Owing to not being able to see you while at your house last thursday I concludet to write and state to you that my brother2 has gone to the Quarry in Massachusetts and will stay there untill all the stones connected with your work are split out. now be kind enough and look over the paper wich I left with you and see if all correct as we are govern ourselfs according and I will call with Mr. Moore3 to see you nex tuesday morning at about 10 oclock, should this date not suit please drop me a line, wishing you the best of health and in hopes to see you well. I remain
Yours very truly J. E. Reinhalter loc.03300.002_large.jpg loc.03300.003_large.jpg loc.03300.004_large.jpgCorrespondent:
P. Reinhalter & Co. of
Philadelphia built Whitman's tomb—an elaborate granite tomb of the poet's
design— in Harleigh Cemetery in Camden, New Jersey. The tomb cost
$4,000. Whitman covered a portion of these costs with money that his Boston
friends had raised so that the poet could purchase a summer cottage; the
remaining balance was paid by Whitman's literary executor, Thomas Harned. For
more information on the cemetery and Whitman's tomb, see See Geoffrey M. Still,
"Harleigh Cemetery," Walt Whitman: An
Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York:
Garland Publishing, 1998).