Thanks for "Notes on America"—safely rec'd & read with interest by me. I consider your Carlyle to be as much a democrat as anybody—more than a good many accepted ones—I am much the same as when you saw me last—pulled a little lower down perhaps
Walt Whitman loc.02240.002_large.jpgCorrespondent:
C. Oscar Gridley of London
was the secretary of the Carlyle Society and had called on Whitman in April
1884. He had contributed to William Michael Rossetti and Herbert Gilchrist's
fundraiser for Whitman in 1885. The poet called Gridley a "friend of L of G. and
W. W." in a letter to Gilchrist of September 15,
1885.