Default Metadata, or override by section

  In this moment the papers received. All right! Heartfully thanks! see note Feb 7 1889 Walt, Whitman, esq Dear Sir: Schmidt, Rudolf

I will postpone no longer to thank you for your kind letter of 7 Dec. It was in my hands two days before the beginning of the new year. Your "leaves of grass" Clausen has already sent me; but the other papers—especially your "democratic vistas"—shall be very welcome. I wonder, that they are not arrived yet, and hope, that they   have not miscarried on the way. This unexpected delay makes me very sorry; my mind is full of your poems, but naturally I won't beginn​ begin​ to write before having in my hands as complete materials as possibly​ possible​ .

Hans Christian Andersen would perhaps not make you very great joy, if you did know him personally. Björnson would be your man, he is a dear friend of mine and coeditor of the periodical. At present he is living in Christiania.

The enclosed portrait is no bad photography, but a photographical portrait is never truly a good one.

Most truly yours Rudolf Schmidt