I should like to come over Saturday, be there about noon—will come up in the horse cars—will spend some hours with Mr. Clifford, & if you come home early enough, and the weather good, we may have a (longer or shorter) drive, before supper—will leave the question of my stopping over Sunday, open.
Walt WhitmanCorrespondent:
Robert Pearsall Smith
(1827–1898) was a Quaker who became an evangelical minister associated
with the "Holiness movement." He was also a writer and businessman. Whitman
often stayed at his Philadelphia home, where the poet became friendly with the
Smith children—Mary, Logan, and Alys. For more information about Smith,
see Christina Davey, "Smith, Robert Pearsall (1827–1898)," Walt
Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New
York: Garland Publishing, 1998).