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Title: James M. Scovel to Walt Whitman, 6 October 1890
Date: October 6, 1890
Whitman Archive ID: loc.03753
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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Friday1
Dear Walt
I dont know but what you had better let me (instead of little Albright2) get up that W.W article for Lippincott They want it soon
J M S . .
Correspondent:
James Matlack Scovel
(1833–1904) began to practice law in Camden in 1856. During the Civil War,
he was in the New Jersey legislature and became a colonel in 1863. He campaigned
actively for Horace Greeley in 1872, and was a special agent for the U.S.
Treasury during Chester Arthur's administration. In the 1870s, Whitman
frequently went to Scovel's home for Sunday breakfast (Whitman's Commonplace
Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman,
1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). For a description of
these breakfasts, see Walt Whitman's Diary in Canada, ed.
William Sloane Kennedy (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1904), 59–60. For Scovel,
see George R. Prowell's The History of Camden County, New
Jersey (Philadelphia: L. J. Richards, 1886).
Notes:
1. This letter is addressed: Walt Whitman | 238 Mickle | Camden NJ. It is postmarked: CAMDEN, N.J. | OCT 6 | 6 AM | 90. [back]
2. Little is known of Albright, who is mentioned several times in Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden; he was apparently associated with the Philadelphia Public Ledger. [back]