I send the two tickets for the lecture—Also a little book for Anna. Also a programme of Donnelly's2 "Cipher" Book—curious to look over.
—Also your Sunday Tribune wh' I pilfered last night—also a couple of Critics—enjoyed a happy three hours last night & am all the better for it to-day—
W W loc.02267.002_large.jpgCorrespondent:
Thomas Biggs Harned
(1851–1921) was one of Whitman's literary executors. Harned was a lawyer
in Philadelphia and, having married Augusta Anna Traubel, was Horace Traubel's
brother-in-law. For more on him, see Dena Mattausch, "Harned, Thomas Biggs (1851–1921)," Walt
Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New
York: Garland Publishing, 1998).