Thanks for the money & order wh' were duly rec'd—I have sent the book1 to you by express, & when you get it safely please send me a card notifying me. Am laid up here disabled & paralyzed, but getting along, & comfortable enough.
Best love to you & yours2— Walt Whitman har.00039.002_large.jpgCorrespondent:
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(1836–1907) was associated with Henry Clapp's Saturday
Press from 1858 until its final number in 1860; see Ferris Greenslet,
the Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, Co., 1908), 37–49. In 1865 Aldrich left New York and returned to
Boston—to gentility and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Aldrich was editor of
the Atlantic Monthly from 1881 to 1890. For Aldrich's
opinion of Whitman's poetry, see Greenslet, 138–139.