Sculley Bradley, Introduction; With Walt Whitman in Camden, vol. 4
Posted here (PDF above):
Sculley Bradley
Introduction
Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden; Volume 4; January 21-April 7, 1889
edited by Sculley Bradley
Southern Illinois University Press, 1959
— posted by Roger W. Smith
September 2024
Horace Traubel, Preface; With Walt Whitman in Camden
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Horace Traubel
Preface to Walt Whitman in Camden, Volume 1, March 28-July 14, 1888 (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, Inc. 1961)
— posted by Roger W. Smith
September 2024
‘Walt Whitman – With Glimpses of Chase and O’Connor’
Posted here (PDF above) is Chapter XII (“Walt Whitman—With Glimpses of [Salmon P.] Chase and [William D.] O’Connor”) from
John Townsend Trowbridge, My Own Story: Recollections of Noted Persons (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903)
John Townsend Trowbridge (1827-1916) was an American author and novelist. He lived for most of his adult life in Arlington, Massachusetts. Trowbridge was a friend of Mark Twain and Walt Whitman.
Also posted here:
John T. Trowbridge obituary, Boston Globe, February 13, 1916
J. T. Trowbridge obituary, Chicago Tribune, February 13, 1916
“Trowbridge and Whitman,” Boston Globe, February 20, 1916
‘Trowbridge and Whitman’ – Boston Globe 2-20-1916
— posted by Roger W. Smith
May 2023
Keller, ‘Walt Whitman on Mickle Street’
Posted here as a PDF document, a rare book of biographical interest:
Elizabeth Leavitt Keller, Walt Whitman in Mickle Street (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1921)
Mrs. Keller was Whitman’s nurse in his final years.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
February 2023
Some personal reminiscences from those who knew Walt Whitman personally and had ongoing contact with him informally.
ELLEN M. CALDER
“O’Connor,” Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998), pp. 475-477
O’Connor – Walt Whitman Encyclopedia
MARY JORDAN
Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Snow-Storm
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) was an English poet and essayist born in the City of London late in 1618. He was one of the leading English poets of the 17th century.
Stephen Pearl Andrews (1812-1886) was an American libertarian socialist, individualist anarchist, linguist, political philosopher, outspoken abolitionist and author of several books on the labor movement and individualist anarchism.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
January 2023
Robert G. Ingersoll, ‘Address at the Funeral of Walt Whitman’
Posted here (downloadable PDF document above) is Robert G. Ingersoll’s eulogy for Walt Whitman, which was delivered on March 30, 1892 at Harleigh Cemetery in Camden, New Jersey.
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Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899) was an American lawyer, writer, and orator. Known as “The Great Agnostic,” Ingersoll was a staunch advocate of free thought.
Ingersoll was a close friend of Walt Whitman. They had profound admiration for one another, as can be seen by anyone who reads Horace Traubel’s multivolume work With Walt Whitman in Camden. “It should not be surprising that I am drawn to Ingersoll, for he is ‘Leaves of Grass’ … He lives, embodies, the individuality, I preach. I see in Bob [Ingersoll] the noblest specimen–American-flavored–pure out of the soil, spreading, giving, demanding light,” Whitman told Traubel.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
March 2021
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