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all to the front, Invisibly with thee walking with kings with even pace the round world's promenade, Were

all to the front, Invisibly with thee walking with kings with even pace the round world's promenade, Were

The first several lines of Pictures (not including this line) were revised and published as My Picture-Gallery

in The American in October 1880.

This manuscript may relate to the poem titled A Song of Joys, which first appeared in the 1860 Leaves

(1860, p. 259).

Whitman's poetry with friends Henry James and George Cabot "Bay" Lodge, who thought him the best American

probably related to lines on the same topic in A Song of Joys, first published as Poem of Joys in the 1860

approximately four lines, written and revised in ink, that may be related to the poem Year of Meteors. (1859–1860

Review, TheWestminster Review, TheAmong the powerful arbiters of taste in nineteenth-century England were

These popular British magazines were often pirated in American editions.

periodicals in his editorial pages reveals that ideas which some have thought he picked up from American

Whitman's enthusiasm for the Westminster Review during the 1850s, the attack on his poems in the October 1860

A defense of Leaves of Grass in the Brooklyn City News on 10 October was almost certainly written by

No woman can be expected to part with a constituent of her nature, though all masculine-dom were to set

in his essay Slang in America, which was first published in the November 1885 issue of The North American

of an article written in response to an unidentified author who had apparently found fault with American

C.D.AlbinWest, The AmericanWest, The AmericanFor Walt Whitman, the American West represented a point

who would become the collective progenitors of his golden American future.

Frontier: American Literature and the American West. By Fussell.

Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth. By Smith.

West, The American

On 26 January 1876 the Press published the anonymous article "Walt Whitman's Actual American Position

, Whitman complained with hyperbolic self-pity that he had been almost completely ignored by the American

They have been met . . . with the determined denial, disgust and scorn of orthodox American authors .

NEW JERSEY OFFICE: 137 Ocean Ave., Jersey City. New York, Oct 1. 189 1 Hon. Walt.

.; yal.00452 were paid for with steamships

81. were paid for with a steamship s or , or would come cheap.— I am not stuck up for these reasons;

Additional poetic lines are drafted on the back of this manuscript leaf. were paid for with steamships

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

The couple were the parents of at least four children: Myra Dixon, Nora Dixon, Wentworth Dixon, and Ellen

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

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

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

His lays were heard in the pauses of the fight.

to blow through the long corridor of the canal, which is here cut straight through the woods, and were

When we reached the Concord, we were forced to row once more in good earnest, with neither wind nor current

from it, the revealed system of medicine, the Puranas, or sacred histories, and the code of Menu, were

—"A number of glosses or comments on Menu were composed by the Munis, or old philosophers, whose treatises

We seem to be dabbling in the very elements of our present conventional and actual life; as if it were

where how to eat and to drink and to sleep, and maintain life with adequate dignity and sincerity, were

In another era the "lily-of-the valley, cowslip, dandelion," were to work their way down into the plain

Especially the pictures of concrete average life were attractive to him.

Carlyle and Emerson had been and were much to him—but W. overarched all—took immediately and positively

September weather, wondering how it is with you, dreaming of that September eight years ago when you were

He has come over, I think, to stay a year or so—will settle—get a room or two rooms in the city and put

Any edition American or English which for any reason whatever is abridged is abhorrent and inexcusable

My dear Sir, Some years ago when I had occasion to address you, you were so good as to say you should

The American agent to whom my last application for this was forwarded says: "I don't think there is an

His ways were beautiful and simple—how well I knew them, watched them!

Matthew Arnold was not in the abstract sense a damned fool, but with respect to the modern—to American—he

The last 15 years have found Lincoln up—quite the thing—but in those early days, how few there were to

I interpolated a story of the difference in millhands—the native American always speaking to the Boss

Were these letters signed? "Yes—most of 'em.

clearly known from the very start that if one would be—or had to be—a public man—defamations, lying, were

You know these stories are rife, or were, even then in those old days; it seemed the necessity with some

O'Connor would say there were such accusations. And perhaps the thought fits here in this new case.

Gilchrist was left with four young children, alone: her perplexities were great.

as a sort of postscript: 'How curiously the traveling Englishman is like the best of our educated Americans

what I'm able to catch on the fly I find he is better pleased with Chicago than with the Eastern cities—finds

The great vast bulk of a city weighs on the senses like a nightmare, but if one don't care a button for

"What is your city with its temples and walls?

Insisted on Ed's putting the sash down, though shutters were closed.

If not, we can have the lecture in this city, and Whitman can come over here.

Davis' absence came in to say that a couple of children were below with flowers and asked to see him.

Then there were other reasons.

If W. were in sound health or even somewhat stronger than he is, I would say, New York was the place.

Not English—more Yankee—most of our American South in character.

They undoubtedly knew what they were talking about—both." Had Mrs. O'Connor been here yet?

Tom spoke of its value: "It must have been worth four dollars, American money, at least."

(Afterwards when Burroughs and Gilchrist and Harned were with us he suddenly picked his notebook up from

No discussion because all were free traders, except, perhaps, Harned, whose faith in the tariff is not

you"—reaching to table and taking from it a bulky big envelope marked "'Leaves of Grass Imprints' 1860

And he further said, "No, Stedman is wrong about America, though there are Americans whose affection

He admitted that if it was "indispensible" for him to be present, the chances were better with the address

and had to use the new, getting gradually quite accommodated to them, though never convinced they were

gratified: for, you know, I am for Cleveland: he goes in my direction," Harned queried: "I thought you were

I think some of our American voters are an unlikely lot.

all be read in due time, with sincere gratitude to the donor.Both your letters also reached me, and were

Davis and Musgrove were sitting in the kitchen talking together.

He is thoroughly American—quick, pushy, wide-awake—very cheery. I like him quite a good deal."

Fowler—the old professor—you know there were several of them.

Again, "It would appear from Baker's letter as though you were all preparing for a big event.

In this case the wives were on my side. Alma, the present Mrs.

above officers have been promoted from the ranks for brave conduct on the field, and both are now, or were

His comments on the title page were equally earnest.

There were things revealed to me which I never realized in George Eliot before—for one thing a subtlety

they were fair as they looked—in that respect unlike some people we know.

He showed, for instance, that, say out of every thousand hands, a third, 333 of them, were practically

and opened the bag—finding therein a postal from W., written to us in common, and a copy of the American

We were driven in town. Further talk at station.

Doctor handed me the letter while you were here: I opened it just after you had gone—hurried as best

I remember he used to say, vehemently, to Americans—(you know he was here in the Centennial Year)—he

I don't know if I have mentioned Jesse in Specimen Days or not—there were 2 brothers of them—Frank and

Ledger rather slightingly spoke of the lecture as successful so far as numbers were concerned.

There were white beards, but none were so white as that of the author of "Leaves of Grass."

writings are in certain points open to criticism, they yet show extraordinary power, & are more deeply American

I have fixed these pictures up, thinking they were better to go over.

W. now remarks, "I knew Young—knew him pretty well—though we were never intimate. True blue, John!

They were good to look at? "Yes, and not less good to eat. I have one left."

G. said James considered London the greatest city in the world and W. exclaimed—"Well—I guess there's

He was at one time on the North American Review—left there, I don't know whether voluntarily or by Rice's

Kurtz Walt Whitman (1860) cannot find the alleged letter to Marston in any of the Boston papers.

Remarked how the Pan-American Congress had dropped out of sight.

"I read the accounts as long as they were to be had.

They were some of the things I was sure to read at once and enjoy."

"We were just telling each other about you." I asked, "Telling what?"

And Rossetti knew him; they were under more or less easy terms—friendly.

As to American art, "It wants nothing—asks to be let alone."

These particular women were of the large sort—came because they were sympathetically, emotionally, moved

I had to look out for something: there were reasons why boarding was not to be desired: I saw this house

Great wounds as it were over the face of it—ruins at every corner—streets blackened with petroleum.

So many thousands are in deep mourning that this gives as it were a funeral touch to it all.

April—then to return here again where my address will be— Your two letters duly reached me at the time and were

Baker thinks Ingersoll's long absence from the city and greater fame will if anything tend to increase