The Walt Whitman Fellowship (today the Walt Whitman Association) was created in 1894 to promote Whitman’s works and to hold an annual celebration on his birthday, May 31. (Whitman died on March 26, 1892 in Camden, New Jersey.)

Papers on Whitman were read at meetings of the Fellowship from 1894 through 1898. They were bound into a volume — Walt Whitman Fellowship Papers — which is in the possession of the New York Public Library.

I have copied all the entries, which are transcripts of lectures delivered at Fellowship meetings. They are posted below as PDFs.*

The dates (as well as place) of the lectures were usually given, but sometimes they were not and I have given an approximate date for those lectures.

*The book at the New York Public Library is a compilation of individual addresses delivered to the Fellowship and minutes of meetings. It is tightly bound and some pages were difficult to copy.

— Roger W. Smith

November 2023

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Francis Howard Williams, ‘Walt Whitman As Deliverer’

Francis Howard Williams
Walt Whitman As Deliverer
Philadelphia, January 27, 1894

John Burroughs, ‘Whitman’s Self-Reliance’

John Burroughs
Whitman’s Self-Reliance
Philadelphia, March 23, 1894

Richard Maurice Bucke, ‘Memories of Walt Whitman’

Richard Maurice Bucke
Memories of Walt Whitman
Philadelphia, May 31 1894

Daniel G. Brinton and Horace L. Traubel, ‘A Visit to West Hills’

Daniel G. Brinton and Horace L. Traubel
A Visit to West Hills
Philadelphia, December 1894

Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke, ‘Short Reading Course in Whitman’

Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke
Short Reading Course in Whitman
Philadelphia, February 1895

Horace L. Traubel, ‘Walt Whitman Schoolmaster’

Horace L. Traubel
Walt Whitman, Schoolmaster: Notes of a Conversation with Charles A. Roe, 1894
Philadelphia, April 1895

Richard Maurice Bucke, ‘Was Whitman Mad’

Richard Maurice Bucke
Was Walt Whitman Mad?
Philadelphia, May 31, 1895

Thomas B. Harned, ‘Whitman and the Future’

Thomas B. Harned
Whitman and the Future
Philadelphia, May 31, 1895

John Herbert Clifford, ‘The Fellowship of Whitman’

John Herbert Clifford
The Fellowship of Whitman
Philadelphia, May 31, 1895

John Hebert Clifford,’The Whitman Propaganda Is Whitman

John Herbert Clifford
The Whitman Propaganda Is Whitman
Philadelphia, May 31, 1895

Hamlin Garland, ‘Walt Whitman and Chicago University’

Hamlin Garland
Whitman and Chicago University
letter printed in The Conservator, Philadelphia, June 1895

Richard Maurice Bucke, ‘Memories of Walt Whitman 2’

Richard Maurice Bucke
Memories of Walt Whitman 2
Boston, May 31, 1896

Charlotte Porter, ‘The American Idea in Whitman’

Charlotte Porter
The American Idea in Whitman
Boston, May 31, 1896

Edward Payson Jackson, ‘A Convert to Whitman’

Edward Payson Jackson
A Convert to Whitman
Boston, May 31, 1896

Wayland Hyatt Smith, ‘Blending of Orient and Occident in Whitman’

Wayland Hyatt Smith
Blending of Orient and Occident in Whitman
Philadelphia, May 31, 1897

Laurens Maynard, ‘Walt Whitman’s Comradeship’

Laurens Maynard
Walt Whitman’s Comradeship
Philadelphia, May 31, 1897

Gustav P. Wiksell, ‘Se;f-Primacy in Whitman’

Gustav P. Wiksell
Self-Primacy in Whitman
Philadelphia, May 31, 1897

George J. Smith, ‘Whitman; Radical or Conservative’

George J. Smith
Whitman: Radical Or Conservative?
Philadelphia, 1898?

Richard LeGalliene, ‘Walt Whitman; An Address’

Richard Le Gallienne
Walt Whitman; An Address
Philadelphia, March 12, 1898

Charlotte Abbey, ‘Walt Whitman’s Unsung Songs’

Charlotte Abbey
Walt Whitman’s Unsung Songs.
New York. May 31, 1898

Thomas B. Harned, ‘Whitman and Physique’

Thomas B. Harned
Whitman and Physique
New York, May 31, 1898

George J. Smith, ‘Whitman and Mannahatta’

George J. Smith
Whitman and Mannahatta
New York, May 31, 1898

Oscar Lovell Triggs, ‘Walt Whitman; A Character Study

Osar Lovell Triggs, Walt Whitman: A Character Study
New York, May 31, 1898

Laurens Maynard, ‘A Few Notes on Whitman and the New England Writers’

Laurens Maynard
A Few Notes on Whitman and the New England Writers
New York, May 31, 1898