Charles F. Sloane to Walt Whitman, 23 June 1888

 loc.03706.001_large.jpg 7 Hamilton Place, Boston, Mass. 23d June 88. Dear Mr Whitman,

I [illegible] to address you thus informally because I love your work

I want to ask if you can help me to find four little lines of yours that I saw last summer—perhaps in one of the monthlies.

I have hunted diligently for them but met no success.—I think they were called  loc.03706.002_large.jpg "Twilight": at all events they were of the Twilght, and several to trace a likeness between the fading day and your own declining years—They were very sweet, very tender, and the whole was a beautiful chord whose harmony still vibrates in me, but the notes of which I have lost.1

If I am asking too much, then pay no attention to me, for you must have many calls and demands upon your time.

I am a young man—a Californian—my home being in Los Angeles—

and always your steadfast admirer Chas F. Sloane  loc.03706.003_large.jpg

Is there any list of your books—all of them—their prices, and where they may be found. Do you have time yourself at all, as I have heard?

Chas F. Sloane

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Notes

• 1. Whitman's three-line poem "Twilight" was published in the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine in December 1887. [back]