I have received through your consideration a copy of "The
Camden Post" and read with a great amount of interest the leader about your noble self.2 The description makes me feel as if I had been in your
room with its big trunk, and chair, and books and things
scattered about.—Ye gods! You should see my room. It would bewilder the Devil
and the Camden Post to boot to describe loc.02244.002_large.jpg
loc.02244.003_large.jpg Its contents and
wild disorder. It would remind you of the story told about the old
woman who had let her Parrot and Monkey out of their cages in her absence, and on
her return found things in a h—l of a condition.
The next time I go to Philadelphia I will run over to Camden (without invitation) to see you, and once more, by looking you in the face, recover memories of the past that will refurnish the lost beats of my heart time has taken from me.
—Yours with Love and respect, Gabriel Harrison.Correspondent:
Gabriel Harrison was a
daguerreotypist and photographer responsible for many of the early images of
Whitman.