Walt Whitman to Rudolf Schmidt, 15 September 1872 a machine readable transcription Walt Whitman Kenneth M. Price Ed Folsom Transcription and encoding The Walt Whitman Archive Staff Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Iowa National Historical Publications and Records Commission 2012 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 rlc.00007 The following are responsible for particular readings or for changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Ashley Lawson Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman Edwin Haviland Miller The Correspondence New York New York University Press 1961–1977 2 185–186 Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Rudolf Schmidt, 15 September 1872 September 15, 1872 The Royal Library of Copenhagen Walt Whitman Rudolf Schmidt added schematron declaration removed hard returns within choice tags checked checked checked encoded extracted transcription from Major Authors cd Washington, U. S. America. September 15, 1872. My dear Rudolf Schmidt,

Your letter of 17th August has just reached me—also the Dagbladet, (four no'snumbers.) The feuilleton about me I have just had read in English by a Dane, Mr. Bendz. I am deeply touched at being more and more brought right among warm human hearts in Denmark, Norway, &c—& so friendly entertained there. It comforts & nourishes me more than you know. The former letters, & the papers you have sent, have all come safely to hand—& I thank you.

I have just returned from a visit of some days to Philadelphia. It is a great materialistic city full of the middling classes, (mechanics, laborers, operatives in factories (both sexes), traders, &c)—in extraordinary physical comfort—700,000 people, & five–sixths of them well–off, in plenty of the best food & clothing, & ample & respectable houses—there are almost no very miserable & vagabond classes or quarters in the city, vast & teeming as it is.

I am now back here at work for the fall & winter—My address is permanently here—I get all your letters & papers safely. Clausen has not yet arrived. I have lately rec'dreceived a paper from Pesth, Hungary, with a feuilleton about my poems.

Farewell, for this time. Walt Whitman