Here is one soul, born in the year of meteors '59,1 who, most unutterably has, in these last 3½ years, received the shock of thy influence.
Welcome to Britain!—especially to North Britain!—most especially to the foreground of my own certain centre of identity: we will cross orbits.2
Unmistakably yours, J.J. Brown. 160 Cathcart Rd; Glasgow, Scotland. Walt Whitman. United States. America loc.01109.002_large.jpg loc.01109.003_large.jpg loc.01109.004_large.jpgCorrespondent:
John Jarvey Brown (b. 1859) was a chemist and druggist in Glasgow.
According to the 1881 Scotland Census, Brown lived at 160 Cathcart Road; by the 1891 Census, he had moved to 285 Main Street
in the parish of Barony. This letter likely dates to the 1880s.