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This letter is addressed: G C Cox | Photographer | Broadway & 12th Street | New York City.

This postal card is addressed: William Carey | Century Office Union Square | New York City.

—When you come again, don't forget to bring my Stedman book American Poets —Love to Alma and Al and all

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

" 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

Boston friends were raising money to buy a summer cottage they hoped would improve Whitman's failing

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

Charles Sprague Sargent (1841–1927) was an American botanist.

Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851–1934) was an influential American architectural critic.

Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908) was an American professor of art and a literary critic.

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

" 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

I am ab't the same as when you were here—& am sitting by the window in the big chair. Mrs.

D's cookery—we wish you were here to have some—the very color goes beyond all description.

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

Whitman's name and city are printed on the envelope as follows: Walt Whitman, | Camden, | New Jersey.

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

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

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.

The four poems that comprised "November Boughs" in Lippincott's Magazine were reprinted in the "Sands

This letter is addressed: Wm Carey | Century Office | Union Square | New York City.

All at once it occurs to me: "Why—these were written years ago. He is older now.

Originally entitled "Enfans d'Adam" in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, this cluster of poems celebrating

The poems, openly "singing the phallus" and the "mystic deliria," were too bold for their time and often

relationship with esteemed writer Ralph Waldo Emerson cooled after he refused Emerson's advice in 1860

Miller, Jr., " 'Children of Adam' [1860]," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R.

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

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

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

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 morning at the a.m. o.c. and I am scribbling this instead of painting—oh, how often I think of American

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

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

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

This letter is addressed: R U Johnson | Century Office | Union Square | New York City.

Thomas Eakins (1844–1919) was an American painter.

Undoubtedly Dora Wheeler (1856–1940), who in the 1880s painted portraits of numerous American authors

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

Thomas Eakins (1844–1919) was an American painter.

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

Whitman, to a party of ladies who were very much charmed with it." "Ah! what one was that?"

City is a Woman who detained me There for the Love of Me.

"Yes," said I, "they were highly pleased with it."

at the idea of having so many disciples in the City of Isms.

And is there anything in the American language that comes close to this?

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

Thomas Eakins (1844–1919) was an American painter.

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

Just now it is all emptied into the river that flows through the city and the deposit has become so great

authority may have been weakened by the resolution adopted on February 18, 1887, by the lower house of the city

requested to serve his purpose by means other than those calculated to inconvenience the taxpayers of the city

" (Journal of the City Council, February 23, 1887).

Julius Chambers (1850–1920) was an American author, investigative journalist, and travel writer; after

For more on the Herald and the many poems by Whitman that were published in it, see Susan Belasco, "The

Julius Chambers (1850–1920) was an American author, investigative journalist, and travel writer.

The boxes were shipped Monday, & I suppose you may have heard from Dr Bucke. Tell Mrs.

Bohan, Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850–1920 (University Park: Pennsylvania State University

This letter is addressed: Edward T Potter | 26 S 38th Street | New York City.

I loved to work what good I could for the Sunday School of Old St Ann's for its missions and our City's

poor—you were always ready to aid in such good work— I was young then, and light hearted—I am a Widow

According to the Brooklyn City Directory (1863), Gabriel Harrison was a photographer at 73 Fulton Avenue

Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden—though it does appear frequently in the last three volumes, which were

And, to say the truth, we were rather tiredof itbefore itwas over, and were glad enough to change from

Itwas only the other day that we were saying, when he and I were met with other friends, that italmost

The couple were people I knew well, who did second famously, but were conditionally pre-engaged when

'Depend upon itthe Greek sculptors were right. * Since you were last here, Herbert, I have read Bulwer's

You were not made for failure, you were made for victory forward with joyful : go a confidence in that

—Our two were on the way to Philadelphia?

After changing my boarding house, Jef. and I were, take it altogether, pretty comfortable.

The arrangements of the office were in this wise: I generally went about my work about 9 o'clock, overhauling

Reeder, (an amiable-hearted young man, but excessively intemperate) was the "city news" man; (poor Reeder

to speculate on the circumstances or date of its composition, but it seems likely that parts of it were

Emory Holloway (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:77–78. 1848 New Orleans

to speculate on the circumstances or date of its composition, but it seems likely that parts of it were

Emory Holloway (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:77–78.

Portions of this manuscript were also used in Autobiographic Note.

preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were

preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were

preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were

preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were

preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were

preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were

preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were

1865 and later included in Sequel to Drum-Taps (1865-66), the corrections on this particular copy were

sal.00003xxx.005602010.9.262[In the main I]about 1891prose1 leafhandwritten; Draft fragment of American

The eight poems from this sequence were then reprinted in a section of November Boughs entitled Sands

Lines from this manuscript were published posthumously as [Glad the Jaunts for the Known].

According to the 1890 Philadelphia city directory, William, Jr. lived at 864 41st Street, and Louis lived

I was beginning to fear lest you were not so well again.

If good wishes of friends were of any direct use, physically, I mean, as well as in other ways, it would

It was held at the foot of Cleopatra's Needle, round the base of which the various speakers were grouped

Through the day it had been wet & foggy in turn, but now the sky was of an American clearness, the half-moon

If Jesus were in London to-day, would he be in those churches?"—and the crowd shouted back, "No!

Joseph Pennell (1857–1926) was an American lithographer, illustrator, and etcher whose work often depicted

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