431 Stevens st
cor West
Camden
N Jersey
U S America
April 4 '761
Robert Buchanan—
My dear friend—
I merely want to say that I have read your letter in the London Daily News2—all your three letters—& that I deeply appreciate them,
& do not hesitate to accept & respond to them in the same spirit in which they were surely impelled & written.
May God bless you & yours,
Walt Whitman.
Notes
- 1. This draft letter is
endorsed, "to Buchanan | April 4 '76 | Sent B the N Y | letter of July 4 '78 |
(to Olean Scotland)." The last three lines of the endorsement were added three
years later. Whitman referred to "A Poet's Recreation," published in the New York Tribune on July 4, 1878; see Whitman's July 12, 1878 letter to Whitelaw Reid. [back]
- 2. Buchanan's article of
March 13, 1876; Whitman had referred to it in a March
17, 1876 letter to William Michael Rossetti. [back]