I think of coming your way next summer, and I should then visit you (sending you word
beforehand)—I am writing this in the winter sunshine1 and send
my warmest remembrance to you and Professor.2
Walt Whitman
Notes
- 1. On January 26, 1879,
the Philadelphia Times published Whitman's article
"Winter Sunshine. A Trip from Camden to the Coast." The pun on the title in this
brief note would seem to indicate that this is the lost letter Whitman wrote to
Ritter noted in his Daybooks and Notebooks, ed. William
White (New York: New York University Press, 1978) for February 24, 1879, and
that he enclosed a copy of the article. [back]
- 2. Frédéric
Louis Ritter, composer and professor at Vassar College, who set Whitman's "Two
Veterans" to music in 1880. [back]