Will you accept the enclosed from one who is an admirer of your work? It is sent with the hope that it please you to know how highly in Scotland that work is appreciated.
Yours faithfully James Wilkie Walt Whitman Camden New Jersey loc_vm.02453_large.jpg loc_vm.02454_large.jpg loc_vm.02455_large.jpg Wilkie JasCorrespondent:
James Wilkie was a Scottish
admirer of Whitman, whose 44-page pamphlet on the poet, The
Democratic Movement in Literature, was printed in Scotland in
1886.