O.W. True to Walt Whitman, 1 September 1889
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To
Walt Whitman, Esq.
"Leaves of Grass"—I have read them! Thanks for writing them, whose pages glitter so with pregnant drops of such noble, grand Naturism
- –scarcely diluted with a stain of super-naturalism
- –so conprehensive —the many, the One to be—Us all!
O Walt! O Bruno!
Many will yet thank you.
Walt Whitman Class may I not join it—thy pupil be—till time with us is no more?
Truly yours till then— O. W. True. Farmington, Me., 9-1-'89.
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Correspondent:
Little is known about the
physician O.W. True. Dr. True succeeded Dr. Henry Warren (H. W.) Hamilton as a
practicing homeopathic physician in Farmington, Franklin County, Maine. Dr.
Hamilton, who is credited with bringing homeopathy to Farmington in 1861, later
moved to Vermont, leaving his practice to Dr. True. See "History of Homeopathy
in Maine. An Address before the Homeopathic Medical Society of Maine by William
E. Payne, M.D., of Bath, Me 1867," North American Journal of
Homeopathy 16 (November 1867), 210–226. See also "Dr. Henry
Warren Hamilton," New England Families: Genealogical and
Memorial, ed. William Richard Cutter, A. M., Vol. 3 (New York: Lewis
Historical Publishing Company, 1941), 1481–1482.