give me a second proof please—leave it at dinner-time, if convenient, & I will read it & send it back immediately, so you can print me some slips this afternoon1—
W. W.Correspondent:
Henry Curtz was a
printer/compositor at 104 S. Second St. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He
occasionally visited Whitman at his Camden home, and Whitman often used him to
set various pieces, to print stationery, envelopes, and shipping labels, and to
run proofs and send the poet printed slips. Whitman told Horace Traubel:
"Curtz—poor devil! I throw as much in his way as I can"(With Walt Whitman in Camden, Tuesday, November 25, 1890). Another time, he described Curtz this
way: "Henry Curtz. You know him, Horace. He is rather an effete
person—seems as if left over from a very remote past: his queer little
office, the Washington press, the old faced letters, the wood type, Curtz
himself: it's all odd and attractive to me. Be good to Curtz—he's the last
of his race" (With Walt Whitman in Camden, Saturday, May 19, 1888).