I leave you this in hopes you can use it in to-morrow's paper—(as the Red Jacket affair has come off to-day at Buffalo.)—I should like $5 for it.
I am well as usual—only very lame—
Walt WhitmanHave the proof read carefully by copy1
Correspondent:
Talcott Williams
(1849–1928) was associated with the New York Sun
and World as well as the Springfield Republican before he became the editor of the Philadelphia Press in 1879. His newspaper vigorously defended Whitman
in news articles and editorials after the Boston censorship of 1882. For more
information about Williams, see Philip W. Leon, "Williams, Talcott (1849–1928)," Walt Whitman:
An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York:
Garland Publishing, 1998).