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1886. Photographer unknown. Not in Saunders. Courtesy Ohio Wesleyan
University, Bayley Collection. With Bill
Duckett. Duckett was a friend, driver, and helper for Whitman and
traveled with Whitman extensively around this time, escorting
Whitman on
stage for his Lincoln lecture in New York in 1887, for example.
There later were troubles with Duckett, but Whitman recalled in
1889
that "he was often with me: we went to Gloucester together: one
trip was to New York: . . . then to Sea Isle City once: I
stayed there at the hotel two or three days--so on: we were
quite thick then: thick: when I had money it was as freely
Bill's as my own: I paid him well for all he did for me. . . .
I liked Bill: he had good points: is bright--very bright."
This photo was probably taken on one of their trips together.
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