More than a year ago we first read your poems & since then they have done so much for us that we now write wishing to express our reverence & gratitude. We are Australian & feel that in Australia a loc_vm.01693_large.jpg people are growing up who will help to give shape to the thought of Democracy—a people in sympathy with the aim & tendency of America—& so we want to thank you for having shown us what modern life can & ought to be—for we loc_vm.01694_large.jpg recognise your poems as prophecies of the grander future & the greater religion that is to be. In a new land like Australia—where the young life is free & rigorous—we believe that your message will be sooner accepted than among the old-world nations & that a day will come when you will receive not our thanks only but our whole country's.
loc_vm.01695_large.jpgCorrespondent:
Nothing is known about the correspondent or
correspondents other than that they are an Australian admirer or admirers of
Whitman's poems.