
It is difficult to express the gratification I have felt in looking over the pages of the volume you so kindly sent me. These pages mirror a life, and the meaning of a life—rather should I say, not a life, but life, for the lines which fill them express, not particulars, but universals. On this account, future generations will not let die the contents of this book; and that I have it from him who wrote it is a peculiar pleasure to me.
Believe me, Most gratefully yours D. G. Brinton To Walt Whitman.