
I fear you do not fully appreciate my relations to the Springfield Repub-people anent the W. W article.
There has been a good deal of writing about it, between them & me—and
about two weeks ago I sent on
a red-hot interview of my own with H W Beecher. Well: they didn't "bite" at the HWB-MSS—it was a trifle
too warm & cut both ways Blaine-&anti-Blaine but the managing editor quietly says "We are still
waiting for that long-promised article on Walt Whitman"—
I thereupon promised it again within a week, & now
they (the Spr.
Repub folks) have a right to think I am a d—d,
colossal & continental liar (which, en passant, I am
not.)
Now to the point—I feel bound to get up that article PDQ.
And I want you to go at it or let me have my MSS. so I can get it off by next Saturday night. This is fair—& I don't want to keep bothering you about it.
I am hard at work at the Law— We all enjoyed your Sunday visit—
I wd feel much encouraged if I cd hear your gray goose quill was pointing toward Massachussetts
Thine as ever— James M Scovel
