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John Cummins, Boise City, Idaho Terr.

Miller, Silver City, Idaho Terr. Sir: The Hon E. D.

Attorney General your letter to him of the 31st ultimo, asking information of the vacancy which you were

I am directed to say, in reply, that you were nominated to, and confirmed by, the Senate, "to be associate

At this time Jeff was constructing the large storage reservoir within the city on Compton Hill.

George had a part-time job supervising the laying of water mains for the city of Brooklyn (Gay Wilson

Jay Cooke & Co. was a large bank at the corner of Wall and Nassau streets, New York City.

Jefferson City, Mo.

inform you that the opinion of the Attorney General in the case of the National Cemetery at Jefferson City

Morrison, booksellers of this city. Very respectfully, M. F. Pleasants, Chief Clerk.

propounding certain questions relative to the arrest of three colored British subjects at Key West, who were

Hooper, Care of Scott & Dash, 112 Pearl street, New York City.

Copies of the volume were withdrawn so that the sequel could be added.

several poems, adding eighteen new poems to those that appeared in Drum-Taps, and all of these poems were

Later, these poems were folded into Leaves of Grass, and by the time the final arrangement of Leaves

Whitman (1829–1901), a Union soldier in the American Civil War, who had been wounded in the Battle of

Whitman started a business building houses on speculation with a man named Smith in 1865, and they were

Silbey, "Seymour, Horatio," American National Biography Online.

He sought the 1868 presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, but his support for African American

letter of the 25th ultimo, that his Opinion in the case of the title to the National Cemetery near City

that kind this fall I went a few weeks ago on a little sail up and down the river with a party that were

be—fellows that thought that they had to look the newspaper as well as report for one  The speeches were

Freiligrath claimed that "For his admirers, Whitman is the only American poet, derived from the soil,

On June 25, 1868, the mayor and city council of St.

Louis Democrat, and he listened to numerous speeches proclaiming the virtues of the city and its illustrious

Lane later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer, and

For Lane's career, see "Moses Lane," Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers (February

Manahatta Whitman (1860–1886), known as "Hattie," was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Whitman

Hattie and her younger sister Jessie Louisa (1863–1957) were both favorites of their uncle Walt.

Whitman lived with William D. and Nelly O'Connor, who, with Charles Eldridge and later John Burroughs, were

Not a little ludicrous eulogy of this sort has been poured of late upon the American poet whose name

The brag, and bluster, and self-assertion of the man are American only; the fulsome 'cracking-up' of

pavements; Dweller in Mannahatta ‡ , city of ships, my city— or on southern savannas; Or a soldier camped

probably had in his pockets while we were talking.

that men and women were flexible, real, alive! that everything was alive!

.* Some eight or ten years ago there was delivered to the world a volume of what were called poems by

In Walt Whitman we are called upon to recognise "the founder of American poetry rightly to be so called

By way of showing us what a superior animal is this American poet, Mr.

. . . of the questions of those recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities filled with

The performed American and Europe grow dim, retiring in shadow behind me; The unperformed, more gigantic

by the District Attorney and military authorities of California, nor by the Chief of Police of the city

Whitman well i m I'm in for it now he took down the number they were going up to prospect park Prospect

It stretched to the city's eastern boundary.

Beveridge, "Olmsted, Frederick Law," American National Biography Online).

The estimates made for the office were as moderate as a respect for efficiency and promptness in the

way to and that is to send them to the nursery to flatbush Flatbush there is no instituti on in the city

clothed and fed if they ever can be cleaned says the they are so dirty that you would not know they were

James "Jimmy" and George "Georgy" were Nancy and Andrew's sons, and Nancy was pregnant with Andrew, Jr

from the Union Army in December of 1864, Cornwell returned to his position as a judge in the Brooklyn City

Counsellor at Law, City Hall, Washington, D. C.

communicate with the commanding General of the military Reconstruction District in which the proceedings were

—Indeed those of the undersigned who witnessed the proceedings, or were engaged in the defence, bear

that freedmen got justice'— and on the occasion of the killing, when the infuriated mob of freedmen were

of War has been requested to call upon the General commanding the District in which the proceedings were

copy of our letter of this date to the Secretary of War, respecting the Navy yard property of the city

Stanbery, on the 6th March last, expressed his opinion in favor of the restoration of the property to the city

You state that certain items of account were allowed by the jury in favor of the defendant, against whom

the honor to enclose herewith a number of papers relating to a part of the town site of Deer Lodge City

McBride, Chief Justice, Boise City, Idaho Terr.

Counsellor at Law, Box 217, New York City.

Attorney General for your services, and by a letter from this office of the 3d September 1867, you were

of the 15th instant complaining that a person named Rice, resident or doing business in Washington City

Laughlin and wife, covering the site selected for a Brand Mint at Dalles City, Oregon, which, with other

which he observed: "If we except 'Leaves of Grass' and Emerson's works, there is little as yet in American

had induced him to recommend that said pardon be granted, upon payment of all costs of prosecution, were

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

Notes on Walt Whitman, As Poet and Person (New York: American News, 1867).

I tried several magazines, but they were already made up for their May numbers.

About half of the poems from the 1867 American edition of Leaves of Grass were removed for the British

hasent hasn't done right i see in the papers if he leaves he will be esscorted escorted through the citys

cities you must have congratulations from all quarters poor old alcot Alcott he must be very old seems

Aynes, "Bingham, John Armor," American National Biography Online).

Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) was an American educator and abolitionist and the father of Louisa May

Lane later designed and constructed the Milwaukee Water Works and served there as city engineer, and

he again employed George to inspect pipe in Camden, New Jersey ("Moses Lane," Proceedings of the American

Velsor Whitman's disbelief is understandable since Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Whitman's salary far exceeded

She had two children from a previous marriage: Lewis and Eva Morrell, and she and Benton were the parents

Wilson named his first child "Walter Whitman Wilson," after the poet; their other children were Austin

Is he American? Is he new? Is he rousing? Does he feel, and make me feel?"

That he is American in one sense we must admit.

He is American as certain forms of rowdyism and vulgarity, excrescences on American institutions, are

American.

But that he is American in the sense of being representative of American taste, intellect, or cultivation

President Central American Transit Co. 56 Exchange Place New York Sir: In reply to your letter of 28th

This is upon the general subject of a needed American Literature, in the highest sense , & of our imaginative

Grier, "Walt Whitman, the Galaxy, and Democratic Vistas," American Literature, 23 (1951–1952), 332–350

Emerson is just home from your city of steeples and tracks, but I have not spoken with him yet.

This letter is addressed: Walt Whitman | Washington City | D.C.

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

I shall have to try a head of him presently for my American Gallery: Emerson, Thoreau, and Walt" (The

Whitman's essays "Democracy" and "Personalism" were published in the Galaxy in December 1867 and May

These three essays were later combined in Democratic Vistas, which was first published in 1871 in New

Whitman (1829–1901), a Union soldier in the American Civil War, who had been wounded in the Battle of

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

, The best farms—others toiling and planting, and he unavoidably reaps, The noblest and costliest cities—others

feeling are caught, and of the grand yet melancholy suggestiveness which sets the whole picture, as it were

regarded as part of the evidence, (in this case of more than ordinary importance,) the counsel mentioned were

Whitman deleted the next line of this draft—"I will think about the American agent too, & write"—his

Walt (Walter) Whitman, except the occasional brilliant scraps which English papers copy from their American

Rossetti insists that it must be taken as an altogether new poetry: as something as distinctively American

of West Hills, Long Island, in the state of New York, somewhere about thirty miles from the great American

If I were to suspect death I should die now: Do you think I could walk pleasantly and well suited to-

At the City Dead House in his "Leaves of Grass," we see him standing—gazing—yearning, in tenderest pity

youth, and through middle and through old age, how unfaltering, how affectionate and faithful they were

And, as it has been with those, so it is now and henceforth with this true American Poet Walt Whitman

Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780-1857) was a popular and influential French poet and songwriter whose lyrics were

reference to holly alludes to Burns's poem, "The Vision" (1786): "Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs/Were

Dearest mother, Well, it is a dark cloudy day, & raining hard—the darkies were to have a great celebration

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

Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907) was an American abolitionist, minister, and frequent correspondent

. —& on or about the 11th March, I wrote you, what I had learned—viz: that they were to be exempted—&

Price, | (new number) | No. 331 East 55th street, | New York City."

down some principle for the guidance of this office,—but finding the cases of some difficulty, they were