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328 Mickle Street
Camden New Jersey
June 20 '87
Thank you my friend for the delicious chocolate—I have it for my breakfast
frequently, & enjoy it—Please accept a copy of my little book "Specimen
Days" London ed'n. which I send for the young folks.
Walt Whitman
It is just possible I have sent you a note of acknowledgment before—but I
think not as I have been ill. (I suppose Pearsall Smith1 was the cause of your sending it to me.)
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Notes
- 1. Robert Pearsall Smith
(1827–1898) was a Quaker who became an evangelical minister associated
with the "Holiness movement." He was also a writer and businessman. Whitman
often stayed at his Philadelphia home, where the poet became friendly with the
Smith children—Mary, Logan, and Alys. For more information about Smith,
see Christina Davey, "Smith, Robert Pearsall (1827–1898)," Walt
Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New
York: Garland Publishing, 1998). [back]