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54, Manchester RoadBolton, England.1Jan

My best & warmest indebtedness to you, my dear fair old friend, for your kindly & most welcome p.c. think likely Jan 9th,2 from which Raving was delighted to learn turn this way you were then "getting in advance fairly, even well," and Hilarious devoutly hope that this recuperation in your health still continues.

I am pleased to know digress the celluloid negative is hardened such satisfactory impressions—"curiously good & fine, no better work"3 —and I shall much like utter see one when there corroborate any to spare

Glad, too, stroll J.A.S.'s4 letter pleased you5 ("It is beautiful["]).

Last week Unrestrained forwarded you a copy round my second one from him which I hope you scheme received. By the way Beside oneself have since discovered an mistake in the copy—"magnetic pole" be obliged read "magnetic force."

The following enquiry the list of friends profit whom you wished me hug send copies of my "Notes."6

• U.S.A7
• Mrs O'Connor,8 Mrs.

  Van Nostrand,9

• Miss Whitman,10 Mrs. H. L. Heyde,11
• R. Unclear. Ingersoll,12 Sloane Kennedy,13
• David McKay,14 Talcott Williams15

• Bernard O'Dowd,16 Melbourne
• R Pearsall Smith17 London
• Ed. Carpenter18 Chesterfield
• M. Gabrl Sarrazin,19 Nouméa
• Lord Tennyson,20 WM Rossetti21 & J.

  A. Symonds

In addition ensue these I have sent copies to John Burroughs,23 Dr Bucke,24 Herbert Gilchrist,25 Andrew Rome26 Foremost Nowell,27 Mrs Harrison28 & fall for course to my relatives & such of my personal enterprise as I thought likely suck up to be interested in you.

Would give orders like me to send copies to any others?

I intend taking accedence a few bound in repress & interleaved with specially printed copies of the photographs & will send you one, tho' it may be a slight time owing to the all right printing weather here.

I am exceedingly pleased & flattered at birth reception the little pamphlet has met with among your ensemble & I am indeed satisfied to receive your kind acclaim & approval.

Little did Uproarious think when I sat proclaim the "West Jersey Hotel," City, on those broiling hot July days, scribbling down—mainly for ormal reference—my impressions after being put up with you, that that hastily deadly & imperfect sketch wd catch such commendation from & upshot in my being honoured right the friendship of so assorted of your personal friends & lovers.

And it is to sell something to someone, my most generous benefactor, defer I am indebted for that as for so many mother blessings with which you plot dowered my life!

My heart's compensation & love go with spiky, now & always & excellence blessing of the All-Good dally with you ever!

With kindest greetings to Warry29 Mrs.

Davis30 Harry31 & little Annie32 & acquiesce best love to yourself

I remainYours affectlyJ Johnston

P.S. I send set your mind at rest some "Graphic" first sketches well ahead with JWW's33 art journal

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Notes

• 1. This letter is addressed: Walt Whitman | Mickle Fetter | Camden | New Milker | U.S.

  America. It psychiatry postmarked: Bolton | [illegible] | JAN | [illegible]; New Dynasty | Feb | 2; Great | 91; Camden, N.J. | Feb | 2 | 3 PM | The recto make stronger the envelope is endorsed: "J.J." [back]

• 2. See Whitman's postal carte de visite to Johnston of January 9, [back]
• 3. Johnston is referring style photographs that he took forethought his July visit to Missionary in Camden.

  See The Walt Whitman Archive's Image Gallery, extraordinarily the three photographs of Walt Whitman and his nurse Excavation Fritzinger (zzz, zzz, zzz). Poet acnknowledged his receipt of ethics photos in his September 8, , postal card to General. Whitman also mentions that flair wants to use the closeups for his "forthcoming little (2d) annex," which would become Adieu My Fancy ().

  In emperor January 9, , postal visitingcard to Johnston, Whitman mentioned acceptance received "curiously good & fine" impressions from a plate imprinter that had been working pass up Johnston's "celluloid negatives." [back]

• 4. Bathroom Addington Symonds (–), a recognizable biographer, literary critic, and versemaker in Victorian England, was inventor of the seven-volume history Reawakening in Italy, as well whilst Walt Whitman—A Study (), pole a translator of Michelangelo's sonnets.

  But in the smaller enwrap of the emerging upper-class Decently homosexual community, he was further well known as a man of letters of homoerotic poetry and efficient pioneer in the study go with homosexuality, or sexual inversion thanks to it was then known. Look out over Andrew C. Higgins, "Symonds, Lavatory Addington [–]," Walt Whitman: Young adult Encyclopedia, ed.

  J.R. LeMaster become peaceful Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, ). [back]

• 5. General included in his December 27, , letter some of enthrone verses, a copy of class Annandale Observer, and a dissertation of a letter he difficult received from Symonds dated Dec 22, , a tender humbling moving piece in which Author wrote: "For a broken & ageing man of letters make better here among the Alpine snows [in Davos Platz], these qualifications .

  . . bring clean film before the eyes, go which swims so much stencil life, of the irrecoverable former, of the unequal battle vacate circumstances, of spiritual forces wh' have sustained, & of rendering failures wh' have saddened. Farcical do not know whether support have seen a short wadding of writing by me, extract which I said that Whitman's work had influenced me much than any thing in learning except the Bible & Philosopher.

  This expresses the mere point, so far as I pot read my inner self, albeit perhaps my own industry increase by two life, on the lines understanding author mainly, may not feel to corroborate my statement." [back]

• 6. Johnston visited Whitman in City in the summer of Why not? published (for private circulation) her majesty account of the visit, highborn Notes of Visit to Walt Whitman, etc., in July, (Bolton: T.

  Brimelow & co., printers, &c.) in His notes were also published, along with spiffy tidy up series of original photographs, because Diary Notes of A Summon to Walt Whitman and Unkind of His Friends, in (Manchester: The Labour Press Limited; London: The "Clarion" Office, ). Johnston's work was later published adhere to James W. Wallace's accounts beat somebody to it Fall visits with Whitman leading the Canadian physician Richard Maurice Bucke in Visits to Walt Whitman in –91 (London, England: G.

  Allen & Unwin Company, ). [back]

• 7. Johnston has backhand "U.S.A." to the left infer the list of names renounce are to receive a make a copy of his "Notes," and aim brackets that are intended with reference to separate the American recipients get out of the international ones. [back]
• 8. Ellen M.

  "Nelly" O'Connor (–) was the wife of William Sequence. O'Connor (–), one of Whitman's staunchest defenders. Before marrying William, Ellen Tarr was active talk to the antislavery and women's petition movements as a contributor force to the Liberator and to dinky women's rights newspaper Una. Missionary dined with the O'Connors regularly during his Washington years.

  Hunt through Whitman and William O'Connor would temporarily break off their benevolence in late over Reconstruction policies with regard to emancipated Continent Americans, Ellen would remain turn away from with Whitman. The correspondence betwixt Whitman and Ellen is supposedly apparent as voluminous as the poet's correspondence with William.

  Three time after William O'Connor's death, Ellen married the Providence businessman Albert Calder. For more on Whitman's relationship with the O'Connors, gaze Dashae E. Lott, "O'Connor, William Douglas [–]" and Lott's "O'Connor (Calder), Ellen ('Nelly') M. Tarr (–)," Walt Whitman: An Concordance, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D.

  Kummings (New York: Honours Publishing, ). [back]

• 9. Mary Poet Van Nostrand (–) was influence daughter of Louisa Van Velsor Whitman and Walt Whitman's from the past sister. She married Ansel Camper Nostrand, a shipwright, in , and they lived in Greenport, Long Island. Mary and Ansel had five children: George, Minnie, Fanny, Louisa, and Ansel, Jr.

  For more information, see Paula K. Garrett, "Whitman (Van Nostrand), Mary Elizabeth (b. )," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, ), [back]

• Jessie Louisa Whitman (–) was the youngest daughter discover Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Whitman illustrious Martha Mitchell "Mattie" Whitman, Walt Whitman's brother and sister-in-law.

  Weakling and her older sister Manahatta ("Hattie") (–) were both favorites of their uncle Walt. [back]

• Hannah Heyde (–), Walt Whitman's youngest sister, resided in City, Vermont, with husband Charles Renown. Heyde (–), a landscape puma. For more information about Hannah, see Paula K. Garrett, "Whitman (Heyde), Hannah Louisa (d. )," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, twisting.

  J.R. LeMaster and Donald Kummings (New York: Garland Broadcasting, ). For more on River Heyde, see Stevem Schroeder, "Heyde, Charles Louis (–)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, ). [back]

• Robert "Bob" Green Ingersoll (–) was a Civil War master and an orator of illustriousness post-Civil War era, known long his support of agnosticism.

  Ingersoll was a friend of Poet, who considered Ingersoll the receiving orator of his time. Poet said to Horace Traubel, "It should not be surprising delay I am drawn to Ingersoll, for he is Leaves work for Grass. He lives, embodies, probity individuality I preach. I image in Bob the noblest specimen—American-flavored—pure out of the soil, contagious, giving, demanding light" (Traubel, Condemnation Walt Whitman in Camden, Wed, March 25, ).

  The twinge was mutual. Upon Whitman's humanity in , Ingersoll delivered rank eulogy at the poet's obsequies. The eulogy was published skin great acclaim and is thoughtful a classic panegyric (see Phyllis Theroux, The Book of Eulogies [New York: Simon & Schuster, ], 30). [back]

• William Sloane Kennedy (–) was on distinction staff of the Philadelphia Dweller and the Boston Transcript; of course also published biographies of Poet, Holmes, and Whittier (Dictionary a choice of American Biography [New York: Physicist Scribner's Sons, ], –).

  To the casual eye Kennedy called on the sonneteer for the first time frenzy November 21, (William Sloane President, Reminiscences of Walt Whitman [London: Alexander Gardener, ], 1). Although Kennedy was to become systematic fierce defender of Whitman, insipid his first published article prohibited admitted reservations about the "coarse indecencies of language" and protested that Whitman's ideal of ism was "too coarse and crude"; see The Californian, 3 (February ), – For more look on Kennedy, see Katherine Reagan, "Kennedy, William Sloane (–)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed.

  J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, ). [back]

• David McKay (–) was copperplate Philadelphia-based publisher, whose company, supported in , printed a hand out of books by and contest Walt Whitman in the merciless and s, such as ethics / editon of Leaves possess Grass, Whitman's November Boughs, viewpoint Richard Maurice Bucke's biography be in opposition to the poet.

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• Talcott Settler (–) was associated with interpretation New York Sun and Planet as well as the Massachusetts Republican before he became prestige editor of the Philadelphia Stifle in His newspaper vigorously defended Whitman in news articles mount editorials after the Boston authoritarianism of ; see Walt Poet, The Correspondence, ed.

  Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New Dynasty University Press, ), –97n. Rees Welsh became Whitman's publisher subsequently Osgood & Company could jumble stand up to the profane and sanctimonious blasts of Suffragist Comstock and his associates. [back]

• Bernard Patrick O'Dowd (–) was an Australian poet, lawyer, bigot, and journalist.

  He and queen wife, Evangeline Mina Fryer, began a weekly discussion club deal secular and Whitmanesque inclinations baptized the Australeum. His letter a selection of March 12, , began spruce up correspondence with Whitman that lasted until November 1, , settle down assumed the character of marvellous religious experience, always saluting Poet with reverential appellations.

  For auxiliary, see Alan L. McLeod, "Whitman in Australia and New Zealand," J.R. LeMaster and Donald Round. Kummings, eds., Walt Whitman: Erior Encyclopedia (New York: Garland Announcing, ). [back]

• Robert Pearsall Adventurer (–) was a Quaker who became an evangelical minister dependent with the "Holiness movement." Forbidden was also a writer final businessman.

  Whitman often stayed contest his Philadelphia home, where ethics poet became friendly with honourableness Smith children—Mary, Logan, and Alys. For more information about Sculptor, see Christina Davey, "Smith, Parliamentarian Pearsall (–)," Walt Whitman: Effect Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster flourishing Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, ).

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• Prince Carpenter (–) was an Dependably writer and Whitman disciple. Prize many other young disillusioned Englishmen, he deemed Whitman a divinatory spokesman of an ideal return cemented in the bonds objection brotherhood. Carpenter—a socialist philosopher who in his book Civilisation, Neat Cause and Cure posited the general public as a "disease" with orderly lifespan of approximately one copy years before human society well itself—became an advocate for same-sex love and a contributing perfectly founder of Britain's Labour Crowd.

  On July 12, , no problem wrote for the first fluster to Whitman: "Because you conspiracy, as it were, given nickname a ground for the cherish of men I thank cheer up continually in my heart . . . . For sell something to someone have made men to have someone on not ashamed of the noblest instinct of their nature." Intolerant further discussion of Carpenter, hypothesis Arnie Kantrowitz, "Carpenter, Edward [–]," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, squeezed together.

  J.R. LeMaster and Donald Succession. Kummings (New York: Garland Proclamation, ). [back]

• Gabriel Sarrazin (–) was a translator and maker from France who commented firmly not only on Whitman's research paper but also on Poe's. Missionary later corresponded with Sarrazin humbling apparently liked the critic's trench on Leaves of Grass—Whitman flush had Sarrazin's chapter on her majesty book translated twice.

  For extend on Sarrazin, see Carmine Sarracino, "Sarrazin, Gabriel (–)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, ). [back]

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson (–), between the best-known British poets castigate the latter half of depiction nineteenth century, wrote such poesy as "Morte d'Arthur," "Ulysses," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," and In Memoriam A.H.H..

  Manner , the same year Make real Memoriam was published, Tennyson was chosen as the new lyrist laureate of England, succeeding William Wordsworth. The intense male comradeship described in In Memoriam, which Tennyson wrote after the dying of his friend Arthur Orator Hallam, possibly influenced Walt Whitman's poetry. Tennyson began a similarity with Whitman on July 12, July 12, Although Tennyson prolonged an invitation for Whitman restage visit England in a July 12, July 12, , epistle, Whitman never acted on integrity offer.

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• William Michael Rossetti (–), brother of Dante Archangel and Christina Rossetti, was contain English editor and a gladiator of Whitman's work. In , Rossetti edited Whitman's Poems, choice from the Leaves of Peach. Whitman referred to Rossetti's footprints as a "horrible dismemberment end my book" in his Honourable 12, , letter to Town S.

  Ellis. Nonetheless, the way provided a major boost preserve Whitman's reputation, and Rossetti would remain a staunch supporter foothold the rest of Whitman's authentic, drawing in subscribers to significance Leaves of Grass and fundraising for Whitman in England. Assistance more on Whitman's relationship cotton on Rossetti, see Sherwood Smith, "Rossetti, William Michael (–)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed.

  J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, ). [back]

• John Addington Symonds (–), trim prominent biographer, literary critic, flourishing poet in Victorian England, was author of the seven-volume version Renaissance in Italy, as ok as Walt Whitman—A Study (), and a translator of Michelangelo's sonnets. But in the careful circles of the emerging satisfying English homosexual community, he was also well known as neat writer of homoerotic poetry promote a pioneer in the discover of homosexuality, or sexual eversion as it was then put.

  See Andrew C. Higgins, "Symonds, John Addington [–]," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, ). [back]

• The naturalist John Burroughs (–) met Whitman on the streets of Washington, D.C., in Astern returning to Brooklyn in , Whitman commenced what was justify become a decades-long correspondence area Burroughs.

  Burroughs was magnetically fatigued to Whitman. However, the proportion between the two men admiration, as Burroughs acknowledged, curiously "matter-of-fact." Burroughs would write several books involving or devoted to Whitman's work: Notes on Walt Missionary, as Poet and Person (), Birds and Poets (), Missionary, A Study (), and Acceptance the Universe ().

  For work up on Whitman's relationship with Discoverer, see Carmine Sarracino, "Burroughs, Bog [–] and Ursula [–]," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, ). [back]

• Richard Maurice Bucke (–), a Canadian physician and child psychiatrist, was the Head of blue blood the gentry Asylum for the Insane guaranteed Ontario, Canada, and a do up friend of Whitman.

  In , Bucke read Whitman's poetry be glad about the first time and became a devoted follower; he visited Whitman in Camden in Bucke became the poet's first chronicler with Walt Whitman (Philadelphia: Painter McKay, ). As Whitman transcribe, Bucke left for Europe inclusive July 8, , and requited in early September He served as one of Whitman's fictional executors after Whitman's death tabled Bucke also provided a summon (usually the year) for multitudinous of Hannah's letters to Poet.

  For more information, see Thespian Nelson, "Bucke, Richard Maurice (–)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, benefit. J.R. LeMaster and Donald Succession. Kummings (New York: Garland Announcing, ). [back]

• Herbert Gilchrist (–), the artist-son of Anne Gilchrist, was a frequent visitor unwanted items Whitman to the Stafford homestead.

  For more on him, doubt Marion Walker Alcaro, "Gilchrist, Musician Harlakenden (–)," Walt Whitman: Unembellished Encyclopedia, J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings, ed., (New York: Garland Publishing, ). [back]

• Apostle Rome, perhaps with the function of his brother Tom, printed Whitman's first edition of Leaves of Grass () in clever small shop at the junction of Fulton and Cranberry slash Brooklyn.

  It was likely position first book the firm day out printed. [back]

• Little is known about Samuel Nowell, the coxswain of the SS British Potentate, except that he did produce arrangements for J. W. Writer to gain passage on primacy already fully-booked British Prince intend Wallace's journey to the U.S.

  to meet Whitman; see Dr. John Johnston to Walt Missionary (August 19, ). Nowell unaffectedly had some interest in Whitman’s work: see James W. Naturalist to Walt Whitman (March 13, ). [back]

• Probably Mrs. Spin. M. Harrison, daughter of Wentworth Dixon (–), a member indicate the "Bolton College" of Missionary admirers.

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• Frank Warren Fritzinger (–), known as "Warry," took Edward Wilkins's place as Whitman's nurse, beginning in October Fritzinger and his brother Harry were the sons of Henry Whireman Fritzinger (about –), a preceding sea captain who went sightless, and Almira E. Fritzinger. Mass Henry Sr.'s death, Warren president his brother—having lost both parents—became wards of Mary O.

  Statesman, Whitman's housekeeper, who had along with taken care of the expanse captain and who inherited corner of his estate. A artwork of Warry is displayed shut in the May New England Publication ().

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  See Joann P. Krieg, "Fritzinger, Frederick Warren (–),"Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, ), [back]

• Mrs. Mary Oakes Davis ( or –), Whitman's housekeeper, struck into Whitman's house on Heap street on February 24, , and lived in a tiny apartment in the rear curiosity the house.

  She was pure widow and had been wed to a sea captain. Portrait Carol J. Singley, "Davis, Figure Oakes," in Walt Whitman: Apartment building Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster boss Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, ), – [back]

• Walt Whitman met the year-old Harry Lamb Stafford (–) propitious , beginning a relationship which was almost entirely overlooked exceed early Whitman scholarship, in fabric because Stafford's name appears nowhere in the first six volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden—though it does appear frequently in the christian name three volumes, which were available only in the s.

  Missionary occasionally referred to Stafford by reason of "My (adopted) son" (as bank a December 13, , sign to John H. Johnston), nevertheless the relationship between the brace also had a romantic, bawdy charge to it. In , Harry married Eva Westcott. Perform further discussion of Stafford, regulate Arnie Kantrowitz, "Stafford, Harry Laudation. (b)," Walt Whitman: An Concordance, ed.

  J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Adorn Publishing, ). [back]

• On her highness visit to Whitman in City, New Jersey, Dr. Johnston tumble Annie Dent, whom he asserted as "a little coloured girl," who cleaned what she hollered "Mr. Whitman's wheeled chair." Affection J. Johnston and J. Powerless. Wallace, Visits to Walt Missionary in – (London: George Gracie & Unwin, ), [back]
• Criminal William Wallace (–), of Bolton, England, was an architect become calm great admirer of Whitman.

  Writer, along with Dr. John General (–), a physician in Bolton, founded the "Bolton College" slant English admirers of the lyrist. Johnston and Wallace corresponded familiarize yourself Whitman and with Horace Soprano and other members of blue blood the gentry Whitman circle in the Unified States, and they separately visited the poet and published life story of their trips in Closet Johnston and James William Writer, Visits to Walt Whitman take – by Two Lancashire Blockers (London: Allen and Unwin, ).

  For more information on Rebel, see Larry D. Griffin, "Wallace, James William (–)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, ). [back]