I am very much obliged by your kind offer of the little M.S. on "What lurks behind Shakespeare's Historical Plays?" & greatly regret that its extreme brevity renders it hardly suitable as an article for the XIXth Century.
I return it accordingly herewith but in the hope that you may see your way to amplify the treatment beyond its present limits of a mere hint or suggestion, & give it the importance by way of illustration & proof which the subject deserves. Hoping to hear again from you & thanking you cordially for writing to me at all, I remain
Yours very truly James KnowlesWalt Whitman Esq
loc.03197.002_large.jpg loc.03197.003_large.jpg loc.03197.004_large.jpgCorrespondent:
James Thomas Knowles
(1831–1908) was the editor of The Nineteenth
Century, a leading British monthly magazine, in which "Fancies at Navesink" was published on August 18, 1885. He was also an
architect and the founder of the Metaphysical Society, dedicated to discovering
common ground between science and religion.