Walt Whitman visits Boston.

(Feb.) While in Boston, he walks daily on Boston Common. In 1881, he recalls, “I spend a good deal of time on the Common, these delicious days and nights . . . I know all the big trees, especially the Old Elms along Tremont and Beacon Streets . . . I walk’d for two hours, of a bright sharp February mid-day twenty-one years ago, with Emerson then in his prime.”