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"There were not many to make—hardly any. Only a word to add in several places."

your communications regarding the proof of "Liberty in Literature" being sent to Whitman—or Traubel—were

Do not be down-hearted about your work, I am as sure of the exceeding great importance of it as I am

editorial—read:A POET ON POETSWalt Whitman gives a review of his contemporaries in a brief paper in the North American

Just in to see if things were all right.

are typical—these are all out of what you would call our lower orders, vagabonds, the rift of our population

average life, grow conventional; but here they are now, for what you can make of them, typical of our population

They were boys for whom water, air, sun had for several years done their best.

I can, but he can hardly at the best expect much help from me in that," adding that bibliographies were

anyhow not according to my ambitions," that he could not "enter into them," and that though others were

Asked me about city life—curious for incidents.

"I want to predict about the Illustrated American—it cannot last at 25 cents a week—25 cents is too much

What opportunities were tallied! What gates opened! I suppose you did so—do so—too.

I told him stories of my own experience and I evidenced his interest by his questions, which were many.Some

leaves his blood tingling even up to morn's waking hour.I was there but a few minutes.W. spoke of American

a newspaper item, that a British tourist, who was refreshing himself at the lunch counter of an American

Thought Symonds' "Democratic Art" was "somewhat like the play 'Our American Cousin'—in which the only

American participating is an invented American, whose like you would wander America from shore to shore

I laughingly reminded him of some visitors to whom he had said, "The American people wash too much anyhow

Like seeing a great city, a crowded street; like a glimpse of Athens: who, what word, can convey any

Howells is striking a new note in fiction, and is giving to American literature its most marvellous presentation

the Judge, who, having heard one witness who was certain he had not seen a thing, and a dozen who were

All Sumner's bases were right, sound, secure, but there was elegance, artificiality about him in unmistakable

I should say, that things original—any real hospitality for inherencies—no, they were not for him, he

I wonder how his proof-sheets looked—what his methods were—it would curiously interest me!

I was out here yesterday—in the evening—for a long time—out by the city hall—and I watched the clouds

opponent of all such artificial soporifics, contenting in a recent work that healthy diet and exercise were

intercourse with him, happily fell into the habit of recording the precious monologues of the greatest of Americans

point: Why is it that Whitman's vociferous English public fails to see that the "representative American

Hawthorne, Whittier, Webster, Calhoun, John Brown, Jefferson Davis, even William Miller and Joseph Smith, were

He felt he "could not help" for Woodberry's reputation, anyway—these things were what they were, however

by other means, this perhaps getting mixed with the printed matter, I should think he and Symonds were

reminded him of his one-time remark, discussing Greek life, that "one of its features was that when they were

And this may account for my article; having these things in me, they were bound to come out."

"There were so many foolish and stupid objections made to the census, we determined to tell all that

contrary, I would want it known—want mortgage, mortgage, mortgage posted everywhere, to show how Americans

Though I don't know that the sin is American alone—it is human nature, probably, a parade of possession

The visitor was sure there were not more than a dozen who failed him out of the 400 and more houses he

yesterday's cyclone out in Pennsylvania and W. inquired carefully after that.After the two visitors were

group of men, friends, eight of them, living within a stone's throw of each other—whose united years were

He had been almost importuned to come here by officials, by Congress, was brought in an American man-of-war

I do not mean the idea: he must know about me—he knew O'Connor—they were intimate friends: but even with

We were always on the best of terms, and I will remember his kindly but earnest invitation to come to

When the war broke out, there were some of us in Washington—O'Connor, Burroughs (I think), others—all

All the Tories, aristocrats, snobs, cockneys, were against us then—the group of our friends was very

Now he said, "Warrie was down to Atlantic City on Sunday—came up yesterday morning.

I confess when he told me this many of my first impressions were sent flying or at least thrown into

"For a few minutes—en route to Atlantic City."

'Leaves of Grass' is a buffer to all that—draws off, as it were, a very strong arm and gives it a blow

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.

And as to Ingersoll's contention that Shakespeare's plays were impersonal—non-personal—more absolutely

If I were you I would do all I could to perpetuate it.

It may be called condiment: it has that for which too many Americans crave.

The Critic spoke of Lincoln as next to Washington in the hearts of Americans, &c.

dear Whitman"—from Gilder personally—reciting that previous poems sent by W. would "help" him and were

quota of Whitman readers—perhaps a few out of three-hundred-thousand—therefore from their standpoint were

Curious about some Carlyle anecdotes I told him were there.

Of Rudolf Schmidt and American humor: "He considers it the raciest in the world, and so, often little

had called upon him to make his selection of a burial place at Washington, Philadelphia, New York City

Bucke, whom I found animatedly talked to by the printer Curtz: Curtz descanting on the history of American

granite boulder.W. had told Bucke while on the road, that he designed a cottage somewhere out of the city

"I liked to drive down into the water—stand there: contemplate the sky, the city, the ensemble of things

and Robert Underwood Johnson, of the Century, might be invited to the dinner if several more names were

We were there with him for 15 minutes.Showed him the George Eliot [a bas-relief clay medallion]—which

he will be able to attend the quiet little dinner arranged to take place as a celebration in this city

I had a letter also from Arthur Stedman, stating his father's absence from the city &c.

abolitionersabolitionists of the time—of come-outers of all shades—I delighted to hear them, they were

that reminds me: I had among my friends in Washington, many curious fellows, whose habits and ways were

I know what it is—know it well: most of my years were passed in some sort of contest with it.

s provisions were furnished from the money sent me weeks ago by Mrs. Fairchild.)

Soon all were conversationally grouped.

He and Ingersoll were simple as two boys in their ways.

s interruptions were free—to one—"Do you say so, Colonel?"

We were there till 12.30, some smoking, others drinking, some doing both.

Russia"—"perhaps blacked out, as Kennan describes it"—which was "not surprising—would be surprising were

There were fifty or sixty in the room, mostly young, but some old or beginning to be.

The Whitmanites for the first time in their lives were fully satisfied; and that is saying a good deal

or fine smooth marble Cicero-head, or even Greek Plato; for he is modern and vital and veined and American

say that what he himself had in his mind when he wrote "Leaves of Grass" was not only to depict American

Had written Lezinsky at Butte City, Montana—sending him also a copy of the Post.Bertha Johnson and Ingram

Lincoln lecture—passages in which he thought I did injustice to actors, theatres—which he contended were

faithfully held to its object" through the "rare fidelity of the doctors"—who, as he knew them in the war, "were

Of the usual city doctor class I do not think much, but of these special men, sifted for the great purposes

And adding that he "supposed the signs were palpable," that W.

What cities the light or warmth penetrates I penetrate those cities myself, All islands to which birds

been one of my chosen delights, from earliest boyhood up, to follow the flights particularly of American

He asked, "Should something be added here to show they were written to people of foreign lands?"

I thought those on the table—fixed up—autographed—were all.

Were such comparisons dangerous? "I think so: but whether this is remains as I have said."

The old American poet's birthday offering was very striking, coming from a Democrat of Democrats, and

"They are, or were, both of them men of the old-school—Henry especially so, with something of modern

There is a large population in Brooklyn of the 15[,]00[0] to 20,000 dollars-a-year people—for whom Talmage

the atmosphere, the haze, that bathed the water, the city across there, the sky!"

week alluded to this paragraph out of Unity—done so with laughter, as a usual thing.The greatest American

He is known and honored in all lands as an illustrious American. Saturday, June 21, 1890

to congratulate you on the accuracy with which it is printed, a thing not ordinarily met with in American

certain inevitable errors of typography, but these may be expected, and found, in other as well as American

I did not go directly home—gave Aggie her doughnut in the city, at a meeting, when refreshment time came—she

question, it was still so indefinite I could not make it out—do not know to this day if my 8 dollars were

Europe had its real votaries—even in France or Germany—or (though I would not dare say it if Herbert were

"This book has been a companion of the first order: there were times when I could not be found without