I thank Mrs. Taylor1 heartily for her poem to me—not forgetting you too for kindly sending it—I keep about as well as usual this summer.
Walt WhitmanCorrespondent:
"Miss Elwell was a friend of
my sister's . . . [she] is a reader—a bright woman," Whitman later
explained to Horace Traubel (With Walt Whitman in Camden,
Tuesday, December 25, 1888).