Thanks, dear H S M, for the beautiful volume of sea-shore & sea-pieces2—wh' has safely reached me—
Walt WhitmanCorrespondent:
Harrison Smith Morris
(1856–1948) was a businessman and man of letters. Horace Traubel published
Morris's translation of French critic Gabriel Sarrazin's essay "Walt Whitman" in
the tribute collection In Re Walt Whitman, ed. Horace
Traubel, Richard Maurice Bucke, and Thomas B. Harned [Philadelphia: McKay,
1893], 159–194. Morris also wrote a biography of the poet, Walt Whitman: A Brief Biography with Reminiscences
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1929).