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Title: Walt Whitman to Thomas W. H. Rolleston, 3 November 1884
Date: November 3, 1884
Whitman Archive ID: uka.00002
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328 Mickle Street1
Camden New Jersey US America
Nov 3 '84—
The package of MS. came to hand safely yesterday—I have just had a letter from F Lee, Highlands, St Saviour's, Jersey—I keep on about as usual—
Walt Whitman
Correspondent:
Thomas William Hazen Rolleston
(1857–1920) was an Irish poet and journalist. After attending college in
Dublin, he moved to Germany for a period of time. He wrote to Whitman
frequently, beginning in 1880, and later produced with Karl Knortz the first
book-length translation of Whitman's poetry into German. In 1889, the collection
Grashalme: Gedichte [Leaves of
Grass: Poems] was published by Verlags-Magazin in Zurich, Switzerland.
See Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman (Iowa
City: University of Iowa Press, 1995). For more information on Rolleston, see
Walter Grünzweig, "Rolleston, Thomas William Hazen (1857–1920)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D.
Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998).
Notes:
1. This postal card is addressed: T W Rolleston | glass house Shinrone | Kings County Ireland. It is postmarked: CAMDEN | NOV | 2 | 1884 | N.J.; PHILADELPHIA, P.A. | NOV | 2 | 1884 | PAID; [illegible] SCREA | B | NO 13 | 84. [on verso:] [illegible] SCREA | B | NO 13 | 84. [back]