Content:
A corrected proof of "To Be Present Only," Whitman's response to an invitation to give an address at the complimentary dinner held in honor of his 70th birthday in Camden on 31 May 1889. Horace Traubel published Whitman's response as "At the Complimentary Dinner, Camden, New Jersey, May 31, 1889" in
Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman, May 31, 1889: Notes, Addresses, Letters, Telegrams
(Philadelphia: David McKay, 1889). Whitman later collected this response in
Complete Prose
(1892), under the title "To Be Present Only."
Whitman Archive Title: At the Complimentary Dinner, Camden
Content:
A corrected proof of "To Be Present Only," Whitman's response to an invitation to give an address at the complimentary dinner held in honor of his 70th birthday in Camden on 31 May 1889. Horace Traubel published Whitman's response as "At the Complimentary Dinner, Camden, New Jersey, May 31, 1889" in
Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman, May 31, 1889: Notes, Addresses, Letters, Telegrams
(Philadelphia: David McKay, 1889). Whitman later collected this response in
Complete Prose
(1892), under the title "To Be Present Only."
Whitman Archive Title: At the Complimentary Dinner, Camden
Content:
A corrected proof of "To Be Present Only," Whitman's response to an invitation to give an address at the complimentary dinner held in honor of his 70th birthday in Camden on 31 May 1889. Horace Traubel published Whitman's response as "At the Complimentary Dinner, Camden, New Jersey, May 31, 1889" in
Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman, May 31, 1889: Notes, Addresses, Letters, Telegrams
(Philadelphia: David McKay, 1889). Whitman later collected this response in
Complete Prose
(1892), under the title "To Be Present Only."
