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Title: Sam Walter Foss to Walt Whitman, 26 May 1884
Date: May 26, 1884
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02050
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, "SW Foss," is in an unknown hand. The annotation, "see notes Aug 26 & 30, '88," is in the hand of Horace Traubel.
Contributors to digital file: Alex Ashland, Stefan Schöberlein, and Nicole Gray
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THE SATURDAY UNION.
A Literary and Political Newspaper.
LARGEST CIRCULATION OF THE LYNN WEEKLIES.
SMYTHE & FOSS, Publishers.
Lynn, Mass.
May 26 1884
Mr. Walt Whitman:
Dear Sir,
I send you with this letter two copies of our paper, both containing notices of your poems. Permit me to thank you warmly for the great inspiration I have received from the reading of Leaves of Grass. In my opinion, it marks a new era in American Literature; and is to stand out more and more prominently, as time advances, as the distinctively American book
Most Respectfully,
S. W. Foss
Correspondent:
Sam Walter Foss
(1858–1911) was an American poet and editorial writer for the Boston Globe. In 1887 he became the editor of the Yankee Blade.