Sometime ago you kindly said you wd give me something for the Sunday Times
I wish you wd hunt up some of your recent letters from abroad that we copy them for next Sundays Paper.
Where is Edwin Arnold?1
loc.03750.002_large.jpg loc.03750.003_large.jpgI will run down a moment Friday AM—Am glad as Tom H2 tells me you will be dined and wined on your next May-day (Birthday—)
We are all reasonably well save Marrie3 (my brightest child) who has been in bed a week but mending—
Mrs Scovel & both the Girls send their regards
Yours Ever Jas Matlack ScovelAny4 word from abroad [illegible] [illegible] safe [illegible]
James loc.03750.004_large.jpgCorrespondent:
James Matlack Scovel
(1833–1904) began to practice law in Camden in 1856. During the Civil War,
he was in the New Jersey legislature and became a colonel in 1863. He campaigned
actively for Horace Greeley in 1872, and was a special agent for the U.S.
Treasury during Chester Arthur's administration. In the 1870s, Whitman
frequently went to Scovel's home for Sunday breakfast (Whitman's Commonplace
Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman,
1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). For a description of
these breakfasts, see Walt Whitman's Diary in Canada, ed.
William Sloane Kennedy (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1904), 59–60. For Scovel,
see George R. Prowell's The History of Camden County, New
Jersey (Philadelphia: L. J. Richards, 1886).