F. Townsend Southwick to Walt Whitman, [1890?]
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as most convenient1
If possible, kindly let me know your decision in respect to my proposal to select & edit a number of your poems for class use & recitation.
Very Respectfully F. Townsend Southwick #31 W 55 th St.
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Correspondent:
F. Townsend Southwick
(1858–1903) of Rhode Island was trained as a musician, and he became an
expert organist. Later, he studied elocution in Europe and the United States,
and became an authority on the instruction of voice and speech. He published Action and Elocution, a text book on oratory, and he
participated in the founding of the New York Teachers of Oratory of the New York
City, the first society of teachers of elocution in the United States. See "In
Memoriam: F. Townsend Southwick," Philharmonic: A Magazine
Devoted to Literature Music Art (1903), 218.
Notes
- 1. Whitman drew a diagonal line from the top left to the bottom right of this page of Southwick's letter. This is the last page of the letter; the previous page or pages may not survive. [back]