Wont you read over carefully Amelia Rives'1 poem in today's Herald and give me an expert's opinion on it for publication in the Herald? I will call for this tomorrow, for I am sure you will have something instructive to say about the poem.2
Very truly yours, C.H. Browning loc.01093.002_large.jpgCorrespondent:
C. H. Browning worked in the
Philadelphia office of the New York Herald, and he later
worked in the same capacity for the New York World.
Whitman described Browning as "a fine, dark-browed, vital, affectionate sort of
a man—a newspaper man made of the real stuff" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Sunday, August 12, 1888). Browning convinced Whitman to write "A Voice from the Death," a poem on the Johnstown flood that was
printed in the World on June 7, 1889.