Camden, New Jersey—U S America
Oct: 8 '82 1
Your handsome "Buster og Masker"2
has safely reach'd me—best thanks—I will soon send you a copy of my prose "Specimen Days"3—Dr Bucke's
book is not printed yet—My volumes are now published in Philadelphia & are
selling fairly—I rec'd. & acknowledg'd g'd Thorsteinsson's poems4—I am well as
usual—
Walt Whitman
Notes
- 1. This letter is addressed:
Rudolf Schmidt | Baggesen's Gate 3 | Copenhagen | Denmark. It is postmarked:
Camden | Oct | 8 | 6 PM | N.J.; K | Omb 1 | 3 10 82. [back]
- 2. Buster
og Masker contains a revised version of Schmidt's essay on Whitman
originally published in 1872. Schmidt's book, inscribed, is now in the Charles
E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library
of Congress, Washington, D.C. [back]
- 3. See the post card from
Whitman to Schmidt of October 13, 1882. [back]
- 4. See the letter from
Whitman to Schmidt of December 18, 1881. [back]