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Such approaches to American literature were necessary to offset the earlier perception ofthe nation's

I wish it were not so.

And these names were not said; they were sung in a surge of enthusiasm and adoration.

Americanism.

Many important American poets were completely unknown in Slovenia, but this was not the case with Whitman

this morning, the Attorney General has thought that it would answer the purposes for which the papers were

In reply I have the honor to state that these papers were withdrawn by a gentleman who represented himself

by the Secretary of War, attention is called to the fact that on the 21st day of April, 1871, there were

It appears from the records that these papers were referred to Mr.

the letter of the Attorney General to the Postmaster General of the 24th of August last, which you were

Gents: In a letter from this office dated October 10, 1870, you were furnished with lists of Books, (

Some of the books mentioned in the lists were subsequently received from you, but there still remains

received, through the reference of Judge Cartter, your proposition to ventilate the Court Rooms in the City

Hall Building of this city, for the sum of Two thousand dollars—and to say that there is no fund under

Brady, Esq. 10 Minetta Lane, New York City.

Washington City.

Marshal, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Marshal, New York City. Sir: Messrs.

this account should be taxed in court, in the same manner as the accounts for other election expenses were

Marshal, New York City.

Attorney, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Marshal, New York City.

Randolph, which were transmitted to this Department with your letter of May last.

connected with it, with the following information: The place of your nativity, and the State whence you were

The Attorney General is now absent from the city—but immediately on his return the letter will be laid

Commissioner, Alba City, U. T.

In addition to this you were also allowed for mileage at the rate of ten cents per mile, for which you

It is desirable that these commissions should be signed by the President before he leaves the city, this

Sir: As Disbursing Agent for the United States Jail in this City, I have been requested by the officers

pay, to be transmitted to you in aid of the sufferers by the late disastrous conflagration in your city

New York City.

I regret the delay in returning this paper, but it was occasioned by the absence from the city of the

Salt Lake City, Utah.

Brightley's Digest can be purchased in this city of W. H. & O. H. Marrison, at a cost of $16.

desirable Bill for $500 that you will obtain thereto the certificate of the Judges that the services were

New York City.

Lincoln asked who you were, or something like that.

Lincoln didn't say anything but took a good long look till you were quite gone by.

Harlan apparently took offense at the copy of the 1860 Leaves of Grass which Whitman was revising and

Made Captain Aug. 1864—got a family in Buffalo" (Manuscripts of Walt Whitman in the Collection of American

Our printing office will be here, but we wish a publication office near the City Hall, and an editor

Doggett's New York City Directory, for 1850–1851 lists William H.

The attention of American authors is respectfully invited to the facilities which Messrs. A.

SIMPSON & Co. respectfully announce for early publication, the following works by Foreign and American

The Club produced periodicals, as well as reprints of rare, curious, and old American, English, French

, and Latin books (American Literary Gazette and Publishers Circular [Philadelphia: George W.

For more information on the Club, see Adolf Growell, "The Agathynian Club (1866–1868)," American Book

of some Hints to the Drummer and Private Soldier (1783), which satirized British conduct in the American

written under the pseudonym Richard Haywarde) and The Sparrowgrass Papers, a humorous account of a city

The Club produced periodicals, as well as reprints of rare, curious, and old American, English, French

, and Latin books (American Literary Gazette and Publishers Circular [Philadelphia: George W.

For more information on the Club, see Adolf Growell, "The Agathynian Club (1866–1868)," American Book

In view of this fact, though we are favorably impressed, as we were when we first wrote you, with the

written under the pseudonym Richard Haywarde) and The Sparrowgrass Papers, a humorous account of a city

The Club produced periodicals, as well as reprints of rare, curious, and old American, English, French

, and Latin books (American Literary Gazette and Publishers Circular [Philadelphia: George W.

For more information on the Club, see Adolf Growell, "The Agathynian Club (1866–1868)," American Book

The Club produced periodicals, as well as reprints of rare, curious, and old American, English, French

, and Latin books (American Literary Gazette and Publishers Circular [Philadelphia: George W.

For more information on the Club, see Adolf Growell, "The Agathynian Club (1866–1868)," American Book

Copies of the volume were withdrawn so that the sequel could be added.

several poems, adding eighteen new poems to those that appeared in Drum-Taps, and all of these poems were

Later, these poems were folded into Leaves of Grass, and by the time the final arrangement of Leaves

They were most kindly made over to the present collection by the compiler, and by the publishers Messrs

Pickard; Garrison, Lucy McKim, (1867) was the earliest and most significant collection of African American

William Francis Allen (1830–1889) was an American classical scholar and one of the editors of the first

book of American slave songs, Slave Songs of the United States.

Charles Pickard Ware (1849–1921) was an American educator and music transcriber.

Lucy McKim Garrison (1842–1877) was an American song collector and co-editor of Slave Songs of the United

Simpson & Company of New York, Slave Songs of the United States was the earliest collection of African American

Northern abolitionists who collected the songs—many of which were spirituals—while they worked in the

The Club produced periodicals, as well as reprints of rare, curious, and old American, English, French

, and Latin books (American Literary Gazette and Publishers Circular [Philadelphia: George W.

For more information on the Club, see Adolf Growell, "The Agathynian Club (1866–1868)," American Book

intended to copy out and send to you —it has lain in my desk since then—when I had heard that you were

But I am glad to say that I have been the means of making your work known to many who were scoffers at

Many of us were hoping to see you in Ireland.

If I were before your face I would like to shake hands with you for I feel that I would like you—I would

I am writing to you because you are different from other men. if you were the same as the mass I would

The Confessions of the Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) were published posthumously

Temple Bar—A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers (1860–1906?)

About half of the poems from the 1867 American edition of Leaves of Grass were removed for the British

Then—when it came—it was so different from my fancies—but you dear friend, were not disappointing.

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.

Dear Friend You were so good as to call yourself so, in my book,—that I value more than you guess,—and

If I were arranging flowers for your room, I should have masses of one kind, if I could.

delicate miracles, quite a variety of them, might enable you to fancy you had left your room, and were

Walt Whitman, the American Poet.

their souls as an instinct, their general tone of thought and feeling, and modes of expressing them, were

One of his own countrymen (a press correspondent) thus writes of him— The only American prophet to my

The "seven cities" refer to Chios, Athens, Rhodes, Colophon, Argos, Smyrna, and Salamis.

Walt Whitman, the American Poet

Clear Grits were reformers in the province of Upper Canada, a British colony that is now Ontario, Canada

Their support was concentrated among southwestern Ontario farmers, who were frustrated and disillusioned

The Clear Grits advocated universal male suffrage, representation by population, democratic institutions

They can easily be remembered through the mnemonic "carcass" (the first letter of each city spells the

have been attributed to several writers, including Thomas Heywood (died 1649), who wrote: "Seven cities

Boston 1860–61. 3d. Ed. ? New York 1867, 4th. Ed. ? Washington 1871, 5th. Ed. ? Camden 1876 6th.

Wishing to know from an authentic source what other american Editions have been printed if any, will

On February 10, 1860, Whitman received a letter from the Boston publishing firm of Thayer and Eldridge

In March 1860, Whitman traveled to Boston to meet with the publishers and to oversee the printing of

the volume consisted of four separately paginated books stitched together (an edited version of the 1860

Seward, Esq. p. o. box 217, New York City.

If such authority were given, I presume the Department which authorized the employment will feel bound

Jersey City, N. J.

intent, a stalwart man of genial appearance & seemingly past the middle age since his hair & face beard were

, live here, (my mother living with us) & have charge of one of the public schools (No. 13) of the city

Whitman served as the basis for Stephen Alonzo Schoff's engraving of the poet for Leaves of Grass (1860

Frank Leslie's Weekly, published from 1852 to 1922, was an American literary and news magazine published

Had, already, edited stray poems, which were received with much pleasure by the public—But they were

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) was an American poet and essayist who began the Transcendentalist movement