Isabel Yeomans Brown to Walt Whitman, 6 January 1892

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Title: Isabel Yeomans Brown to Walt Whitman, 6 January 1892
Date: January 6, 1892
Creator(s): Isabel Yeomans Brown
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01102
Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
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Cite this page: Brown, Isabel Yeomans. "Isabel Yeomans Brown to Walt Whitman, 6 January 1892." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 23 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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loc.01102.001_large.jpg No 325 Theodore St. Ottawa Jan. 6th/92 Dear Walt Whitman

As I sat in the evening reading your poems I felt a strong desire to tell you how much you are to me and how much more you will be in the future. It seems that I find loc.01102.002_large.jpg new and grander meanings in your words each time I read them. They open up vistas.

I know that things that troubled me formerly will have power to vex me no longer, I will be at ease, with you for my friend, I will commune with you more frequently.

If I could I would clasp your hand and tell loc.01102.003_large.jpg you that I felt your physical weakness and suffering. I send this line straight from me to you to tell you that I love you.

Isabel Yeomans Brown.

loc.01102.004_large.jpg To Mildred & Frank Bain Nov 1911 | Here's a beautiful letter written W. wh he was on his death bed by one of your own countrywomen. Horace Traubel I read this letter aloud to W.W. myself the day it came

Correspondent:
Isabel Yeomans Brown (1867–1910) was a central figure in numerous women's organizations in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She was President of the Ottawa Equal Suffrage Association and instrumental in the formation of the organization. She was also a prominent figure in the Unitarian Women's Alliance. She was married to John Henry Brown, a civil service worker, and the couple had five sons. For more information, see her obituary: "Mrs. J. H. Brown Died Yesterday," The Ottawa Journal (September 22, 1910), 1.