quite a sprinkling of American friends—some new ones this spring—among them Mr. & Mrs.

Joseph Pennell (1857–1926) was an American etcher and lithographer, who produced a number of books in

collaboration with his wife, Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1855–1936), an American writer; the Pennells

lived mostly in London, where they were friends of James McNeill Whistler, whose biography they wrote

Peter Lesley (1819–1903), a state geologist at the University of Pennsylvania and secretary of the American

We were at work this morning on 'Salut au Monde.'

You must not let his name be known—it would have serious consequences for him if he were known to have

Whitman in the New York Sonntagsblatt of November 1, 1868, mentioned Freiligrath's admiration for the American

Edward Thompson Taylor (1793–1871) was an American Methodist clergyman who was well regarded for his

This postal card is addressed: Al Joh[nston] | J[ewel]er | 0 Bowery, cor: Broome | New York City.

sent to Wm Sloane Kennedy, Belmont, Mass: J L & J B Gilder, Critic office, 18 Astor Place New York City

But I would be willing also to bear the expenses & 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

Whitman in the New York Sonntagsblatt of November 1, 1868, mentioned Freiligrath's admiration for the American

He was the author of many books and articles on German-American affairs and was superintendent of German

See The American-German Review 13 (December 1946), 27–30.

Whitman sent it to The Nineteenth Century on August 8 and to The North American Review on September 1

In a letter I had from M rs S d —she mentioned that you were prevented from coming to Glendale the day

is only one London all foreigners friendly and otherwise are agreed upon that; there may be better cities

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

Joseph Pennell (1857–1926) was an American author and etcher.

He and his wife Elizabeth Robins were friends of Whitman in Camden.

This letter is addressed: Joseph B Gilder | Critic Office | 20 Astor Place | New York City.

I wish you were better, and hope the coming coolness of October will revive you. More anon.

The "girls" are Manahatta "Hattie" (1860–1886) and Jessie Louisa "Sis" Whitman (1863–1957), the daughters

Hattie and Jessie were both favorites of their uncle Walt.

These were probably sent to the Philadelphia Press, where, on October 26, 1884, the poem was first published

Blaine's South American policy?" "I do, decidedly.

The United States, as the biggest and eldest brother, may well come forward and say to the South American

I think no American can object to it. I believe Blaine is going to be elected.

We liked the cheery expression—but were not entirely satisfied with the picture.

passengers on the steamer going home, and that both reader and audience enjoyed it sincerely, and were

. | New York City. It is postmarked: PHILADELPHIA | PA | NOV 18 84 | 7 PM; (?)

Van Ness and American Hotels, BURLINGTON, VERMONT.

should have been so cruelly unjust to himself as a husband—that remorse, those bitter self-reproaches, were

undeserved, were altogether morbid: he was not only an infinitely better husband than she was wife:

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

His writings on Carlyle were quite controversial and heated debate arose over Froude's inclusion of personal

Mannahatta Whitman (1860–1886) was Walt Whitman's niece.

Whitman—had served as the basis for Stephen Alonzo Schoff's engraving of the poet for Leaves of Grass (1860

New York City Dec. 29. 1884 Dear Mr.

Would to heaven that it were so!

As he himself says:— "If these brief lays, of sorrow born, Were taken to be such as closed Grave doubts

and answers here proposed, Then these were such as men might scorn."

Children's Hospital" passionately asserting that she could not serve in the wards unless Christianity were

crouch whom the rest bade aspire. ****** Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us, Burns, Shelley, were

think, too, there is wisdom in what Conkling says of the late contest at the polls, that the people were

surplus of a hundred millions & more]1891prose1 leafhandwritten; This manuscript is a partial draft of American

, which first appeared in the March 1891 issue of North American Review under the title, Have We a National

This manuscript contributed to American's Bulk Average, which first appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891

The article, published under the name "George Selwyn," was part of a series called "American Authors

If you were blessed with an unsurpassably good mother, I can with truth say the same of myself.

I want all the chief American & especially the English poets to have copies.

flimsy, cheap and temporary series of works that would have long since broken down, and disgraced the city

William Jarvis McAlpine (1812–1890), a civil engineer, planned the Riverside Drive in New York City.

write a little—sort o' sundown sonnets —have some nice visitors—Sometimes foreigners—two or three American

1884, when George and Louisa moved to a farm outside of Camden and Whitman decided to stay in the city

) No lurid fame exceptional, nor monstrous intellect, nor conquest's domination;) Through teeming cities

water—so large a portion of the people let the water run to prevent freezing of the pipes—and our city—being

From January 8 to 13, 1884, the city suffered a five-day water shortage because of open faucets.

Standpipe No. 2, the "Red Tower" at Blair and Bissell streets, was authorized by the city council on

According to John Brooks Wheeler, Memoirs of a Small-Town Surgeon (Garden City, New York: Garden City

Publishing Company, 1936), 284–289, Thayer performed most of the operations in Burlington during the 1860s

Perhaps you will have seen in the American papers that Sidney Thomas, the cousin with whom Percy was

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

This letter is addressed: Mrs: Alma Johnston | 305 East 17th Street | New York City.

Philip Henry Bagenal (1850–1927) was an Anglo-Irish author, known mostly for his The American Irish and

Krieg, chapter 8, "Dublin," Walt Whitman and the Irish (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000), 190

Kelly (1856–1916) was a New England doctor of children's diseases as well as an Irish-American activist

The Lay family were renting Whitman's Camden home when he bought it, and they stayed there for a month

said the "Good Grey Poet" to a North American reporter.

"If it were not for the new President I don't know what the papers would do for something to talk about

Walt was a newspaper man when most of the newspaper men of the present day were boys, and he preserves

William Dean Howells (1837–1920) was an American realist novelist and literary critic, serving the staff

of the New York Nation and Harper's Magazine during the mid 1860s.

1871 to 1880, he was one of the foremost critics in New York, and used his influence to support American

In an Ashtabula Sentinel review of the 1860 edition Leaves of Grass, Howells wrote, "If he is indeed

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), better know by his pen name, Mark Twain, was an American humorist

York—small quarto 9 by 12 inches, 95 pages—in the type called "English"—was not stereotyped—800 copies were

done—the author himself setting some of the type. 2 d ed'n, edition 16 mo was in 1856; 3 . 12 mo. 1860

do—I have had no more of the Round Table series since I sent the last to you —it is time some more were

Whitman's poems "The Pallid Wreath" (January 10, 1891) and "To The Year 1889" (January 5, 1889) were

This letter is addressed: Dr Karl Knortz | 540 East 155th Street | New York City.

Emory Holloway (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, 1921), 1:234–235.

If you do not like to make the whole distance alone, I will meet you in Jersey City.

Ursula and John were married on September 12, 1857.

public library (I think at Minneapolis and Cincinnati) a volume of biography, it seems to me now there were