You have never let me know about that $10, so I suppose you received it from M.1 I am reminded of the matter now by a note from my friend Nugent Robinson2 of Once a Week.3 He asks me to get him some verse. Have you a $10 bit on hand, or will you jot down anything in mind for that amount?
Kindly let me know at once & oblige, yrs very truly,
Melville PhilipsI'll engage to send you the card instantly the poem arrives. Have you utterly loc.03504.002_large.jpg abandoned
all idea of paying me that visit? You know I can make the journey very easy for
you, &, I venture to say, the visit tranquilly pleasant. There are vistas out
there, at Wayne, and the odor of flowers, & the song of birds.
Come
Correspondent:
Melville Phillips was an
editor at Munyon's Illustrated World and visited Whitman
in Camden to request that Whitman contribute work to the journal. He also
reviewed November Boughs in the Philadelphia Press, where he served as literary editor, in
1888.