We are so sorry to hear you are so ill, & we long to help you. You have done so much
for us, your "Leaves of Grass" have been a real Bible to us, full of hope for our poor
human race & especially for the help you have given to our half of humanity,
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namely the Women. It is about 3 years now since we found you, & you have been a dear
& cherished friend ever
since, at first secretly because of the Jews but we can dare to speak now more openly of
our prophet.
It is so painful to us to hear of so dear a friend
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being in trouble, we sh.d like to go
over & nurse you. But we cannot, one of us is busy with professional engagements; &
the other cannot leave her mother. We are sending this to your friend & champion
Rosetti 1 as we do not
know your address. Dear Walt Whitman
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pray accept the warmest sympathy from two grateful Scotch Women.2
P.S. I once wrote to you before, but I fear you may not have got the letter—it was about Xmas, 2 years ago.3
T.C.S.Correspondent:
As yet we have no information about
these correspondents.