Whitman Interviews and Reminiscences is edited by Brett Barney and devoted to the known written accounts of meetings with the poet. At present, these comprise 91 articles written for newspapers and other periodicals, 18 pieces published in monographs, and an unpublished diary entry. The earliest of these accounts was written in 1866, the last in 1919. Some of this material has been reprinted in scattered journals and collections, but it has never before been gathered and edited as a body. Those interested in such accounts should also be aware of Matt Cohen's digitization of what is by far the longest Whitman "interview," the nine-volume With Walt Whitman in Camden. That work is available here.

Barney, Brett. "Meetings with Walt Whitman: Interviews and Reminiscences."

Interviews and Reminiscences

• Moncure D. Conway, "Walt Whitman," The Fortnightly Review 15 October 1866
• George Alfred Townsend, "Letter From George Alfred Townsend," Cleveland Leader 23 September 1868
• Anonymous, "Whitman & Alboni," Poughkeepsie Daily News [between 1871 and 1883]
• J[ames] M[atlack] S[covel], "Walt Whitman: His Life, His Poetry, Himself," The Springfield Republican 23 July 1875
• Olive Harper, "Walt Whitman in Private Life," Daily Graphic 6 November 1875
• [Walt Whitman], "Walt Whitman at the Poe Funeral," Evening Star [Washington, D. C.] 18 November 1875
• Moncure D. Conway, "A Visit to Walt Whitman," The Academy 27 November 1875
• Anonymous, "[We struck a paragraph]," The Danbury News [1876]
• Anonymous, "Walt Whitman: A Glimpse at a Poet in His Lair," The Times [Philadelphia] 24 February 1876
• [Frank Sanborn], "Walt Whitman: A Visit to the Good Gray Poet," The Springfield Republican 19 April 1876
• J. B. S., "Walt Whitman: The Athletic Bard Paralyzed and in a Rocking Chair," The World [New York] 21 May 1876
• [James Matlack Scovel?], "Walt Whitman: A Symposium in a Sick Room," Camden Daily Post 18 November 1876
• Jennie June, "Our New York Letter," Baltimore American 17 March 1877
• [Walt Whitman], "Walt Whitman," Camden Daily Post 29 March 1877
• Anonymous, "Walt Whitman: The Grizzled Poet Talks about Mr. Childs in His Pleasant, Quaint Way," The Times [Philadelphia] 5 January 1879
• Anonymous, "Two Visitors," The Missouri Republican 13 September 1879
• Anonymous, "Walt Whitman, the Poet," St Louis Globe-Democrat 13 September 1879
• [Walt Whitman], "Walt Whitman's Ipmressions of Denver and the West," Denver Tribune 21 September 1879
• Anonymous, "Walt Whitman: His Ideas About the Future of American Literature," St. Louis Post-Dispatch 17 October 1879
• Anonymous, "A Poet's Western Visit," Evening Star [Washington, D. C.] 15 November 1879
• Anonymous, "Walt Whitman Home Again," Camden Daily Post 7 January 1880
• Anonymous, "In the Matter of Ages," The Danbury News 28 January 1880
• [Issac R. Pennypacker], "Walt Whitman: The Poet Chats on the Haps and Mishaps of Life," The Philadalehpia Press 3 March 1880
• [J. L. Payne], "Walt. Whitman: Interview with the Author of 'Leaves of Grass'," The Daily Free Press [London, Ontario] 5 June 1880
• Anonymous, "Walt Whitman: A Chat With the 'Good Gray Poet'," London Advertiser 5 June 1880
• Anonymous, "Walt Whitman in Huntington," The Long Islander 5 August 1881
• Anonymous, "Personal: Whitman," Brooklyn Daily Eagle 16 August 1881
• Anonymous, "'The Good Gray Poet'," Daily Globe [Boston] 24 August 1881
• Anonymous, "A Poet's Supper to his Printers and Proof-Readers," Boston Daily Advertiser 17 October 1881
• Anonymous, "Walt Whitman's Work," The Philadelphia Press 6 November 1881
• Anonymous, "Personal," Boston Transcript 11 November 1881
• Jay Charlton, "Bohemians in America," The Danbury News (about 1882)
• Anonymous, "Wilde and Whitman," The Philadelphia Press 19 January 1882
• Anonymous, "Mr. Oscar Wilde," Evening Star [Washington, D. C.] 21 January 1882
• Anonymous, "'Leaves of Grass': An Interview with the Author at Camden, N. J.," Daily Globe [Boston] 22 May 1882
• Anonymous, "A Poet on Politics," The Philadelphia Press 30 October 1884
• Anonymous, "Politics from a Poet," The News [Camden?] (about 31 December 1884)
• Edmund Gosse, "Sat. Jan. 3" (diary entry)
• Anonymous, "Whitman as a Consul," The North American 20 March 1885
• Anonymous, "Walt Whitman: Has Reached the Age of 63—Discourses of Hugo, Tennyson and Himself," The World [New York] 5 June 1885
• James Scovel, "Walt Whitman: The Author of 'Leaves of Grass' at Home," The Springfield Republican 16 June 1885
• Anonymous, Marietta Register 19 June 1885
• William H. Ballou, "Walt Whitman," The Leader and Herald [Cleveland] 28 June 1885
• William H. Ballou, "Walt Whitman and the Tennyson Visit," Camden Post 3 July 1885
• Anonymous, "Whitman on Grant," The Philadelphia Press 26 July 1885
• Anonymous, "The Poet's Livery," The Dispatch [Pittsburg] 15 September 1885
• Anonymous, "Men and Things," The Philadelphia Press 21 October 1885
• H. R. Haweis, "A Visit to Walt Whitman," The Pall Mall Gazette 13 January 1886
• George Johnston, "Walt Whitman at Home," Cecil Democrat 23 January 1886
• W. H. B., "Talks with Noted Men," Chicago Daily Tribune 12 June 1886
• [Frank Sanborn?], "A Visit to Walt Whitman," Brooklyn Daily Eagle 11 July 1886
• Anonymous, "Walt Whitman's Needs," The Evening Post [New York] 16 December 1886
• Anonymous, "Walt Whitman's Purse," The New-York Times 17 December 1886
• Herbert Harlakenden Gilchrist, from chapter 19 of Anne Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings (1887)
• Anonymous, "Walt Whitman's Pension," The Philadelphia Press 21 January 1887
• Anonymous, "An Old Poet's Reception," The Sun [New York] 15 April 1887
• Anonymous, "Walt Whitman: Visit to the Good Gray Poet at His Place of Abode," The Weekly Detroit Free Press 23 April 1887
• Anonymous, "Whitman Will Not Answer," The New-York Times 11 August 1887
• Cyrus Field Willard, "A Chat with the Good Gray Poet," American Magazine December 1887
• Cessator, "Walt Whitman's Advice to the State Scholars," The Signal February 1888
• Anonymous, New York Herald 18 April 1888
• Anonymous, "Whitman's November," Morning Oregonian 27 August 1888
• Anonymous, "Every Day Talk: Walt Whitman's Story of the Purpose of His Writings—Odds and Ends," The Press [New York] 7 September 1888
• Anonymous, "Walt Whitman's Words," New York Herald 23 September 1888
• William Summers, "A Visit to Walt Whitman," The Pall Mall Gazette 18 October 1888
• Anonymous, "Two Minutes with Walt Whitman," Rocky Mountain News 12 February 1889
• C. Sadakichi Hartmann, "Walt Whitman: Notes of a Conversation with the Good Gray Poet by a German Poet and Traveller," New York Herald 14 April 1889
• Richard Hinton, "Walt Whitman at Home," The World [New York] 14 April 1889
• Anonymous, "Whitman's Natal Day," The North American 1 June 1889
• Anonymous, "Arnold and Whitman," The Times [Philadelphia] 15 September 1889
• Anonymous, "Arnold and Whitman," The Daily Picayune 26 September 1889
• J. W. K., "He Is Ignored at Home" Chicago Daily Tribune 13 October 1889
• Anonymous, "Walt Whitman Cheerful," The New-York Times 26 January 1890
• Anonymous, "Walt Whitman Ill," The New-York Times 6 April 1890
• Fred C. Dayton, "Walt Whitman's Home," The North American 29 April 1890
• Foster Coates and Homer Fort, "Walt Whitman at Home," Buffalo Express 25 May 1890
• Anonymous, "Walt Whitman on Himself," The New-York Times 8 June 1890
• Anonymous, "A Talk with Whitman," The Times [Philadelphia] 25 August 1890
• Anonymous, "Beloved Walt Whitman," The World [New York] 26 October 1890
• Edwin Arnold, Seas and Lands: "Men and Cities" (1891)
• J. Alfred Stoddart, "A Talk with Walt Whitman," Truth 19 March 1891
• Alma Calder Johnston, "Personal Memories of Walt Whitman," Bookman November 1891
• Anonymous, "Sir Edwin Arnold and Whitman," The Springfield Republican 7 November 1891
• Anonymous, "Day with Walt Whitman," The World [New York] 8 November 1891
• [Jeannette Gilder], "The Lounger," The Critic 29 November 1891
• William Smith, from chapter four of A Yorkshireman's Trip to the United States and Canada (1892)
• Walt Whitman, Autobiographia: "Starting Newspapers (Another Account)" (1892)
• Anonymous, Ideals of Life: "Recent Interviews with the Poet" (1892)
• John Russell Young, "Men and Memories," The Evening Star [Philadelphia] 16 January 1892
• Anonymous, "The Good Grey Poet," The Christian Leader 4 February 1892
• Anonymous, "Walt Whitman's Dying Hours," The Evening Telegram [New York] 13 February 1892
• Anonymous, "Reminiscences of Whitman," The Daily Inter Ocean 11 April 1892
• William H. Garrison, "Walt Whitman," Lippincott's Magazine May 1892
• Anonymous, "An Impression of Walt Whitman," Atlantic Monthly June 1892
• Sylvester Baxter, "Walt Whitman in Boston," New England Magazine August 1892
• Horace L. Traubel, In RE Walt Whitman: "Round Table with Walt Whitman" (1893)
• Horace L. Traubel, In RE Walt Whitman: "Walt Whitman at Date" (1893)
• Sadakichi Hartmann, Conversations with Walt Whitman: "My First Visit" (1895)
• Theodore F. Wolfe, Literary Shrines: "A Day with the Good Gray Poet" (1895)
• William Sloane Kennedy, Reminiscences of Walt Whitman: "Memories, Letters, Etc.," (1896)
• Grace Gilchrist, "Chats with Walt Whitman," Temple Bar February 1898
• Thomas Proctor, "Some Personal Recollections and Impressions of Walt Whitman," The Journal of Hygiene and Herald of Health February 1898
• Leon Mead, "Walt Whitman," The Conservator August 1900
• John Townsend Trowbridge, "Reminiscences of Walt Whitman," Atlantic Monthly February 1902
• Edward Carpenter, Days with Walt Whitman: "A Visit to Walt Whitman In 1877" (1906)
• Edward Carpenter, Days with Walt Whitman: "Walt Whitman in 1884" (1906)
• Ellen M. Calder, "Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman," Atlantic Monthly June 1907
• Elizabeth Leavitt Keller, "Walt Whitman: The Last Phase," Putnam's Magazine June 1909
• William Hawley Smith, "A Visit to Walt Whitman," The Conservator November 1909
• John Johnston, Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891: "In Camden" (1917)
• John Johnston, Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891: "Visit to Brooklyn" (1917)
• John Johnston, Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891: "Visit to West Hills" (1917)
• J. W. Wallace, Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891: "Walt Whitman's Friends in Lancashire" (1917)
• J. W. Wallace, Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891: "First Visit to Camden, September 8th and 9th" (1917)
• J. W. Wallace, Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891: "In Camden, October 15th to 24th" (1917)
• J. W. Wallace, Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891: "In Camden, October 27th to November 2nd" (1917)
• J. W. Wallace, Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891: "General Impressions of Whitman's Personality" (1917)
• William Roscoe Thayer, "Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman" Scribner's Magazine June 1919
• Anonymous, "[party, a night of]" (place and date of publication unknown)

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