I am over-joyed to receive your volume and autograph be sure it will be read and heralded to the world. I saw Mr. Howells1 yesterday spent the afternoon with him in discussing reforms, literary progress etcHe spoke of you again with a good deal of feeling.
I think it of very great importance that you send him an autograph copy of "November
Boughs."2 If it has not been done loc.02130.002_large.jpg
loc.02130.003_large.jpg dont fail to do
it at once. If you send it immediately upon receipt of this letter address
W.D. Howells
Little Nahaut
(Near Lynn) Mass.
If you do not send till next week address W.D. Howells 330 East 17th st. New York City.
And I will write him again about it. He is more than friendly to you and all progressive movements.
With deepest regard— Hamlin GarlandCorrespondent:
Hamlin Garland
(1860–1940) was an American novelist and autobiographer, known especially
for his works about the hardships of farm life in the American Midwest. For his
relationship to Whitman, see Thomas K. Dean, "Garland, Hamlin," Walt Whitman: An
Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York:
Garland Publishing, 1998).