Camden1
June 18
The date of publication here has been further postponed to the
20th (to give the London pub'n precedence)—All goes well—A week
of splendid weather here—See the Critic of June
16—"Walt Whitman in Russia"2—Yours of 15th rec'd .—You have just rec'd —havnt you?—a copy of the regular bound ed'n —Don't you like the looks of it?
W W
Notes
- 1. This letter is endorsed:
"Answ'd June 19/83." It is addressed: Wm D O'Connor | Life Saving Service |
Treasury | Washington | DC. It is postmarked: Philadelphia | Pa. | Jun 18 | 1
PM; Washington, Recd. | Jun | 19 | 4 30 AM | 1883 | 2. [back]
- 2. The article was allegedly
written by Dr. P. Popoff. In the margin of a copy, however, Whitman wrote: "my
guess (at random) is that John Swinton is the writer of this article" (Charles
E. Feinberg Collection, Library of Congress, Washington D.C.). On August 12, 1882, Swinton informed the poet that his
lecture on American literature had been translated and printed in Zagranichnyi Viestnik (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Thursday, September 27th, 1888, 393). See also Gay Wilson Allen, Walt Whitman Abroad (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press,
1955), 145. [back]