I write this, to let you know, how glad I am Walt Whitman was born; and that he writes—Oh! that there were more of the same sort, our country needs them. I hope some day to grasp your hand, and hear you speak.
"Democracy"2 made me yell with delight; it put things into shape that I ran all in a heap before.
Go on, and may God bless you and your efforts, as a true American.
Respectfully F. B. Gillette acting [illegible] in chg—Correspondent:
Dr. F. B. Gillette was the acting assistant surgeon at
Port Hospital in Natchez, Mississippi.