328 Mickle Street
Camden New Jersey1
Nov: 25 '852
My dear W R T
Thanks for the $5. "remembrance." Nothing very new with me. My sight is
better—walking power slim, almost not at all—spirits buoyant. Glad to
get your letters. As I write, we here are just through a dark November storm of
three days, & the sun is coming out.
Walt Whitman
Correspondent:
William Roscoe Thayer
(1859–1923) was an American historian, editor of John Hay's letters, and a
biographer of Theodore Roosevelt. He would publish Personal
Recollections of Walt Whitman in 1919.
Notes
- 1. This letter is addressed:
Wm R Thayer | 68 Mt Auburn Street | Cambridge | Mass:. It is postmarked:
Philadelphia, (?) | Nov 25 | (?) | 85. [back]
- 2. Thayer called on the poet
on September 4, 1885 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection
of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington,
D.C.). According to his "Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman" in Scribner's Monthly, 65 (1919), 674–687, he visited
Whitman with decided reluctance at the urging of Clifton J. Furness when he was
on the staff of the Philadelphia Evening
Telegraph. [back]