Some weeks after I had made my last remittance to you1 I received $8 from a friend & admirer of yours Charles Leland Harrison.2 I have been hoping to bring it over; but I will put it off no longer and hand you the last fragment of the happiest loc_vm.01350_large.jpg loc_vm.01349_large.jpg help to another in which I have ever shared. Your postal cards were better than all the letters in the world. In joy and gratitude at the privilege of being one on whom you rely I am
Yours Talcott Williams loc_vm.01351_large.jpg From Talcott Williams June '86 (enclosing $8)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).