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74 Clinton Place
New York City
Nov 2. 1890
Dear Sir.
My friend Mr Stedman1 tells me that he thinks you would allow me
to call on you. Since I left England it has been my greatest wish to have the great
pleasure of seeing you that I hope to be able to roam over to Camden on Tuesday next
for that purpose, and to thank you as one who has already found a friend in your
works
faithfully yours
Gleeson White.
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Correspondent:
Joseph William Gleeson White
(1851–1898) was an English critic and editor. He wrote extensively on the
subjects of design, illustration, and book-binding. He also founded the
periodical The Studio. He wrote English
Illustration: The 1860s (1897), a study of Victorian book art, and he
contributed to numerous periodicals and designed several book covers.
Notes
- 1. Edmund Clarence Stedman
(1833–1908) was a man of diverse talents. He edited for a year the Mountain County Herald at Winsted, Connecticut, wrote
"Honest Abe of the West," presumably Lincoln's first campaign song, and served
as correspondent of the New York World from 1860 to 1862.
In 1862 and 1863 he was a private secretary in the Attorney General's office
until he entered the firm of Samuel Hallett and Company in September, 1863. The
next year he opened his own brokerage office. He published many volumes of poems
and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were Poets of America, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1885) and A Library of American Literature from the Earliest
Settlement to the Present Time, 11 vols. (New York: C. L. Webster,
1889–90). For more, see Donald Yannella, "Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833–1908)," Walt
Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New
York: Garland Publishing, 1998). [back]