Camden New Jersey1
July 28 1887
Thanks for the good photo—dear little fellow—I too hope we shall meet
personally—Best love to you—& to your
parents—
Walt Whitman
John's letter rec'd, all right & welcome2—
Correspondent:
As yet we have no information about
this correspondent.
Notes
- 1. This letter is addressed:
James Stewart Wroth | Care Dr. Harry Wroth | Albuquerque | New Mexico. It is
postmarked: Philadelphia, Pa. | Jul 28 | (?) PM | 87. [back]
- 2. According to Miller,
Wroth informed Whitman that he "was just under two years of age when this card
was sent" (Miller, ed., The Correspondence [New York: New
York University Press, 1961–77], 4:112, note 7). The recipient's father,
James Henry Wroth, was known as "Harry" to his intimate friends; he died in
1926. James Henry's brother John had written to Walt Whitman on June 2, 1887. [back]