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Title: Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton to Walt Whitman, 3 November 1875

Date: November 3, 1875

Whitman Archive ID: loc.01732

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.

Editorial notes: The annotation, "Lord Houghton Nov. '75," is in the hand of Walt Whitman. The annotation, "see notes Sept 12 1888," is in the hand of Horace Traubel.

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York Farm,
Branchtown
P.O.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Nov. 3d, 1875.1

Lord Houghton proposes to visit Mr Whitman next Saturday Nov 6th & would be obliged to him to inform him what hour would be the most convenient


Correspondent:
Richard Monckton Milnes (1809–1885), Lord Houghton, was an intimate of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) and William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), as well as a poet. He was a collector of famous people; in Dictionary of National Biography he is characterized as "eminently a dilettante" (New York: Macmillan and Co., 1894), 21. Houghton wrote to Joaquin Miller on September 1, 1875, from Chicago: "Please give my best regards to Mr Whitman." On September 5, 1875, Miller informed Whitman that he was trying to arrange a meeting with Lord Houghton. Houghton himself wrote to Whitman on September 27, 1875, and proposed a visit at the end of October or early in November. See In Re Walt Whitman (1893), ed. Horace L. Traubel, Richard Maurice Bucke, and Thomas B. Harned, 36; and Harold Blodgett, Walt Whitman in England (1934), 141–143.

Notes:

1. This letter is addressed: Walt Whitman | 431 Stevens St. | —corner West. | Camden | N. Jersey. It is postmarked: Philad'a | Nov 4 | W | PA. [back]


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