I have rec'd your kind proposition—Yes, if I compose anything fit for your purposes I will send you—but I am disabled & unwell more than half the time & cannot be relied on—Do not for the present put my name on your printed list of contributors—
Walt Whitman loc.03106.001_large.jpgCorrespondent:
Samuel Sidney McClure
(1857–1949) was an investigative journalist who in 1884 established the
first newspaper syndicate in the United States, which occasionally solicited and
published work by Whitman; later, he co-founded McClure's
Magazine, which published work by Whitman posthumously.