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Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 23 October 1885

  • Date: October 23, 1885
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Text:

Sorry to hear you were troubled with sunstroke. I hope you are going on pretty well again now.

We were very pleased that the money came in handy—I haven't been in London lately or seen Mrs.

Annotations Text:

Both were introduced to Whitman's writings by Edward Carpenter and they quickly became admirers of Whitman

Allen Thorndike Rice to Walt Whitman, 16 November 1885

  • Date: November 16, 1885
  • Creator(s): Allen Thorndike Rice
Text:

THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETER. Editorial Department.

Annotations Text:

There is a drawn-in line beginning at the top of the page above the words "THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW"

Walt Whitman to Louisa Orr Haslam Whitman, 16 November [1885]

  • Date: November 16, 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

These stockings were for Whitman's mentally and physically incapacitated brother Edward, who had lived

Walt Whitman to Lorenz Reich, 17 November 1885

  • Date: November 17, 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

This letter is addressed: Lorenz Reich | 63 East 11th street | New York City.

Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 30 November 1885

  • Date: November 30, 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

little memoranda addressed to us she noted your name down as the one friend in America to whom we were

Whitman was in Atlantic City on November 28 and at Glendale on the following day (Whitman's Commonplace

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 2 December 1885

  • Date: December 2, 1885
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

I set up every stick of it mesilf indade , & corrected my proofs ( wh. which I'll have you know) were

Annotations Text:

Later the decree was altered, and O'Reilly was sent to Australia, where he escaped on an American whaler

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 2 December 1885

  • Date: December 2, 1885
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Text:

little memoranda addressed to us she noted your name down as the one friend in America to whom we were

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 2 December 1885

  • Date: December 2, 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

W S K Your "the Poet as a Craftsman" seems the best statement possible of the modern scientific American

Ernest Rhys, 59 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, Eng Dr Karl Knortz, 540 East 155th St, New York City G.

Richard Watson Gilder, Century office, Union Square, New York City Wm D O'Connor, Life Saving Service

New York Edmund C Stedman, author, New York City Dr.

Marion Thrasher to Walt Whitman, 6 December 1885

  • Date: December 6, 1885
  • Creator(s): Marion Thrasher
Text:

Associations," and can arrange for you to give ten readings of your poems, in ten of our largest cities

Unidentified Correspondent to Walt Whitman, 8 December 1885

  • Date: December 8, 1885
  • Creator(s): Unidentified Correspondent
Text:

WEBB, President of the Free College of the City of New York, and from MR. ANDREW CARNEGIE, REV. WM.

Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 21 December 1885

  • Date: December 21, 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

for a week—As I close, my bird is singing like a house afire, & the sun is shining out—I wish you were

Annotations Text:

Sloane Kennedy had to say about Whitman in his pamphlet, but thought that the statements about style were

Hannah Whitman Heyde to Walt Whitman, [25 December 1885]

  • Date: [December 25, 1885]
  • Creator(s): Hannah Whitman Heyde
Annotations Text:

According to the Twenty-First Annual Report of the City of Burlington, Vermont (1885), "The heaviest

With the exception of two blocks the flagging is five feet wide" (Twenty-First Annual Report of the City

Proudly the flood comes in

  • Date: About 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

holds at the high, with bosom broad outswelling; All throbs, dilates—the farms, woods, the streets of cities

Walt Whitman to Calder Johnston, [1885?]

  • Date: 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Johnston, is undated; the second, to Harold Johnston, is dated March 26, suggesting that the cards were

John Burroughs to Walt Whitman, 31 December 1885

  • Date: December 31, 1885
  • Creator(s): John Burroughs
Text:

I was right glad to get your letter & to know your eyes were so much better.

How much I wish you were here to eat a New Years dinner with us.

Annotations Text:

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

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

When Whitman met Longfellow in June 1876, he was unimpressed: "His manners were stately, conventional—all

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

Robert P. Stewart to Walt Whitman, December 1885

  • Date: December 1885
  • Creator(s): Robert P. Stewart
Text:

read criticisms reviews of your works & as I half expected none of them had the least idea who you were

Walt Whitman to Camden Horse Railroad Company, [?] December 1885

  • Date: December [?], 1885
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Camden City Office Horse RR Walt Whitman to Camden Horse Railroad Company, [?] December 1885

Burns as Poet and Person.

  • Date: 1886
Text:

as Poet and Person.1886prose13 leaveshandwritten; Fair copy prepared for publication in the North American

The first page of this manuscript bears a note written by James Redpath, the editor of the North American

because the leaves have been mounted and bound in a volume that also includes a frontispiece from the 1860

Father Taylor (and Oratory)

  • Date: 1886-1887
Text:

Whitman went to hear Taylor speak on several occassions during his stay in Boston in 1860.

Good-Bye My Fancy

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

the printer Whitman used proof sheets, newspaper clippings, etc., between manuscript pages, which were

[Each claim, ideal, line]

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

the middle of the page appear three underlined words, "These pages past," but whether or not they were

My Task

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

All of the verses except For us two, reader dear were fused together and published as one poem entitled

Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett by Lorenzo F. Fisler of Fisler and Gaubert?, 1886

  • Date: 1886
  • Creator(s): Lorenzo F. Fisler
Text:

There later were troubles with Duckett, but Whitman recalled in 1889 that "he was often with me: we went

to Gloucester together: one trip was to New York: . . . then to Sea Isle City once: I stayed there at

the hotel two or three days—so on: we were quite thick then: thick: when I had money it was as freely

Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett by Lorenzo F. Fisler of Fisler and Gaubert?, ca. October 1886

  • Date: ca. October 1886
  • Creator(s): Lorenzo F. Fisler
Text:

There later were troubles with Duckett, but Whitman recalled in 1889 that "he was often with me: we went

to Gloucester together: one trip was to New York: . . . then to Sea Isle City once: I stayed there at

the hotel two or three days—so on: we were quite thick then: thick: when I had money it was as freely

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [2 January 1886]

  • Date: January 2, 1886
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy | Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

" 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

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.

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, [4 January 1886]

  • Date: January 4, 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

my old nag & rig in the afternoon —So you see I have not utterly stopt stopped moving —but I feel exceeding

Annotations Text:

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

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

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

William Michael Rossetti to Walt Whitman, 5 January 1886

  • Date: January 5, 1886
  • Creator(s): William Michael Rossetti
Text:

Chas Charles Aldrich, of Webster City, Iowa: he told us of his interview with you shortly before he crossed

Annotations Text:

subscription list is being formed in England with a view to presenting a free-will offering to the American

A Visit to Walt Whitman

  • Date: 13 January 1886
  • Creator(s): H. R. Haweis | H. R. Haweis, M. A.
Text:

with their lists of carpenters' tools and "barbaric yawps," their delight in the smoke and roar of cities

silence of mountains, and seas of prairies,—seemed to me to breathe something distinctive, national, American—with

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 21 January 1886

  • Date: January 21, 1886
  • Creator(s): William Douglass O'Connor | William D. O'Connor
Text:

recently in which she says: "By the way, there is in the latest edition of Leaves of Grass a poem—'The City

Walt Whitman at Home

  • Date: 23 January 1886
  • Creator(s): George Johnston | Quilp [George Johnston?]
Text:

In the recesses on either side of the chimney were portraits of the poet's father and mother.

some of them were on the floor.

Of books there were many, and, like the pictures, they were scattered everywhere around the room; on

They were young ladies just ready to bloom into early womanhood—pupils from Bryn Mawr College.

Pretty soon the writer made an incidental remark about the growth of the new Philadelphia City Hall,

Herbert Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 25 January 1886

  • Date: January 25, 1886
  • Creator(s): Herbert Gilchrist
Annotations Text:

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

Her works include The Mill on the Floss (1860), Middlemarch (1871–1872), and Daniel Deronda (1876).

subscription list is being formed in England with a view to presenting a free-will offering to the American

He springs out of that vast American continent full-charged with all that is special and national in

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 2 February 1886

  • Date: February 2, 1886
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Text:

Johnson to have several men tell me when I last went to town that they were more or less sure they had

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 5 February 1886

  • Date: February 5, 1886
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Text:

I am going to address the American People (not the damned & twice damned literary & clerical rascals)

Annotations Text:

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.

Fanny Raymond Ritter (c.1835–1891) was an American musician, writer, historian, and the wife of the German-American

The Ritters were friends of William Sloane Kennedy and William D.

During the late 1850s and throughout the 1860s, Abby and Helen were friends with Whitman and his mother

Walt Whitman to Ernest Rhys, 20 March 1886

  • Date: March 20, 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

On May 22 Rhys informed the poet that about 8,000 copies of the edition were sold, and that the publisher

Burt Zimmerman to Walt Whitman, 21 March 1886

  • Date: March 21, 1886
  • Creator(s): Burt Zimmerman
Text:

If my accumulation of shoes—my cast-off shoes—like wine and Old Daubs were increased in value by cobwebs

William D. O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 23 March 1886

  • Date: March 23, 1886
  • Creator(s): William D. O'Connor
Text:

C.W.E. and I were intensely amused at your "amiable clerk with a pen behind his ear," as applied to Stedman's

This gives points to Herod, and is worse than the slaughter of the innocents, because they were Jew babies

Annotations Text:

Eldridge (1837–1903) was, with William Wilde Thayer, the Boston publisher of Whitman's 1860 edition of

Gay Wilson Allen, Ed Folsom (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1990), 268–281.

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

Perhaps a reference to Henry Jacob Bigelow (1818–1890), an American surgeon, professor at Harvard and

Walt Whitman to William D. O'Connor, 26 March [1886]

  • Date: March 26, 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Bessie (d. 1919) and Isabella (1855–1924) Ford were sisters who lived together in Leeds.

They were friends and disciples (as well as cousins) of Carpenter, and active social reformers, working

Whitman for the Drawing Room

  • Date: April 1886
  • Creator(s): Anonymous
Text:

He has not omitted, as some editors might have done, In a City Dead House and The Flight of the Eagles

Smith & Starr to Walt Whitman, 12 April 1886

  • Date: April 12, 1886
  • Creator(s): Smith & Starr
Annotations Text:

SALEM, a manufacturing city of 6000 population, is an Excellent Show Town, surrounded by a good country

Talcott Williams to Walt Whitman, 15 April 1886

  • Date: April 15, 1886
  • Creator(s): Talcott Williams
Annotations Text:

David McKay (1860–1918) took over Philadelphia-based publisher Rees Welsh's bookselling and publishing

For more information about McKay, see Joel Myerson, "McKay, David (1860–1918)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 19 April 1886

  • Date: April 19, 1886
  • Creator(s): William Sloane Kennedy
Annotations Text:

" 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

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

Perhaps Lilian Whiting (1859–1942), an American writer and journalist.

Hiram Corson to Walt Whitman, 26 April 1886

  • Date: April 26, 1886
  • Creator(s): Hiram Corson
Text:

Americans are apt to forget their great men, unless their work in this world, is kept before their minds

When I next visit the city, I shall certainly arrange to have a talk with you, on certain points upon

Walt Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy, 27 April 1886

  • Date: April 27, 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

His shad and champagne dinners for Whitman were something of a tradition.

Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 17 May 1886

  • Date: May 17, 1886
  • Creator(s): Edward Carpenter
Annotations Text:

Bessie (d. 1919) and Isabella (1855–1924) Ford were sisters who lived together in Leeds, were friends

Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti, 30 May 1886

  • Date: May 30, 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Annotations Text:

Among the donors were Henry James, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Addington Symonds, George Saintsbury,

Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 9 June 1886

  • Date: June 9, 1886
  • Creator(s): Richard Maurice Bucke
Annotations Text:

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

Talcott Williams to Walt Whitman, 11 June 1886

  • Date: June 11, 1886
  • Creator(s): Talcott Williams
Text:

Your postal cards were better than all the letters in the world.

Talks with Noted Men

  • Date: 12 June 1886
  • Creator(s): W. H. B.
Text:

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.

W. I. Whiting to Walt Whitman, 14 June 1886

  • Date: June 14, 1886
  • Creator(s): W. I. Whiting
Text:

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

Walt Whitman to Karl Knortz, 14 June 1886

  • Date: June 14, 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

England J Addington Symonds, Davos Platz, Graubünden Switzerland E C Stedman 45 E 30th St New York City

Annotations Text:

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

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