[RADICAL LITERATURE] [WALT WHITMAN] TRAUBEL, Horace (ed)
Walt Whitman Fellowship Papers. Broken run of 40 issues from 1894 to 1904.
Philadelphia: [by the Fellowship], 1894. 40 individual issues in original wrappers. Each issue octavo; printed self-wraps; pagination varies from 2 to 24 pages per issue. Occasional marginal chipping, but generally Very Good to Near Fine.
Forty issues of this ephemeral Whitman newsletter, issued under the direction of Whitman's chief disciple and literary executor Horace Traubel (1858-1919). Traubel was a Marxian socialist and a member of the Rose Valley Movement, a utopian community in Southeastern Pennsylvania; he founded the Walt Whitman Fellowship in 1894, inviting onto the board such distinguished Whitmanites as Robert Ingersoll, John Burroughs and Daniel Brinton. In the ensuing years the Fellowship attracted, through Traubel's influence, a wide sampling of the early 20th-century American counter-culture: socialists, anarchists, feminists, free-lovers, and bohemians of every stripe. The Fellowship Papers reflect this wide-ranging bohemianism, and provide an excellent picture of the early "Cult of Walt" which (in some critics' view) appropriated Whitman's writings, supplying interpretations that furthered Traubel's own progressive agenda. A most uncommon publication, rarely encountered in cohesive runs.
Each issue with a separate title and author; a few issues are no more than indices or reports from an annual meeting, but the majority are critical articles on some aspect of Whitman's life or writings, including numerous contributions by Traubel and others by Francis Howard Williams, Laurens Maynard, Charlotte Porter, etc. Representative titles include, "Walt Whitman as Deliverer;" "A Visit to West Hills;" "Whitman the Most Significant and Most Universal of Modern Writers;" "Was Walt Whitman Mad?," etc. etc.
Includes the following issues:
First Year: 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15.
Second Year: 1-9; 11,12.
Third Year: 2, 3, 6, 8-11.
Fourth Year: 3, 5, 6, 7.
Fifth Year: 3, 5, 8.
Sixth Year: 2, 3.
Ninth Year: 2.
Eleventh Year: 1.
Twelfth Year: 1.
