Feinberg/Whitman
Notes and Notebooks
Notes -- Misc
1872 & 1875
Joaquin Miller (DCN 40)
Box 40 Folder 63

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1872, 1875 Notes on Joaquin Miller.
A.MS. (4p. 20 x 13 and 11 x 8 cm.)
The first meetings between Walt Whitman and Miller on July 19th and 21st, 
1872, resulted in the following biographical note: "He is an ardent, pensive, 
gentle person - decidedly morbid and sensitive - (made a very favorable
impression on me)-" Walt Whitman tells of "Joaquim Miller's story of his
first coming to N.Y." and "His description of the Yosemite." Another note
refers to a meeting "evening Aug. 19 '75". Walt Whitman tells of a conversation
on various literary subjects and expresses his pleasure at being invited
by Miller "to come & stay at a cottage he hires on the Hudson this summer."
{40}

Nankin Mich
Aug 17
Walt Whitman
1 Stevens St Cor West
Camden
N Jersey

Joaquin Miller

even'g Aug, 19 '75 - he found
one at Ferry Phil. - we took
supper in rest't - then
sat an  hour in sitting room
Bingham's hotel - he talked
freely about his literary
doings - his new Vol. of
poems "The ship of the Desert" - his new novel - 
"the Pink Countess" - 
- prices - Tennyson - 
the dulness in literary
market - he talked well
- was very kind - wanted 
me to come & stay at a 
cottage he hires on the
Hudson this summer - 
He has been to Long Branch
- seen quite a good deal of
Grant - likes him -

Interviews with Joaquin
Miller - New York

July 19 - 1872
" 21 A "
(He saw me on the 5th
ave stage July 18th and
got up and spoke to
me)

He is an ardent,
pensive, gentle
person - decidedly
[?] and sensitive
-  (made a very favor
able impresion)
on me

Cure of Roberts Brothers
Joaquin Miller's story of
his first [?] to N.Y.
on his way to Europe
- lonesome, sick,
poor - his endeavors
to see [?]
and [?]

went [?] Anchor Line
"Eurpoe"

His life there in
London get[?] out [?]
8[?] a week 

His description of the 
Yosemite - not only the 
[grandeur] sublimity of scenery in
[its] towering heights, precipices &c.
- but in its display of
softer features & of wonderful light water,
rainbows (the often circular
rainbows,) in the multitudes
of birds, many of them
singing birds - all making
up a [peculiar] miracle of grandeur
and beauty, unequalled of
its kind probably on earth.
- The grandeur of Yosemite
is crowded into a comparatively
narrow area - the
mountains seem to extend as
high to the heavens as they [do]
do when the earth

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