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Title: R. Rooke Morgan to Walt Whitman, [1891?]
Date: [1891?]
Whitman Archive ID: loc.08462
Source: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1842–1937, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Related item: Whitman used the back of this letter to draft "Grand is the Seen," a poem that was first published in his book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).
Contributors to digital file: Marie Ernster, Amanda J. Axley, Tara Ballard, Stephanie Blalock, and Paige Wilkinson
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this1life ended, you may dwell in everlasting bliss throughout the endless ages of eternity.2
Yours Sincerely
R. Rooke Morgan,
Correspondent:
The writer of this letter
may have been Robert Rooke Morgan (1866–1930), who was a reverend in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Notes:
1. The rest of this letter has not yet been located. [back]
2. The thematic relationship between Morgan's last phrase and the 1891 poem Whitman wrote on the back suggests the letter was probably received during that year. [back]