Nothing very new or different—I am still in my sick room—Sit up most of the day—write some & keep pretty good spirits—but am as weak & feeble as ever. (Sometimes I opine will remain so.) I think Herbert2 is coming to America soon—may be this month. It is raining all day like fury—coolish—
Walt Whitman loc_jc.00393_large.jpgCorrespondent:
Susan M. Lamb Stafford
(1833–1910) was the mother of Harry Stafford (1858–1918), who, in
1876, became a close friend of Whitman while working at the printing office of
the Camden New Republic. Whitman regularly visited the
Staffords at their family farm near Kirkwood, New Jersey. Whitman enjoyed the
atmosphere and tranquility that the farm provided and would often stay for weeks
at a time (see David G. Miller, "Stafford, George and Susan M.," Walt Whitman: An
Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings [New York:
Garland Publishing, 1998], 685).