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Title: James Knowles to Walt Whitman, 20 August 1884
Date: August 20, 1884
Whitman Archive ID: loc.03197
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 note: The annotation, "from Editor Nineteenth Century," is in the hand of Walt Whitman.
Contributors to digital file: Alex Ashland, Stefan Schöberlein, and Kyle Barton
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Queen Anne's Lodge,
St James's Park. S. W.
20th Aug 1884
Dear Sir /
I am very much obliged by your kind offer of the little M.S. on "What lurks behind Shakespeare's Historical Plays?" & greatly regret that its extreme brevity renders it hardly suitable as an article for the XIXth Century.
I return it accordingly herewith but in the hope that you may see your way to amplify the treatment beyond its present limits of a mere hint or suggestion, & give it the importance by way of illustration & proof which the subject deserves. Hoping to hear again from you & thanking you cordially for writing to me at all, I remain
Yours very truly
James Knowles
Walt Whitman Esq
Correspondent:
James Thomas Knowles
(1831–1908) was the editor of The Nineteenth
Century, a leading British monthly magazine, in which "Fancies at Navesink" was published on August 18, 1885. He was also an
architect and the founder of the Metaphysical Society, dedicated to discovering
common ground between science and religion.