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Ursula and John were married on September 12, 1857.

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

Traubel left behind enough manuscripts for six more volumes of the series, the final two of which were

was one half of the Boston-based abolitionist publishing firm Thayer and Eldridge, who issued the 1860

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

O'Connor, who, with Charles Eldridge and later John Burroughs, were to be his close associates during

was one half of the Boston-based abolitionist publishing firm Thayer and Eldridge, who issued the 1860

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

Bellows | 356 Fifth Street | bet Monmouth & Brunswick sts | Jersey City | N J.

This letter bears the address: J H Johnston | Jeweler | 150 Bowery cor Broome St | New York City.

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

Piper and Co., booksellers in Boston, were willing to take 50 copies of the new edition of Leaves of

—Your letter of 8th July has reached me—I hope to write you more fully & answer it from Washington city—My

Rossetti informed Walt Whitman on October 8, 1871 that he was preparing "a vol. of Selections from American

Poets," which appeared in 1872 as American Poems with a dedication to Walt Whitman, "the greatest of

American poets."

fool'd 114 Native Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Once I Pass'd through a Populous City

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, architec-

I loved well those cities; I loved well the stately and rapid river; The men and women I saw were all

to American persons, pro- gresses progresses , cities? Chicago, Kanada, Arkansas?

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. 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, architec-

CITY OF ORGIES. CITY of orgies, walks and joys!

Only I will establish in the Mannahatta, and in every city of These States, inland and seaboard, And

Or the vaunted glory and growth of the great city spread around me?

I DREAM'D in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; I

, if I could be with you, and become your loving comrade; Be it as if I were with you.

tidy and fresh-cheek'd girls—and the bare- foot barefoot negro boy and girl, And all the changes of city

This letter is a draft and apparently a letter of transmittal for Whitman's "Fifty-First New York City

I's design I myself think the best place would be New York City, tho' I believe Horace & some other friends

This letter is addressed: J H Johnston | Diamond Merchant | 150 Bowery cor: Broome St: | New York City

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

Traubel left behind enough manuscripts for six more volumes of the series, the final two of which were

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

There were 1600 to 2000 people, (choice persons,) one third women (Proceeds to me $869.45)—I went over

excuse the liberty I take in introducing the young man who will hand you this—a conductor on the W P City

The coming year should give new life to every American who has breathed a breath of that soul which inspired

the great founders of the American Constitution, whose work you are to celebrate.

—This would afford a splendid living American that would go like the devil through the West, and among

and Whitman's visit to the West that fell in the summer and fall of 1879 (The Correspondence [Iowa City

anonymous self-review, "All About a Mocking-Bird," Whitman discussed the forthcoming third edition of 1860

supplied—the great West especially—with copious thousands of copies" (New York Saturday Press [7 January 1860

On May 16, 1881, Beers wrote to thank Whitman for quoting his verses in The American on May 14: "To a

Similar reservations appear in his Four Americans (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919), 85–90.

prevented from growing tedious—was the marked absence from the spot of every popular poet and author, American

Hearing of the arrival of "the good Gray Poet" in the city, on a short week's visit, a T RIBUNE man was

At the American House, where Mr.

"I have lived in or visited all the great cities on the Atlantic third of the Republic—Boston, Brooklyn

this very Denver, if it might be so, I should like to cast my lot, above all other spots, all other cities

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University; gaps were filled by reference to a digital

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University; gaps were filled by reference to a digital

the Water Fund a sum sufficient to pay for a grand Celebration of the introduction of water into the city—a

Let us have a celebration worthy of the occasion and of the city.

Whitman says, in a manner which, if irony were not a mode rather foreign to him, we should consider ironical

We should be very much surprised if they were not. William O'Connor and Dr.

Glance o'er Travel'd Roads" amounts to an acknowledgment by Walt Whitman himself, not that his critics were

the rising and sinking waves—over the myriad fields and the prairies wide: Over the dense-packed cities

so—was indeed not in the original "Leaves of Grass," as it appeared more than thirty years ago, nor were

or, What are the cardinal points to be insisted upon for the all around development of the coming American

What points are to be urged for the awakening of the higher intelligence of the Young American?

Sanborn first encountered Walt Whitman on 4 April 1860 in a courtroom in Boston, where Sanborn had been

Whitman would later say that he came to make sure that, if Sanborn were convicted, he—Whitman—might take

Massachusetts abolitionists were enraged, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson even tried to break Burns out

The Slave Catchers: Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1850–1860.

Whitman family letters make clear that during much of his life he was capable of being out in the city

that he had been trusted to take her and her sister out for pushcart excursions in Brooklyn when they were

little girls in the 1860s.

She and his mother, he wrote, were "the two best and sweetest women I have ever seen or known" (Correspondence

Her death certificate indicates she was born in New York (no city or town is given), and her daughter

, no doubt rightly, that Walt was drawn to Mattie because she was so good to his mother, but there were

The early months of 1873 were devastating ones for Walt Whitman.

It would be a mistake, however, to suggest that the two brothers were drawn together only by the pull

Though perhaps driven somewhat apart in this way, they were drawn together powerfully in feeling when

On the attempted Suppression of "an American, one of the Roughs, a Kosmos," and "Yawped over the roofs

An attempt to suppress an attorney were better, Who thinks the free flight of the soul to fetter.

Upon thy brow the light of genius shone: New paths in Poesy's mysterious meads Were trod by thee with

Thy fervid thoughts were born to sweetly bloom, And bring a solace to the human heart.

also later served as president of the New York Chamber of Commerce and as a Commissioner of New York City's

At a sale of Autographs, & Books a few days ago the following prices were obtained, "Autograph letter

, Whitman, Walt, Poet," $80.00 Leaves of Grass 1 st Edition 18.00 Which prices were the highest paid

Frederick Gutekunst (1831–1917) was a well-known ninteenth-century American photographer in Philadelphia

of countless squads of vagabond children, the hideousness and squalor of certain quarters of the cities

Revenue department at Washington, who is led by the course of his employment to regularly visit the cities

The great cities reek with respectable as much as non-respectable robbery and scoundrelism.

He found the average American in the United States' armies, under pressure of want, disease, danger,

If a motto were to be chosen for "The Two Rivulets," and for Walt Whitman generally, it should be that

The profits on 'Leaves of Grass' were only $20 for the same time.

When I read my poem on Lincoln in Philadelphia the other day, the profits were $700.

Poetry is a font of type, to be set up again consistently with American democratic institutions."

"How were these changes made?" "Structures grew and were made by use and lost by disuse.

Such study shows clearly how structures developed or were lost.

"Yes—that was an actual moth," he told Traubel, "the picture is substantially literal: we were good friends

What is not often noted is that the photo simply enacts one of the recurrent visual emblems in the 1860

—While reading this paragraph, an army (and no small army) of reminiscences were called to my mind, prominent

Laura Catherine Redden Searing (1839–1923) was an American journalist and poet.

menengitis, Searing enrolled in the Missouri School for the Deaf and mastered sign language and the American

She then began contributing to various periodicals, including Harper's Magazine, Galaxy, and the American

have quite understood the whole of your message yet, & sometimes it has seemed to me as though you were

I note that on June 12 you were "much the same" & that on June 16 you were standing the oppressively

The glorious, sunshiney days of the beginning of the week were followed by severe storms of thunder &

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

Traubel left behind enough manuscripts for six more volumes of the series, the final two of which were

My Dear Friend, The American mail arrived here an hour ago & brought me your dear, good letter of Aug

W alt hitman , the American poet, celebrated his seventy-second birthday on May 31 in a quiet but happy

Letters of congratulation were received from Lord Tennyson and many others.

William Sloane Kennedy (1850–1929) was on the staff of the Philadelphia American and the Boston Transcript

; he also published biographies of Longfellow, Holmes, and Whittier (Dictionary of American Biography

Traubel (1858–1919) was an American essayist, poet, and magazine publisher.

Traubel left behind enough manuscripts for six more volumes of the series, the final two of which were

His opening words were characteristic: "I feel to say a word of grateful memory for the big fellows just

Letters were read from Lord Tennyson, Richard Waterson Gilder, Edmund Stedman, and others. Mr.

He says that many of his pieces were submitted to publishers and magazine editors, and "were peremptorily

Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892

his time, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was both a highly popular and highly respected American

" 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

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) was an American critic, poet and editor of The Atlantic.

bilingual newspaper published in Bringier, Louisiana, just upriver from New Orleans, between 1846 and 1860

Chicago Albumen Works, Inc., with the assistance of a grant from the Gilder-Lehrmann Institute for American

Walt Whitman by Unknown, ca. early 1860s Henry S.

Black photo in 1860 (zzz.00134) and two photos of Whitman with his friend Bill Duckett, taken in 1886

During the last week I have been a little uneasy about you, wondering at times how you were, & I accepted

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

Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about 1828–1881), a former