Can you not come over Friday and stay till Monday with me? Mrs S. & Alys go to Baltimore to the Friends Yearly meeting and Clifford & myself will be left alone. I hope that he has a good transfer of your outer man to canvass1
Yours affy RP Smith Sept 5" loc_jp.00046_large.jpgCorrespondent:
Robert Pearsall Smith
(1827–1898) was a Methodist preacher, writer and businessman. He was the
father of Logan (born 1865) and Alys (born 1867), who later became the first
wife of the philosopher Bertrand Russell. Whitman stayed at the Smiths' house on
numerous occasions.