BIB_ID
453757
Accession number
MA 23910
Creator
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
Credit line
Gift of Susan Jaffe Tane in honor of the Morgan's Centennial, 2024.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20 x 12.8 cm
Notes
Written from Brooklyn.
Probable year of writing from contents. In the letter, Whitman refers to two publications about his work, a July 1871 article, "The Poetry of Democracy: Walt Whitman," by Edward Dowden in the Westminster Review (96, pp. 33-68) and a piece titled "An Evening with Swinburne" -- in which Swinburne praised Whitman's poetry -- that appeared in the August 1871 issue of The Galaxy (12, pp. 231-234).
Probable year of writing from contents. In the letter, Whitman refers to two publications about his work, a July 1871 article, "The Poetry of Democracy: Walt Whitman," by Edward Dowden in the Westminster Review (96, pp. 33-68) and a piece titled "An Evening with Swinburne" -- in which Swinburne praised Whitman's poetry -- that appeared in the August 1871 issue of The Galaxy (12, pp. 231-234).
Provenance
Susan Jaffe Tane.
Summary
Sending news of his mother's health; asking her to tell Charles Eldridge that he received his letter as well as one other; addressing William [probably William O'Connor]:"I am unable to get the Westminster itself, or the sheets of the article -- but it will soon be out"; adding "The tone of the allusions to me in the 'Swinburne' piece in Galaxy is capital."
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