Feinberg/Whitman Box 13 Folder 33 General Correspondence North American Review May 1882 - Dec 1890431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Evening May 12 '82 Dear Sir Yours of yesterday rec'd - I could send the MS of "Carlyle from an American Point of View" by the 20th or 21st a week from now - It would make about nine or ten pages - What I said about its being "a candidate for the place of leading paper" +etc was meant to be left entirely to the editorial exigencies & judgment - no condition at all - Walt WhitmanTHE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, Editorial Department. New York, Nov. 16 1885 Dear Sir: Your manuscript entitled ¨Abraham Lincoln¨ has been received. [You will be notified, at the] earliest [opportunity, whether it is available or the North American Review] It has not yet been read. [Should your paper be returned it is proper to state, now, that the refusal of an article does not imply any want of appre- ciation of its intrinsic value. As I am accustomed to invite articles long in advance of their possible publication, the Review is ordinarily supplied with as much material as can be used for several coming numbers. As a general rule, therefore, volunteer contributions, to ensure acceptance, must deal with topics of important and timely interest not previously provided for editorially. Very truly yours, ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE. Walt Whitman, Esq.[*Pens for W. W] [*See notes Oct 5 1890*] October 3 1890. The North American Review, 3 East Fourteenth Street, New York. Dear Sir: Can you write a brief article for the North American Review on Recent aspects of American Literature as you have observed them? It need not be more than 4000 words in length - about ten pages in the Review - and in return for it we should be glad to place at your disposal the sum of Two hundred dollars. Or possibly there is some other subject on whichyou would be more willing to write. 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NUMBER SENT BY REC'D BY CHECK 6 ny ml s o PS Received at 10.35 a 10/ 9 1890 Dated Jamaica Plains Mass 9 To Walt Whitman Can you send your article by Wednesday wire our expense William H. RidingGLADSTONE - INGERSOLL FAITH or AGNOSTICISM? Hugh B. Macculloch, No. 30 East 14th Street, Cor. Union Square, S. W. JUN 28 1888 New York JUN [18?] 1888 Dictated. Dear Sir: Col. Robt. G. Ingersoll will shortly contribute to THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW a brilliant article in defense of his views of Christianity, which were powerfully assailed by the Rt. Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone, in the May number of the Review. The controversy between these two most gifted writers and orators of modern times is chaining the attention of all classes of thinkers, and is recognized as the most stirring and memorable debate of the century. For a limited period the following offer is made by me to new subscribers to THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW: For a yearly subscription at $5.00 the REVIEW will be sent you, postage pre-paid, with a free copy of Mr. Allen Thorndike Rice's valuable "Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln," a remarkable book by thirty-three remarkable men (see enclosed circular). The price of this highly successful book alone has never varied from $4.00. If you desire to follow the course of the Gladstone-Ingersoll controversy in the leading Review of the country, and avail yourself of this exceptional opportunity kindly send me your order on the accompanying card, and oblige, Yours respectfully, Hugh B. MacCullochThe North American Review 3 East Fourteenth Street, New York Dictated. December 16, 1890 Dear Mr. Whitman: We intended to use your article on National Literature in the January number, but unforseen circumstances prevented us. Probably it will go into the February number, and in any event you shall have the proofs you ask for. I am Faithfully yours, William H. Rideing To Walt Whitman, Esq.UNITED STATES POSTAL CARD ONE CENT NOTHING BUT THE ADDRESS TO BE ON THIS SIDE. Hugh B. Macculloch, No. 30 East 14th Street, Cor. Union Square, S. W., New YorkSir: Replying to your letter, you can place my name on your list as Subscriber to THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW for one year, commencing with the 1888, number. The REVIEW is to be delivered to me monthly for one year, at the regular price, $5.00, payable in advance on receipt of a copy of the Lincoln Volume by exspress, C. O. D. Name, Address,Hugh B. Macculloch, 30 East 14th St., Cor. Union Sq., S. W., New York.(FAC-SIMILE.) For a limited period I have contracted to furnish Mr. Hugh B. Macculloch's new subscribers to the North American Review with a free copy of my collection of "Lincoln Reminiscenses". N.Y. May 30. '88. [?]A Unique Passage-at-Arms. GLADSTONE versus INGERSOLL "To be or not to be," that is the question which to-day is agitating the minds alike of skeptic and believer. The belief in future rewards, punishment, or annihilation has for centuries met with countless champions and assailants. But it has been reserved for two of the keenest intellects of modern times-each in his own sphere the ripest product of the two most enlightened nations of Christendom-to discuss these vexed questions, and cross swords with the broad Atlantic between them. For years the eloquence and skill of Colonel Ingersoll have challenged and chained the attention of the public and often unhorsed his opponent. That he might finally meet in open combat a foe worthy of his steel-fearless and armed cap-a-pie with the learning of centuries and the eloquence of a master-has long been the ardent wish of all good Christians. This wish is now fulfilled in an article from the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone, who will do battle for the faith as the critic of Colonel Ingersoll in the May issue of the North American Review. The entrance of this remarkable and most illustrious Statesman and Prince of Debaters into an International controversy of such intense importance and interest marks an Era in the History of Anglo-Saxon Literature and Religious Discussion. NO MAN OR WOMAN WHO DOES NOT SPURN THE GREAT AND GRAVE PROBLEMS OF LIFE AND DEATH SHOULD FAIL TO FOLLOW THE COURSE OF THIS STIRRING AND MEMORABLE DEBATE. COLONEL INGERSOLL WILL REPLY TO MR. GLADSTONE IN THE JUNE ISSUE.VIVD PEN-PICTURES OF THE REAL LINCOLN AS HE LIVED, MOVED, AND TALKED. A Gallery of Historic Portraits. REMINISCENCES OF Abraham Lincoln BY 33 DISTINGUISHED MEN OF HIS TIME AMONG WHOM ARE Gen. ULYSSES S. GRANT Col. ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Congressman GEORGE W. JULIAN Vice-President SCHUYLER COLFAX Minister ELIHU B. WASHBURNE Senator DANIEL W. VOORHEES Governor R. E. FENTON Hon. CHARLES A. DANA Secretary J. P. USHER Minister JOHN A. KASSON Senator GEORGE S. BOUTWELL Gen. JAMES B. FRY Gen. BENJAMIN F. BUTLER Secretary HUGH McCULLOCH FREDERICK DOUGLASS Hon. CHAUNCY M,. DEPEW BEN PERLEY POORE DONN PIATT HENRY WARD BEECHER WALT WHITMAN Congressman WM. D. KELLEY DAVID R. LOCKE (Petroleum V. Nasby) Minister C. M. CLAY LEONARD SWETT COLLECTED AND EDITED BY ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE EDITOR OF THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW Containing a fine Steel Portrait of Lincoln, 18 Portraits of Contributors, and other Illustrations. Beside the six hundred pages of reading matter relating to Abraham Lincoln there is a biographical sketch of each of the contributors. IN ONE VOLUME, OCTAVO, SPLENDIDLY BOUND IN CLOTH-A UNIQUE PRESENT, OR ORNAMENT TO ANY HOUSEHOLD. This highly successful Volume cannot be obtained from the office of The North American Review, or through the Trade. By special arrangement, I am able to offer it free to new subscribers to The North American Review. HUGH B. MACCULLOCH, 30 East 14th St., cor. Union Square, S. W.REMINISCENCES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. SAMPLE ANECDOTE BY ULYSSES S. GRANT. Just after receiving my commission as lieutenant-general, the President called me aside to speak to me privately. After a brief reference to the military situation, he said he thought he could illustrate what he wanted to say by a story, which he related as follows: At one time there was a great war among the animals, and one side had great difficulty in getting a commander who had sufficient confidence in himself. Finally, they found a monkey, by the name of Jocko, who said he thought he could command their army if his tail could be made a little longer. So they got more tail, and spliced it on to his caudal appendage. He looked at it admiringly, and then thought he ought to have a little more still. This was added, and again he called for more. The splicing process was repeated many times, until they had coiled Jocko's tail around the room, filling all the space. Still he called for more tail, and there being no other place to coil it, they began wrapping it around his shoulders. He continued his call for more, and they kept on winding the additional tail about him until its weight broke him down. I saw the point, and rising from my chair, replied: Mr. President, I will not call for more assistance unless I find it impossible to do with what I already have. NOTICES OF THE PRESS. WASHINGTON NATIONAL REPUBLICAN. A supremely interesting volume. Yet the reader will feel at the last, and say, it is too small. With pleasure, with avidity superior to the inspiration which enchanted our progress through the "Arabian Nights" in life's morning, we have now perused this varied and glorious history. Before our eyes the scenes had passed in reality; our ears received the words of the great actors. Daily through the Rebellion time we saw President Lincoln, secretaries Stanton and Seward, and the other civil heroes here mentioned—heroes loftier than those of Mars. They were restored to our sight, "in their habit as they lived," even brought back from their mysterious dwelling place in the "undiscovered country." BOSTON HERALD. It should be read everywhere. It bears on its face the testimony that its information is genuine. BALTIMORE AMERICAN. The most readable book about Lincoln ever published. NEW YORK SUN. The ingathering of such far-scattered and fast-fading memorials was a happy thought upon the part of the editor. CHICAGO TIMES. It makes one think better of mankind to find these lofty qualities appealing so unfailingly to the admiration of so many different varieties of the genus homo. Significance of the fact is in the proof it offers—being thus seen and recognized of all—that they were the prominent traits of his character, to which his intellectual breadth and acute sagacity were but aids and supports. It has not a dull page. YONKERS STATESMAN. It required a group of able men who knew him to portray his complex character. PHILADELPHIA TIMES. The book gives the best connected presentation of the personal qualities of Lincoln that has yet been given to the public, and as such it is an invaluable contribution to history. THE INDEPENDENT. The volume is packed with reminiscences and anecdotes, especially of the great President and his rough, irascible, but honest secretary. N. Y. EVENING POST. The anecdotes of his humanity constantly light up the pages. TOLEDO EVENING BEE. The work is superbly bound, and its typography cannot be excelled. THE CHURCHMAN. In this volume Mr. Lincoln is made to appear in the dark chamber of the past with features lit up to the point of realism by these scores of stories. CINCINNATI TIMES-STAR. The sketches are largely made up of anecdotes and personal impressions, and, taken together, they give a sort of kaleidoscopic view of the martyr President, presenting his traits and peculiarities in a great variety of lights. It is a proof of Mr. Lincoln's commanding greatness that he should so favorably impress men of so widely different temperaments. REMINISCENCES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN NOTICES OF THE PRESS. PHILADELPHIA PRESS. Reminiscences by many men, but gathered, grouped, and vouched for by one responsible man, Allen Thorndike Rice. ATLANTIC MONTHLY. We are quite sincere in saying that Mr. Rice has adopted a kind of Plutarchian method, and has done as much as a modern can to place the figure of Lincoln before us in his originality, to preserve for the future the personal impression he made on many men of diverse training, talents, and habits, and to gather up all that remains of verbal traditions in regard to him. DETROIT FREE PRESS. There have been sketches and biographies almost inumerable of Abraham Lincoln in the twenty years that have elapsed since his tragic death; but there has been nothing quite so satisfactory thus far as the "Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, by Distinguished Men of His Time," edited by Allen Thorndike Rice. MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY. These reminiscences are of such a character as to elicit universal and absorbing attention. CHICAGO INTER-OCEAN. Not a sketch in the volume is unworthy of the place it holds. It would be well if every American boy and girl could read the book: it would only make them better, and wiser, and more patriotic. BROOKLYN UNION. One could not find a more engaging book from which to quote. ELMIRA DAILY GAZETTE AND FREE PRESS. To those interested in the personal history of the late war, and especially to the admirers of Abraham Lincoln, this is a most fascinating book. The reader who opens the book is never ready to lay it aside. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. It deserves a place in the family library as a record of the life of one of the greatest of Americans, who embodied in his career all the possibilities of the Republic. WASHINGTON POST. The great volume of six hundred and fifty pages is full of new stories of Mr. Lincoln, and of little-known facts that will be a mine of wealth to the future historian. N. Y. EVENING TELEGRAM. Seldom has a man's personality had so many recollections; and it is highly curious to remark how persons of such various predilections and various opportunities of judgment were affected by the President's character. Mr. Rice contributes an introduction, which will be regarded as not the least important part of the book. WASHINGTON CHRONICLE. This is a novelty in book-making. Every article is written expressly for the book. ARMY AND NAVY JOURNAL. The sketches are as characteristic of their authors as of their subject. One of the most interesting chapters in the volume is the introduction by the editor. BROOKLYN MAGAZINE. No more important work than these "Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished men of His Time" has been issued for a long time; and, for its historical value as well as its present interest, it will take the front rank among the best contributions to American history. N. Y. CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. It is a gallery of portraits of Lincoln's admirers that we do not think can be equaled, and certainly cannot be excelled. POUGHKEEPSIE EAGLE. The country is indebted to Mr. Rice for this valuable volume. N. Y. TRIBUNE. Here we have views of Mr. Lincoln taken from all sides. N. Y. CHURCH PRESS. It is an interesting volume. These Reminiscences have been written con amore, and therefore display all the freshness and vigor of heartfelt interest. The introduction alone, by the editor; the fac-simile of the first official paper from the State Department at Washington, written by Seward to Charles Francis Adams, Minister to Great Britain, with corrections, emendations, and additions by Mr. Lincoln, are worth far more than the cost of the volume. This work should be in every household and library in the land. It is a well-known spring, from which a great united country may drink in the spirit of patriotism as from a river and which will arouse the love and enthusiasm of this people for the great simple figure and personality which resulted in restoring the union of the States. WASHINGTON CRITIC. In the preparation of this work, the editor and compiler has not only made a valuable contribution to the historical literature of the country, but performed a service in behalf of one of the most illustrious men of the century, for which he will be gratefully remembered by future generations. DANBURY (Conn.) NEWS. The unparalleled collection in the volume of "Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln," from distinguished men of his time, by Allen Thorndike Rice, is like a jewel that requires no elegant setting to help flash its value, but the very title announcement possesses a charm which enchants every American soul. CINCINNATI ARTISAN. Every American citizen should be proud to number it among his most cherished household treasures. LEAVENWORTH TIMES. The volume is filled with articles furnished by the ablest statesmen of this decade. THE CHRISTIAN UNION. A Lincoln story is always in order, and the volume in hand is full of them. It is a great satisfaction to read a collection of such stories, and feel sure that they are genuine. PHILADELPHIA NEWS. What is said of him is in every instance the fruit of personal association and observations. BOSTON JOURNAL. Among other interesting matters is the fac-simile of the letter of instructions to Minister Adams as to the relations of the British Government with the Confederate emissaries. THE CAPITAL. We know of no book which contains a richer tone of entertainment for the admirers of Lincoln. COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. The volume of Reminiscences of Lincoln will naturally lead the reader to expect a large store of Lincoln anecdotes, and he will not be disappointed in the collection which Mr. Rice has made. N. Y. MAIL AND EXPRESS. The variety, interest, and value of these Reminiscences are not to be described except by superlatives. BRIDGEPORT STANDARD. The value of these Reminiscences is very great, and their interest is unbounded. N. Y. OBSERVER. Many of Lincoln's quaint and inimitable stories are here rehearsed for the first time by those who took them from his own lips. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. One of the most valuable contributions to American biography, executed in a novel manner. BROOKLYN TIMES. There is no lack of judgment in the manner in which Mr. Rice has collected and prepared the materials for this notable volume. He has shown a degree of enterprise which has come to be regarded as characteristic of all that he does.NOTICES OF THE PRESS KINGSTON DAILY LEADER. * * * It is a most interesting volume, and no historical collection will be complete without it. BOSTON EVENING TRAVELLER. His contemporaries are rapidly becoming fewer, and it must be recognized as a most entertainable and valuable biographical service that Mr. Allen Thorndike Rice has performed in securing from the most prominent of those now living, and from those who, since making their contributions, have passed away, reminiscences of their associations with this great man in the widely varied relations which they sustained to him. A mere list of the names of the more than thirty contributors to the volume is enough to assure one that it is of supreme value, and that no one of its 736 consecutive pages can be dull or uninteresting. Mr. Rice himself contributes a most valuable paper, which serves as an introduction. * * * It is doubtful if any volume yet published has ever furnished so deep an insight into the character of Abraham Lincoln. * * * The book is one that cannot fail to find a wide reading. Mr. Rice's thought of weaving together these scattered and rapidly fading reminiscences was a most happy one, and it has been most thoroughly and happily carried into execution. BUFFALO EXPRESS. A remarkable book about a remarkable man. Its character is well set forth in its title. As for timeliness, when was every one of Mr. Lincoln's stories untimely? * * * The reminiscences are something more than anecdote, though the salt of Lincoln's humor savors the whole volume. Portraits and biographical sketches of the contributors, together with fac-simile letters and other interesting material, lend further scope and value to this delightful volume. It is an authoritative Lincolniana. UTICA MORNING HERALD. * * * These sketches are a careful study of the high qualities of mind and heart which Lincoln possessed. They are not a mere string of anecdotes, but the genius and nature of the man find in them adequate expression. N. Y. TIMES. The editor, in his introduction, describes Lincoln's humor, his melancholy, his strange mingling of energy and indolence, his generosity, his unconventional character, his frugality, his tenderness, his courage, ad traceable to his ancestry as well as to the strange society which molded the boy and nerved the man to face without fear every danger that beset his path. SARATOGIAN. This work will be found to harbor many things relative to Lincoln never before seen in popular print. BOSTON GLOBE. * * * A volume is formed, where no one may read so lightly that he may not admire and revere the subject as a hero. ROCHESTER (N. Y.) UNION. * * * The volume contains innumerable stories about him, and some very valuable bits of history which Mr. Rice's industry has exhumed. HARRISBURG (Pa.) TELEGRAPH. The book embraces thirty-three sketches, each written from a different standpoint, each of great interest and acceptable in the superlative degree. UNITED PRESBYTERIAN (Pittsburgh). The most valuable collection of American historical and that has ever been made is "Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln," the work of that industrious genius, Allen Thorndike Rice, of The North American Review. TROY BUDGET. * * * The book is one of the few "subscription books" which are worth buying, worth reading, and worth retaining in the library. CHICAGO CURRENT. The editor of the present volume, and the eminent men who have contributed to its valuable pages, have honored themselves in thus honoring him. They have added a tribute due to his name. They lived with him and by him, nearest his heart with its burdens, in that heart in his triumph. They have here given to the living present and those who will come after, sentiments that will more closely unite their affections with his great and gracious memory. It is not a biography, it is not a history of the man or the exciting scenes through which he passed. We have had these, and this is better, being that of which we have not before had. CHICAGO MAIL. Twenty-one years have the people mourned for him. Latterly many books have appeared showing this or that trait of his peculiar character. The last is the best. MISSOURI REPUBLICAN. This splendid volume should have a wide reading. THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, EDITED BY ALLEN THORNDIKE RICE. The leading Periodical of the Country. Fearless, Just, and Abreast of the Times. For 73 years The North American Review has held the foremost place in the periodical literature of the United States. 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