Feinberg/Whitman Literary File Prose "Boston and Whitman" (undated). A.MS.S.draft. Box 35 Folder 37 Autographed Manuscripts by Walt Whitman Walt Whitman autographed manuscript on an article possibly sent to Sylvester Baxter of the Boston Transcript for publication. However, there has been no record of publication found to this date. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman Boston and Walt Whitman. The Bostonians - perhaps to make up for their absurd official set-down on "Leaves of Grass" some years since, have now started- or at any rate have furnished the area of a "Walt Whitman Society" - described in the circular as having for its object to endow the old poet with a weekly pension and to cultivate generally his poetical and patriotic lessons and writings. But Whitman himself certainly looks with apathy on the whole business, as he took the set-down very coolly. He peremptorily declines the pension effort and is willing his poems should take their chances with other candidates for public appreciation. He is personally friendly to Mr. Hartmann, the starter of the Society. Then quite a number of his staunchest and best friends and disciples are in Boston. Boston and Walt Whitman The Bostonians - perhaps to make up for their absurd official set-down on "Leaves of Grass" some years since, have now started - or at any rate have furnished the area of a "Walt Whitman Society" - described in the circular as having for its object to [furnish] endow the old poet with a weekly pension and to cultivate generally his poetical and patriotic lessons and writings. But Whitman himself certainly looks with apathy on the whole business, as he took the set-down very coolly. He peremptorily declines the pension effort and is willing his poems should take their chances with other candidates for public appreciation. He is personally friendly to Mr. Hartmann, the starter of the Society. Then quite a number of his staunchest and best friends and disciples are in Boston. T. M. [image] Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.