I hear that you are sick2 & write a line to send you my love & all manner of
kind wishes. I was one of the first to welcome you & your poetry on this side of
the Atlantic. I wrote as Arthur Clive in the Gentleman's
Magazine3 long ago &
ever since have ever found
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your books a great comfort & delight to me & have caused many to buy
them
Correspondent:
Standish James O'Grady (1846–1928), a lawyer
and later a celebrated Irish poet, published (under the pseudonym Arthur Clive)
"Walt Whitman: the Poet of Joy," the Gentleman's
Magazine, 15 (December 1875), 704–716, in which he concluded that Walt Whitman
"is the noblest literary product of modern times, and his influence is
invigorating and refining beyond expression." See Harold Blodgett, Walt Whitman in England (Cornell: Cornell University
Press, 1934), 180–182, and Hugh Art O'Grady, Standish
James O'Grady—The Man & the Writer (Dublin: Talbot Press,
1929). See also Joann P. Krieg, chapter 8, "Dublin," Walt Whitman and the Irish (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000), 190–231.