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  Walt Whitman, Camden, N.J.

I write to inform you that I have expunged from the forthcoming Edition of my "Talks with Emerson" a pargraph referring to yourself, which I have learned was offensive to you. It should not have been printed. Time was, perhaps, when the publication of an eccentricity could not have injured you. Perhaps, indeed the effect would have been to the contrary. Such was my feeling I remember in regard to the effect of the incident when I mentioned it. I have learned with regret that it has caused you pain.

Your utterance was a noble help to me in days when I sorely needed it, and I would not bring one shadow across your brow.

Yours with high respect, Charles J Woodbury

I am only here temporarily; my permanent address is,—

#123, California St., San Francisco, California.

(Dictated.)

    See notes July 6 1891 also see note July 11 1891