Will you do something for me, in the Press office if not too much trouble? Get a certain MS of mine "A poet's 68th year" (3 or 4 pages) I sent ten days ago directed "W R Merrill manging editor &c," of which no notice has been taken & reënclose said MS to me here—
Yours as always Walt WhitmanCome over & see me
col.00011.002_large.jpg col.00011.003_large.jpgCorrespondent:
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).