328 Mickle Street
Camden New Jersey
July 20 '86
Dear Sir
I hereby give you permission to include any of my pieces you desire in your "Half
Hours"1—
Walt Whitman
Correspondent:
Charles Morris
(1833–1922) was an American journalist and popular historian.
Notes
- 1. Morris wrote to Whitman
on July 19 requesting permission to include "Song
of the Redwood-Tree" in Half-Hours with the Best American
Authors, 4 vols. (1886–1887). The poem appeared with a prefatory
comment upon Whitman's "lack of the spiritual element of thought"
(2:489–494). [back]