John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 20 December 1876 a machine readable transcription John Newton Johnson Kenneth M. Price Ed Folsom Transcription and encoding Alex Kinnaman Jonathan Y. Cheng Elizabeth Lorang Ashley Lawson John Schwaninger Nima Najafi Kianfar Caterina Bernardini Nicole Gray Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Iowa National Historical Publications and Records Commission 2014 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 loc.01854 John Newton Johnson John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 20 December 1876 December 20, 1876 MSS18630, Box 17, Reel 10-11 The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. John Newton Johnson Walt Whitman added correspondent ref checked, corrected Checked, revised added schematron declaration made basic checking changes to file proofed proofed proofed Transcribed and encoded To Walt Whitman

This is John Burroughs' Answer to a Card I sent him last of Nov—inquiring about the letter I sent him a year and a half ago—

Please forward him the two pieces written for him after you read them.

We are all about well.

I enclose stamps to pay the letter to Burroughs—"The soul is OF Touch"—how much meaning in that o-f!!

Write when it suits you and boast some on your future prospects.

J. N.John Newton Johnson Esopus, N.Y. Dec 1st 76 My Dear Sir:

Yes, I received the letter, with the picture & printed slips last year, & meant to have written in reply, but put it off too long, as I am so apt to do. Did you wish me to send the picture to Whitman? I saw "great " I have since, I think spared to us many years yet. He promised to come & see me in the spring.

I have a 10 acre farm here on the banks of the Hudson near Po'keepsiePoughkeepsie, I spend some of my time as National Bank Examiner, but most of here amid homely rural things which suits me best. I have one acre of strawberries, one of cherry currant, one of Red Raspberries & one of grapes. I also have a orchard. I like the fruits hay. I sometime take hold myself.

Crops here of all kinds were much injured by the drought,—am sorry to hear of your bad luck & that with the rest death has taken one of your flock.

I have no children & so am exempt from the pain of their loss.—Sorry you did not vote. I think Hayes is the man for all men of progress & ideas. Let me hear from you again. I will not be so dilatory in answering again.

this morning.

J.B.John Burroughs