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Badger All right! reterted' The Oorham Brest : Botton : U.S.A. WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND \ To My Wife Garnett Turner Elliot Without whose inapiration and loving encouragement it had not been I Dedicate This Book Charles N. Elliot WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND WHY THIS BOOK? Perhaps no man contributing to world literature hcis been tRe subject of so many books, magazine articles and pamphlets as Walt Whitman. Certainly no American has. Even at the time of his death the number of critical studies of his work, favorable or adverse, often bitterly so, constituted a formidable array. Each year since, the list has grown by at least one book devoted wholly or in part to the subject of Whitman's life and work. Among all these varied writings, hmoever, could be found only here and there direct, personal, first-hand accounts of Whitman's everyday life; his daily walk and talk. Within the past few years this deficiency has been generously supplied through the loving labor of the poet's devoted friend, Horace Traubel.* The pages which follow were originally gathered with no view to publication, but to supply anecdotal material in the handwriting of Whitman's known friends for my own Whitman collection, thus, in a measure, supplying the lack mentioned above. Uniform sized sheets of the finest note paper, with margins defined, were sent to as many friends of the poet as could be reached, requesting an anecdote about him. The results from these earlier letters were mostly of an unsatisfactory nature, and, later, the wording of the *"With Walt Whitman in Camden,'' hy Horace Traubel. Vols. I, II and III. Mitchell Kennerley, Publisher. 10 WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND invitation to contribute was changed to include anec- dotes, reminiscences, or tributes to Whitman's memory. The list of contributors was enlarged to include those who, though not having known him personally, yet wrote notable things about him. These were asked for some expression regarding his work. The response was now in nearly every instance prompt and of great interest to lovers of Whitman. Because of the wealth of interesting material and its unique form, I feel it my duty to allow its reprodvMion in facsimile before the original sheets are bound into the memorial volume my imagination pictured when I began the collection nearly a score of years ago. To those contributors still living, who by their generous response made this volume possible, I wish once more to extend my heartfelt thanks. To Mr. Horace Traubel I am indebted for per- mission to use quotations from his recorded conversa- tions with Whitman regarding certain contributors to this book. C. N. E. Astoria, Oregon, May 31, 1915. WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 11 CONTENTS Page Why This Book? 9 Walt Whitman cm Man, Poet and Friend . . 15 — Si CONTRIBUTIONS FROM Leon Basalgette ........ SS Henry Bryan Binna ....... 31 Daniel Q. Brinton ........ 37 Richard Maurice Bucke ....... i3 John Burroughs ........ 53 Ellen M. Colder 59 Andrew Carnegie ........ 63 Edward Carpenter ........ 67 John Vance Cheney ....... 73 Edward Dowden ........ 77 Peter Doyle ......... 81 Annie Fields ........ 87 Hamlin Garland ........ 91 Jeajiette L. Gilder ....... 95 Richard Watson Gilder ....... 99 Thomas B. Harned 103 John Hay ......... HI W. D. Howells 115 ElbeH Hubbard 119 J. Newton Johnson ....... ISS Dr. J. Johnston ........ 131 Alma Colder Johnston ....... 137 J. H. Johnston ■'■47 William Sloone Kennedy . ■ ■ ■ 173 Hamilton Wright Mobie . . . ■ . .181 David McKay ........ 187 Laurens Maynord . . ■ ■ • .191 Joaquin Miller . . . . • ■ ■ ■ 1^7 Bliss Perry SOt Isaac Hull Piatt S05 IS WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND CONTENTS Whitelaw Reid Theodore Roosevelt . William Michael Rossetti Henry S. Saunders Edmund Clarence Stedman Horace Traubel Oscar Lovell Triggs A. E. Trimble W. H. Trimble John Townsend Trowbridge Charles Dudley Warner . Page 211 $16 U5 S55 WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND IS ILLUSTRATIONS Walt Whitman — Aet. 6S — Photo by Phillips and Taylor, Philadelphia (Frontispiece) .... Dr. R. M. Bucke — India Ink Drawing by Romaine Elliot, after Photograph by Charles N . Elliot — 1899 . Post Card to Pete Doyle ..... Fae-Simile of Whitman s Manuscript . One of Whitman's Discarded Titles A Whitman Lecture Ticket .... Walt Whitman and Two Little Friends Page 107 108 109 153 WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 15 WALT WHITMAN AS MAN Carleton Noyes, in his wonderfully sympathetic little book* remarks that "the avenues of approach to Whitman are many, . . . but in general I believe that he has most for those who meet him at the outset as a man." How true is this observation has been proven in the experience of growing thousands of Whit- man lovers. Whether Whitman belongs to the great order of poets and philosophers may possibly be open to argument; hut his life, an open book, is one of the richest heritages of our race, and is in itself an ever-living inspiration to all who come into touch vnth it. Needless here to attempt the drawing of a picture which has been so well executed by more facile pens. Whitman the Man, with his majestic mien and nobly domed head, is limned in unfading pigments on the pages of Bucke, Burroughs, O'Connor, Carpenter and Johnston. Besides these intimate full-length portraits, we have innumerable sketches and casual glimpses, in all of which one dominant note recurs — their subject was a man, a well-rounded, virile, gentle man. *" An Approach to Wali Whitman," by Carleton Noget; Houghton Mifflin Company, Publisher*. 16 WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND Men and women of all degrees of social and intel- lectual capacity, knowing Whitman intimately, or coming but once into his presence, a^ree upon the point of his intrinsic manhood. Peter Doyle, a "powerful, uneducated person," conductor on a Washington Street car, says there was "no trace of any kind of dissipation in him. I ought to know about him those years — we were awful close together He had an easy, gentle way, the same for all, no matter who they were or what their sex.* Frances E. Willard, the gentle, cultured apostle of temperance, describes her only meeting tvith Whit- man thus: " There appeared upon the scene a man about seventy years of age, attired in gray, from his soft gray overcoat to his old-fashioned gray mittens, with sparse gray hair, kind, twinkling gray eyes, and russet apple cheeks, the mildest, most modest and simple-hearted man I ever saw. . . . What he really is I do not know. I only tell about him as he was to me, and his sense of God, Nature and Human Brotherhood struck me as having been raised to such a power, and fu^ed in such a white heat of devotion, that they made the man a genius."^ QuotatioTis might be multiplied, from persons who admired Whitman's writings and from those who utterly disagreed with them, showing that the universal *" Calamus — Letters to Peter Doyle," edited by Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke. Small, Maynard & Co., Publishers. t" Glimpses of Fifty Years," by Frances E. Willard. WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND 17 impression of Whitman as a man was invariably in harmony vnth the two just given. There never has been any honest divergence from this universal judg- ment by those who came actually into Whitman's presence. It took a person developed to the full stature of potent manhood, possessed of the highest attributes of physical endurance, moral courage and deep affec- tions, to carry out Whitman's self-imposed task of nursing the sick and wounded in the terrible hospitals of the Civil War. Yet, under the great emotional strain, and after wearing nights of death-bed watching, we see the man Whitman, immaculately clean, with cheerful face and heartening voice, radiating the strength of his manhood into the torn and shattered occupants of the army cots. When, health broken through exposure during the hospital days, his message of sanity, love and humanity ridiculed, in the words of John Addington Symonds, "the sweetness of his nature, his affectionateness for others and the sanguine faith, which was his piety, were never altered. Poverty cam,e to make the situation still more serious. Yet the real beauty and goodness of the man never shone more fully than in those over- clouded days." 18 WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND AS POET "What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man endowed with more lively sensibility, m,ore en- thusiasm and tenderness, who has greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind." These words from William Wordsworth's "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" might well have been written about the individual Walt Whitman. From the day when America's sensitized soul was embodied in the slender volume which drew so cordial a greeting from Emerson's kindred spirit, down even to the present, there has been waged a foolish controversy over the question of Walt Whitman's right to the title of Poet, Volumes have been written pro and con. Valuable time has been spent, and much good white paper wasted in attempts to prove that Whitman was a poet, was not a poet. In the meantime, while the dispute over nothing waxed and waned, Walt Whitman has gone serenely on his joyous way, " bestowing upon any man or woman the entrance to all the gifts of the universe." Does it have to be mathematically demon- strated, by metre, feet and rhyme, that the man whose written words can do this is a poet? Especially when the definition of what constitutes a poet varies so undely according to the highest accepted authorities. Ob- viously the sane and sensible thing to do is to take "Leaves of Grass," "go to the heights or water-shore," and there read Walt Whitman's message to YOU. W ALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 19 If, in your soul, you feel no sympathetic response, then for you Whitman is no poet, and you are to be pitied that the gift of understanding has been denied you. Among all the boohs which have sought to interpret Whitman to those who should need no such service performed, "Walt Whitman — A Study," by John Addington Symonds is, all points considered, the mx)st sympathetic and helpful. Hear this scholar's verdict, given after exhaustive study of all Whitman's writings. It may lead you out under the stars of the good gray poet's orb-hung sky if you be timid about reading some- thing not bearing the hall-mark of a tested critic's ap- proval. Mr. Symonds affirms: " To my mind Whit- man did indubitably produce poetry, and poetry of a very high order. . . . Those who demur or doubt may address themselves to an impartial study of his writings. It is enough for me, trained in Greek and Latin classics, in the literatures of Italy and France and Germany and England, who have spent my life in continuous addiction to literature, and who am the devotee of what is powerful and beautiful in style — it is enough for me to pledge my reputation as a critic upon what I have asserted." so WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND AS FRIEND "Publish my name and hang up my picture as that of the tenderest lover. The friend, the lover's portrait, of whom his friend his lover was fondest. Who was not jyroud of his songs, but of the measureless ocean of love within him and freely poured it forth." "Leaves of Grass." " Something more may be added — for, while I am about it, I would make a full confession. I also sent out 'Leaves of Grass' to arouse and set flowing in men's and women's hearts, young and old, endless streams of living, pulsating love and friendship, directly from them to myself, now and ever." "Two Rivulets," 1876. Preface, p. 11. Two books, published since Whitman's death, bear witness, as nothing else does, to Whitman's individual and cosmic attributes as a friend. In "Calamus," a series of letters to Peter Doyle, we have Whitman the friend of the individual; while in " The Wound-Dresser," we have a record of Whitman the universal friend, the devoted, tireless friend of thousands of the sick and wounded of our Civil War. These two books, given to the world by Whitman's friend and biographer, Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke, are invaluable as proof positive that with this poet, friend- ship — unconfined, unconditional, world-wide friend- ship — was no mere abstraction but a vital part of the man himself. They give new generations of readers glimpses into a heart so warmly pulsating with love of his kind that even though its throbs be stilled under the WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND SI granite of Harleigh Cemetery, yet the powerful love- currents generated there radiate in ever-toidening circles to enthral, ennoble and renew men and women fortunate enough to possess heart-strings attuned to the music of "Leaves of Grass," which in reality is Whitman's voice, "soft, clear and sympathetic," speaking still to the world. A companion volume to this was originally planned, which should include autograph pages by Whitman's less famous friends — veterans of the hospital days, 'bus-drivers and others whose names are not enrolled in the halls of fame, but whose words in praise of their good gray friend would be none the less valuable to succeeding generations of his lovers. Pleas to G. A. R re-unions and letters sent to ancient addresses, how- ever, have netted but meagre results. The Grim Reaper is rapidly thinning the ranks of those who had personal knowledge of Whitman the Friend, and the present volume will probably be the only one of its kind to be gathered together in memory of Walt Whitman as Man, Poet and Friend. CHARLES N. ELLIOT. Astoria, Oregon, May 31, 1915. WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND SS WALT WHITMAN'S TRIBUTE TO HIS FRIENDS "Whitman lay there on his bed. His eyes were closed. 'Horace,' he said, 'there are some things in the world too big for it: they seem to crowd it out at the sides — to demand more room. I have had to spend a good deal of time for thirty years thinking of my enemies: they have made me think of them: even when I have tried to forget I had any enemies, they have com- pelled me to reckon with them. But when I turn about and look at my friends — the friends I have had: how sacred, stern, noble, they have been: the few of them: when I have thought of them I have realized the intrinsic immensity of the human spirit and feel as if I lived environed by gods. I do not mean to be extravagant — to say too much — Horace: you know how much I hate gush, effusion, flattery: but I can't help acknowledging that while I have had the worM enemies that ever were, I have also had the best friends that ever were: perhaps the one comes to offset the other — the passionate love to offset the venomous hate. I don't need to name any one: yet there are Dowden, Symonds: there is William: John, too: and do you know Swinton? he is fiery true always: oh! what's the use? They don't need to be named to you: and then Mrs. Gilchrist — a woman among women; she saw me as no one else did — certainly no other m WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND woman ever did. Here we have had the hate and the love: how I have been bedeviled! how I have been blessed! I never feel quite certain of myself — certainly I am never certain of the Leaves: the Leaves still seem to be a trial merely: but my friends — of you — of Rossetti, of Tom, of Doctor, of Rolleston — oh! after all there are quite a lot of you: oh! of you I feel certain: there is no doubt about you: you are my rock of ages: but for you, for the assurances you have always been bringing me — you fellows — I would never feel that I and my book had done more than simply parsed across the sta^e into oblivion.' " "With Walt Whitman in Camden," Vol. Ill, pp. 513-51 1. WALT WHITMAN AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND LEON BAZALGETTE S6 WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND ' star of France, Finish'd the days, the clouds dispel'd. The travail o'er, the long-sought extrication, When lo! reborn, high o'er the European world, {In gladness answering thence, as face afar to face, reflecting ours Columbia,) Again thy star, France, fair, lustrous star. In heavenly peace, clearer, more bright than ever. Shall beam immortal." 'Aviumn RivuleU." W ALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND S7 88 WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 5it/i ftf,^ iJ- oL. CH* v^ , di*- ^oLsusLoLJ^ WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND S9 ^^^^acAs'G^ ^ Sou. CO-^Mona-^ ^c> "<***« -»«t^ •^Mjju eta. SCCU[/^&^ UAetT' ZaJaZ^ 0h yC^^^4a, UA»jt^ /^*- 6*/^fi4 &nji^n4^ Si WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND O*^ y C&cu^ tfyJ^tMA fte^vce-^ /^r(U JM^i h^h^cU t^aX^ WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND SB vca.A:.'C\s^y(u(/u. eiyv-cr^r-^ iter V^!c<*^ Aii;fe^, .e^H/ru;f WALT WHITMAN AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 37 DANIEL G. BRINTON S8 WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND "Brinton is a master-man — stern, resolute, loyal — yes, what I like {in the best sense) to call adhesive: a good comrade, a ripe intellect." "With Walt Whitman in Camden," Vol. I, p. 128. WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND ^^^^^^*^ .^ygv,^^^ -^i.^*^-,?:^^ to WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND ^^•^^t^^frC^-. AU'C^ 'Cy^ i^^^TD^f -^^^^^ /if9-t.f^ . ^«^ yU^,^'^/^ /ie^U-^^y^ ifp^Ut-^:-^ -'^€Z^ WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND iS RICHARD MAURICE BUCKE U WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND "Bucke is not a man whose friendship is to be despised: quite the other way — a man of whom a fellow may be proud. Doctor is of English parentage — lives in Canada — is an exceptionally strong character: is a great complex of tradition and rebellion: I admire his eligibility to employ the conventions while in no way undervaluing them. He is very worldly — yet also very not-worldly — has great ability to make his way in the world, yet always has eye and ear for the higher considerations. Bucke's spirits are unfailing. You know he is a great cripple: he lost that one leg, has lost the toes of the other foot, out in the West, in the mountains: . yet Bucke is a whole man: he has lived down his losses — is always the same free, simple, manly man." "With Walt Whitman in Camden," Vol. I, p. S77. WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND i6 A PEiRSONAL NOTE ON THE aOOD GRAY POST. In the year 1880 Walt Whitman accompanied me from Philadelphia to London and remained with me, in my house, for four months, June, July, Au^st, September. Had it not been for the ample opporttmity thus afforded for observing and studying the man it is likely I should never have known (though I mi^t have divined) what sort of personality lived behind the pages of his great book. WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND The old poet was sixty-one past while with me; he was a large, exceed- ingly, handsome man with very white hair and more than usual color in his face; in manner he was unusually quiet i, unassuming and undemonstrative, he wore a whit© shirt Xwith a large turn down collar open at the throat, and light grey-i-tweed suit. His person and everything about him seemed con- stantly breathing (as it were) an air of what might be called inmaculateness . Every decent individual is clean in person and clothing, but in him there was something beyond that, which though WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND i7 vividly present to my mind this moment I find it difficult if not impossible to put in words. Perhaps the terms purity and freshness best express what I mean - the feeling (for instance) con- veyed by a bright breezy spring or sum- mer morning. As you associated more and more with him you perceived that the qiiality in question was not merely phy- sical, not belonging solely to his person a4d raiment, but that it inhered, to at least an equal degree, in his mind - that in fact it belonged there and that the ez- ternal appearances were but .the radiation (as it were) of an inner spiritual quality. i8 WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND You found that his speech and thoughts were, if possible, cleaner, purer^ freer from taint or stain than were even his body or his linen. Further you noticed that, over and above, the man was sin^larly free from faults and blemishes that are almost if not quite universal. For instance, I never knew HThitman to speak a word in depreciation of any person, except (and this was only occasional} himself. I never knew him to find fault with the weather, with any of his surroundings, or with anything that might happen, such as "bad luck", sickness, or ill treatment by others. I never knew him to utter WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND a harsh word about or to any one. Very soon after I first knenr him I noticed this peculiarity In his every day life and for a long time I used to think: What splendid self control! He will not allow himself to express what he thinks! For It must be remembered he was bein^ constantly attacked, slandered and vil- ified and it seemed impossible that he should not feel the usual resentment be- longing to such circumstances. After a time (seeing no sign of the feeling sup- posed) I began to doubt whether it was there, and still later I saw (or thought I saw) that it, in fact» had no existence. So with money and the usual euixieties and petty annoyances of life - to him they 60 WALT WHITMAN. A 8 MAN, POET AND FRIEND did not exist or at least they did not occupy his mind, and his face showed this. To the last it had no lines of care or worry - he lived in an upper spiritual stratum - above all mean thoughts, sordid feeling, earthly har- assments. The fact is, HJhitman resembled hardly at all ordinary men, he lived in a different world and was governed by entirely different thoughts, feelings and consldex»ations. What these were I shall not attempt to state here - neither could I state them fully however much I mi^t endeavour to do so. A study of his books and of his life will reveal them in part to the student who is (mentally) near, enough .to him to enter WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND Pl more or less Into his ideas and emotions. The sceptic, the flaneur, the money grubber, the man of low spirituality, of dull imagination will never know anything of him, and will now and always miscon- ceive him and misconstrue his utterances. The charm of HVhitman's presence cannot be conceived by those who have had no experience of it. This charm resided partly in such elements as those mentiCQecl above; but still more in his manner iMiich was courteous, sympathetic and attractive in a very hi^ degree. It would be cor- rect (using the term In its hi^^est and noblest sense) to speak of him as trans- cendently a gentleman, were it not that the term has been so degraded Ijy 111 use se WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND that it has become almost impossible to associate it with such a personality as his. I have met many men in several countries - men of deservedly world wide reputation* such as Tennyson - men of great spiritual force, such as Browning, men of the tenderest heart and most lov- able personality, such as Ed. Carpenter, magnificent and magnetic orators, such as Henry Ward Beecher- But I have never met another such man as Dlhitman and I do not believe there walks the grassy floor of the earth to-day another man so god- like and at the same time so human as the author of Leaves of Grass. WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 6S JOHN BURROUGHS Si WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND "John's letter appeals to me because of its un- demonstrative personal affection: that first of all: then because of its uncompromising red-blooded espousal of the book — of my code: I respond to John: I feel the eminent kindliness, love, of his declaration. John never slushes, but is always on the spot." "With Walt Whitman in Camden," Vol. Ill, p. S61. WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND SB ^^i^H\^, /^ '^^ 'Z^^^^ 'i^^ ^^2^ ^I'^'lyt.^^A^^iSt^C^ ^ U^i^^ ^ fHU*<^ 66 WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND ^tau^ ^Pu.i.i^^ /fx^ ^^lAt^^^ WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 67 ^^^ .^k-^ ^ <^ ^^4.1^ ji^H^ TM^^ *^-^u^c^u^ ^>^ t.^».* WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 107 108 WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND III WALT WEITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 109 IV WALT WHITMAH'S LBCf URB. .ASSOCIATION BALL, Cor. Chestnut and Fifteenth, Phila- delphia, Evening of April mh, 1880. (The Utb Annl- Terwry of the ABtsninatioo). • 11 « BO Cent Ticket. iWMKTAUl* * iMaaAB. raa. CAJaoui. a. ». i ! WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 111 JOHN HAY lis WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND "Here's a letter from John Hay to me, written long ago — twelve years ago. I laid it aside for you. It illustrates the friendly basis upon which our ac- quaintance rests. When Hay was with Lincoln I used to see a great deal of him. He has been loyal — Aa« always watched my work, has inevitably appeared at the right time with his applause." "With Walt Whitman in Camden," Vol. I, p. 69. WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND US WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND 116 WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND 117 WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND 119 ELBERT HUBBARD _L.. ISO WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND "Not to chisel ornaments. But to chisel with free stroke the heads and limhs of 'plenteous supreme Gods, thai the States may realize them walking and talking." "Birds of Passage." WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND ISl m WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND ^2:a*JL (^2^i>\ ^-<^ WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND ISS JOHN NEWTON JOHNSON IH WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND "Among the visitors that summer was a remarkable man, who came all the way from Georgia — a sort of philosopher-farmer, Whitman described him. His name was Johnson. . . . He made his visits, however, stayed two or three weeks, even longer than he intended to do, and went home consoled and happy." "My Summer with Walt Whitman, 1887," by Sidney H. Morse, "In re Walt Whitman," p. 376. WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND 125 :^^ -t^-^tr^*^ ^4.*V2aI<^ ry^-^-^^^aX 1S6 WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND .^tAe^-e.^/2:^ ^ ^^e^i/^^ ^2„vxV^2^ ^^•^;^,,^ WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 1S7 "c^«--^ /^^ '^'^^ ^"^^^ '^' '' y^ *ex..W.^ ^Z:^^^ c^/^M 'J^U.^ut^ .£.eA.^^*-«>r oltJ^s^off^ ytxUc€'*^ ■^ttCt^^ko^^ i2.t>e^ ^^t^v.^ a>^^**^ .^tsfc^Ze,. ^ CT^"" gj^ ...>- ^>*^ ^^^A' ;^^ A^ /i-^X^ «e^ M^u^A^i^ P^^^O^ ^U^trzJ^ «5V Try f il c ^ o«. o ^»m2c 4Art44y^ ^lAt».>u^^ e-t'C^ «r'*|Jf » t/**^-*-* ^ O ^t,^^. WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 1S9 <^t«^^ *»*'^rr-<^ .^t4j-a.^^ ^^«-c«e/ — 130 WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND ,^€<-«^a^ ^CiA-^^xj^ J^^Cff^ '7'»*.e*-*>-. 1^ /^^ ^x^l^^ ^eMr>t^ >t«/^'« ^^ 1U> ^ ^ O^ (H^ Z^ AA:t^^ ^^ WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND ISl DR. J. JOHNSTON ISS WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND "I see — Rossetti speaks of the Doctor's American reports. Who can doubt those reports, Horace? Even those who doubt me, doubt the ' Leaves,' ought to see how superbly the Doctor handled his material — or let it handle itself." " In re Walt Whitman," p. 306. W ALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND ISS l^^-. '^Jt.^^^.^Tx^uijl Ca—^^rtA^-r ^Je-'-^C-e^t/ ^ /^^LS^>o<^/o/ tJsL^ uro-^ C^»->€X-V-W V* ^ 6 II Q -l/"' ' ^u> WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 1S6 WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND 137 ALMA CALDER JOHNSTON 138 WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND "Alma, the present Mrs. Johnston, is a wonderful woman: she is a convincing woman: when I look at her I think now I know what womanhood means when it comes to its own." " With Walt Whitman in Camden," Vol. II, p. i2S. WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 139 ^ Ux ^-/>^U^^' i~ "^t.^'-U^ .Ou-^^^ 4...U:: no WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND %^ <^yU..v^ ^^?*->*t--> ^U«.c*^ 'C^ W ALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND HI ,^,.4^,,^ Z»>t_« >l.*l-» <3L>t^»*«-*» ^i-«^ UJ-r,UMA.jtL. WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND ^C-c d-e».-i^ " iio ^2-2— ^^*±Sy^. ^^^2*f-T ^ WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND US ^t-^***-^, ^Cor/,^t_^ 6- /XoLf^iZ. ^U^iAXt^ ^U^ J J Ui w ALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND F R I E N D\ ^ A Quo -/Xv. S^ip-i,- 'r^ 0- (uJ:tL>^^jiuiS iy^ WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND US ^ 'i*-^ c,f - « — » ^u.*.^ •^<.^i'f«fc * ,ii«i««i««'"—< i.-fc -" ^Qtlc/ '2/t-«^'~ ^4..cc>-e.x c*/^-;*-^ t^ yu^^A^jLfl^ lie WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIENJ) ALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND wr J. H. JOHNSTON U8 WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND "Came on from West Philadelphia, June 13th, in the two P. M. train to Jersey City, and so across and to my friends Mr. and Mrs. J. H. J., and their large house, large family {and large hearts), amid which I feel at home, at peace — away up on Fifth Avenue, near Eighty-sixth Street, quiet, breezy, overlooking the dense woody fringe of the park — plenty of space and sky, birds chirping, and air comparatively fresh and odorless." "Leaving the hospitable, homelike quarters of my valued friends, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Johnston — took the four P. M. boat, bound up the Hudson, one hundred miles or so." "Specimen Days," Complete Prose, pp. 113 and 129. WALT WE I THAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND US) ^ o<^»vt^^ ^,,,g^,jfe «jjg^^^a^ a**y yu^;:;^ ^^ •«/Wrw». iJCtt-.^ Zj; /vt-^x.^^ /)vM- I'^V •*''4««H' m WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND w>V««« ^f*^T «-*«<. *ti-Ce<. «k-; «V*'*c»*ZX'*-i«t <-«^. • '•»<• ^"vvt-Mpad 4« ^^^-t-^ A-iltruot '^ydju^cd.i^ V>»'dnn**f WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND 161 /•'-Aa.AXjf, jbt-cnfUi^ h/Sjlt^ ^t>>^U. ^l^^'-i-cyC 2^^«-5^ , /^ coo 5l*y flj..^,:,^ 21^ 16S WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND ^ '^ff^^-lL 3./^ f^/f ^i*^A,'e*t-uc^ Cfc-L* c^t-enryr- /C*,ijuuJ Pe^^C4^ WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND IBS ^.:;r{COt^*^ c*^<'' <^t^ /^'u ^ r»a*' '/.f >' WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND 165 ^>«i^ h-e^iz^^^ n^ jt^^ u-^ -^^.-.^ 156 WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND c>H^ "f- /ftU-*^ w^zi^t^ ^Ucit^ xctczZf *^ /^^.o^ ^-6 5i*w _- ■a* 168 WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND Wft^ >4i«r '€c<€% ^^"^ '^'i'-cK. <>^Aee^ Lvuj(JjLcJL eU.xd.A.Uxcl^ f^iA^^^^AMMJ^ WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 0-irt_ot* «7^**^*'/ '*«''<<1*u£aa/»:.^o n^-dar^i^rj..^ . . -^^-U.*-^ WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 163 '*'****-A Ct> »a-t) ^^eArf< \£cA..%>%^, /Ve c«uv«^ «X«^? JLiMA^ /d^c^ucCe' ^j^***^ ^Ci-^>.M>^ >C-6Xa^ ietuZr' WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 166 166 WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 167 ou lZi>4--^^-tJu£ZZ\4^ ^^^"^-^A A**«^ « iU^A-tflUu, ' Vl2*^ /try «-^ «MJZa «n*-fcu. 172 WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND WALT WHITMAN. AS M A N^ POET AND FRIEND 17S (U^-CilX^ ^A^Mv, ■•^sOu.»/Nt -V^C*!—^ OJ 4^'1-l-C-t/.4-M %ta^ ^ 4fUU^ ' o^^ ^ ^ X^^^^2^t*^^^X 17Jt WALT WniTM AN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 175 WILLIAM SLOANE KENNEDY 176 WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND "As I see more of Shane I am impressed with his strong, remarkable, moral nature — his moral, in- tellectual nature, I may call it: and when I speak of his moral nature I don't mean morals, but that highest something which makes life steadfast and ample. Of all things in Kennedy that moral entity appeals to me most surely — is most convincing: his honesty, his love of truih: perhaps honesty alone would say it of honesty with all it implies: the fellow who at the last is found not to deflect from the truth — from thinking truth, uttering truth, being truthful." "With Walt Whitman in Camden,'' Vol. Ill, p. SOI. WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 177 178 WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND ^7— ^^-z-^c-tS-A.*^ /A- occoy^ ^fi/sM 'y? WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND 179 WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 181 HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE 18Z WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND "No labor-saving machine. Nor discovery have I made. Nor will I be able to leave behind me any wealthy bequest to found a hospital or library. Nor reminiscence of any deed of courage for America, Nor literary success nor intellect, nor book for the book-shelf, But a few carols vibrating through the air I leave. For comrades and lovers." " Calamus." WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND 18S / f a^^ ^. -k yyy^ '^ ^^^"^^ 18i WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND A^» fJlAAK^ / /^V - K^ 1^ "^^ tn/^JJ LtM. « Ua^v^^ " I^L f^ ^fyUi 1*-uA, ^^ ^K */)< A AxA/v•^.<>v I»UU_ "^ Ql' * <^^ ^^UjUaa^ J-K' '''^ /ICAaAjiKt) OUa,*/ 'Ut^uu* ^ -^ L<1 Ln. 'ir WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 185 1 1 ! 1 I i WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 187 DAV ID McKA Y 18S WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND "Horace, I want to say to you that I rely upon you when the occasion arises to bear testimony to Dave McKay's fair dealing and general good-will as toward me. . . . I have real admiration for Dave — he has a sort of Napoleonic directness of purpose — has im- mense energy — has made himself very strong by self- discipline." " With Walt Whitman in Camden," Vol.. I. p. iSi. L..,.i .J WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 189 /. //^ WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND 191 LAURENS MAYNARD 192 WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND ' I vnll establish . . . in every city of these States . . . Without edifices or rules or trustees or any argument, The institution of the dear love of comrades." "Calamus." WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 193 *^ COV^^^ '^CL^^ O^^i^UMOi /ij ^ cY^ c^^-- ^^- ^-^^^=^ 6jf.^4jz^ ;S^-i^^ ^-..^^^/CS, <=^:T IH WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND ^U4-tr\^ /MT^^- e*-<^^ ^ - — - J A-C- iUXi ejtj ^ KtS-V^ /^£uu^ TAm.^ t-^_„„ oj_tJ £*. ^& -£^<-JijtK^ WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 196 OuTHCj^/L^c As 'yujt.^ (fci^ /r 196 WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND /<^. /#< //^. WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND 197 JOAQUIN MILLER 198 WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND "Miller is big, wholesome, does things in his ovm way, has lived in the open, stands alone — is a real critter. I rate him way up." " With Walt Whitman in Camden," Vol. III. p. S35. WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 199 JJ-^r-y 6.- soo WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND ^U-*,^^^_--^*-^ A. «■ «■ « -^ "^5" WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND Wl BLISS PERRY SOS WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND ' When I read the book, the biography famous. And is this then {said I) what the author calls a man's life? And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life? {As if any man really knew aught of my life. Why, even I myself, I often think know little or nothing of my real life. Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and in- directions I seek for my own use to trace out here.) " " Inscriptions." WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 203 /7fc> A^^.^^-^-^ZCcA.^^iu^ try >it-; WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND a-^^ — ?4- ^t-<*-Cii>v«_^ Ct-f^ '/yC^ 3oc_ ^^^*«>i^6^ ^ -^■' 6e^irr-^ ^0^ ^j tU\yt^ WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND SOS ISAAC HULL PLATT S06 WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND "Had I the choice to tally greatest bards. To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will. Homer with all his wars and warriors — Hector, Achilles, Ajax, Or Skakspere's woe-entangled Hamlet, Lear, Othello — Tennyson's fair ladies. Metre or wit the best, or choice conceit to wield in per- fect rhyme, delight of singers; These, these, sea, all these I'd gladly barter, ?.■ Would you the undulation of one wave, its trick to me transfer. Or breathe one breath of yours upon my verse. And leave its odor there." "Sands at Seventy." WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND S07 I ' MS WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND ^^tu««^ A»^ JUm*^ «r ^t^u*^ «c***x-ay i*«4, "IT Mia/JU^uu Miii(/jl^>M' ^ or h^l^t'Mfy* UnX£ lUfCk. itrluJiz, UrwL /Uot '^^- ^ •liJixfUlAM C/uXU>« o1 -"iu^ lA^v^ do UrVU/ Jt/liVliUi~ SS6 WALT W BIT MAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND Va/viA^ J^C^ JU^/tito *1 ^lao4o OL^ /i*i-Ou^ {/I :J^v.wC. ^..vvM.^ /olT/^/r WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND m EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN SS8 WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND "Stedman in his person is full of that essence which you demand: he is emotional, impulsive, en- thusiastic, to the core: the whale man of him honest, generous, true." " With Walt Whitman in Camden." Vol. III. p. 500. WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND SS9 v^ WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND SSI HORACE TRAUBEL WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND SSi WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND ^h—-*- Q—^a — -—^ L^^-^ -c— .«.>i /■I 7^ 7 ^L*-^ '=^'**-2^ .c.-«<-^ ^;><^^^ V WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND S36 a- WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND >i_^. Aa^<^L*-^ G_-^oa-<-jt_s t^'Cc^ WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND 237 S38 WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND /X.^^^.^ zift-^:^ A^iz^ut.--. — a^ ^;>-y>^ ^p-i^,^.,^ c / i 'i.^ CO — »*-t--«^ W ALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND C^iUL^ ^i«-A-r 'X-**-^?^ -/X^ Uo WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND P^^/ 9m>v^ ^g2g-a .^'^ WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND OSCAR LOVELL TRIGGS WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND 'I announce adhesiveness, I say it shall be limitless, unhosen'd, I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for." "Songs of Parting." WiALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND THE QUADRAMGLE CLUB L~ ^ UL-—y (M-^^ ■yv'n^ ") tA*.,*^^^^ ^'^■<^o*^l SU WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND U6 A. E. TRIMBLE W. H. TRIMBLE I Si6 WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND 'My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determina- tion around the whole earth, I have look'd for equals and lovers and found them ready for me in all lands, I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them." "Salut au Monde." WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND Si7 OsrvC^ vAT N.Anx/3 \AK/dVs> Qj^C/ool/C wo VV/OLvWvnA ^^ evwCMTCft-' cO «4« WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND vr\rv\J^VOv\i Ov>J cTCw '^-WO-^O WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND Si9 ^i^Cwvn^OwCAw'^ OsyvNwOO ok Q^%3-0"j 350 I WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND O^ '^ Vv>aX>OUXXXa^. \ . W^/^> V,^ /W ?> WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND esi I ! JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE I ! WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND "The way Trowbridge stuck by me through thick and thin was beautiful to behold. He had objections to me always: has objections to-day: but he accepted me on general principles and has never, so far as I know, revised his original declaration in my favor." " With Walt Whitman in Camden," Vol. Ill, p. 506. WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND SBS it^rcy ^^^^ ^/..V /^A.^'^^n WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND SB5 CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER S66 WALT WHITMAN. AS MAN, POET AND FRIEND "Whitman was curious to hear what I could tell him about the poet symposium now at last out. ... 7 remarked: ' There is no mention of you.' He smilingly replied: ' I am ruled out by the terms of the question if nothing else.' . . . Showed no feeling whatever. But said: 'It appears thoroughly unprofitable to enter such a discussion: if Charles Dudley Warner calls it "idle speculation," I agree with him.' " "With Walt Whitman in Camden," Vol. Ill, p. 167. WALT WHITMAN, AS MAN. POET AND FRIEND 257 /il^ JS^ ^ C/^'^ J fl-^ *U^^ U^-.^.^ AX.,_., ^ ^ -^ ^^ v^-^^ .i2y<^ ^ "-^^^^-^ ^ Zi A^...,,^ — < *x.^— ^>^. 7- "^"7 i I