I send you a line or two as a brief token of our constant thoughts of you and of our dearest love.3
We cherish always the faith & hope you have taught us, and, with strong cheer & acceptance of fate, send you our tenderest blessing and love.
And, here is a kiss long & tender X from
loc_vm.02056_large.jpg your loving Wallace loc_vm.02057_large.jpg loc_vm.02058_large.jpg loc_vm.02059_large.jpg see notes april 2 1892 loc_vm.02060_large.jpgCorrespondent:
James William Wallace
(1853–1926), of Bolton, England, was an architect and great admirer of
Whitman. Wallace, along with Dr. John Johnston (1852–1927), a physician in
Bolton, founded the "Bolton College" of English admirers of the poet. Johnston
and Wallace corresponded with Whitman and with Horace Traubel and other members
of the Whitman circle in the United States, and they separately visited the poet
and published memoirs of their trips in John Johnston and James William Wallace,
Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890–1891 by Two
Lancashire Friends (London: Allen and Unwin, 1917). For more
information on Wallace, see Larry D. Griffin, "Wallace, James William (1853–1926)," Walt
Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New
York: Garland Publishing, 1998).