I should like to bring Dr. de Schweinitz1 one of the very best oculists in the city to look at your eyes on Wednesday at about 3 30 You will like him. He is your kind of man & I hope the hour suits you. Please let me know as above
Yours cordially Talcott Williams2 loc_vm.01383_large.jpg Sands—20 | Good Bye 20 | Backward Glance 18Correspondent:
Talcott Williams
(1849–1928) was associated with the New York Sun
and World as well as the Springfield Republican before he became the editor of the Philadelphia Press in 1879. His newspaper vigorously defended Whitman
in news articles and editorials after the Boston censorship of 1882. For more
information about Williams, see Philip W. Leon, "Williams, Talcott (1849–1928)," Walt Whitman:
An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York:
Garland Publishing, 1998).