The Asherah, the little club of which I spoke to you,1
goes tomorrow Saturday May 21 to Gloucester. We shall go down in a tug, leaving
Spruce at wharf at 5 P.M. We will call for you at any Camden wharf, if you will go
down on the tug or will you meet us? If this reaches you Friday, a letter will reach
me, but I think you loc_vm.01389_large.jpg had better
telegraph to the office any way. I hope you can go by tug or
trace—one way or the other. You will like the boys, they will adore you and it
will do you and us good all around
Correspondent:
Talcott Williams
(1849–1928) was associated with the New York Sun
and World as well as the Springfield Republican before he became the editor of the Philadelphia Press in 1879. His newspaper vigorously defended Whitman
in news articles and editorials after the Boston censorship of 1882. For more
information about Williams, see Philip W. Leon, "Williams, Talcott (1849–1928)," Walt Whitman:
An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York:
Garland Publishing, 1998).