1309 Fifth av: near 86th st: New York1
May 24 noon
My dear Mr Bloor2
I have returned the two pamphlets—which I suppose you have rec'd.3 In a letter in the Tribune of
to-day I have printed (as I some time since notified you)4 what you said—(well said)—about actors—I remain here till
latter part of next week—then to Camden, New Jersey, which is my permanent p o
address—Shall count on getting the extracts from your Journal about Mr
Lincon's murder & funeral soon as you can conveniently send
them.5
Walt Whitman
Notes
- 1. The New York residence of
John H. Johnston, whom Whitman was visiting at the time. [back]
- 2. Alfred Janson Bloor
(1828–1917) was, he informed Whitman on June 9,
1879, a member of the architectural staff that designed Central Park.
He was a poet as well as the author of a number of architectural treatises.
Whitman quoted from Bloor's letter at the conclusion of his article in the Tribune on May 24 (see The Collected
Writings of Walt Whitman: Prose Works 1892, ed. Floyd Stovall [New
York: New York University Press, 1964], 342). Bloor had taken exception to
Whitman's contemptuous references to actors in his lecture on Lincoln's
murder. [back]
- 3. Unidentified, perhaps
some of Bloor's own treatises. [back]
- 4. A lost letter written on
April 29. [back]
- 5. On June 9, 2879, Alfred
Janson Bloor sent to Whitman "a copy of the selections you made from my journal,
and also an account of the information Miss Harris [daughter of Senator Ira
Harris] gave me as to what she knew of Mr. Lincoln's assassination" (Library of
Congress). [back]