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Year

1856

Text

Letter from Walt Whitman to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Brooklyn, August, 1856.
With Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Oregon—with the states around the Mexican sea—with cheerfully welcomed immigrants from Europe, Asia, Africa—with Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island—with all varied interests, facts, beliefs, parties, genesis—there is being fused a determined character, fit for the broadest use for the freewomen and freemen of Tho States, accomplished and to be accomplished, without any exception whatever—each indeed free, each idiomatic, as becomes live states and men, but each adhering to one enclosing general form of politics, manners, talk, personal style, as the plenteous varieties of the race adhere to one physical form.

Mentioned People (2)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo  (Boston 1803-1882 Concord, Mass.) : Philosoph, Unitarier, Schriftsteller

Whitman, Walt  (Long Island, New York 1819-1892 Camden, N.J.) : Dichter, Schriftsteller, Journalist

Subjects

Literature : Occident : United States of America

Documents (1)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 2013 Whitman Archive.
http://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1856/poems/33.
http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/disciples/traubel/WWWiC/1/med.00001.40.html.
http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/disciples/traubel/WWWiC/2/whole.html
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Organisation / WhiW77