
Your "the Poet as a Craftsman" seems the best statement possible of the modern scientific American point of view—as it certainly is the highest & deepest (complimentary) statement of my theory & practise in L of G—I only rec'd it an hour or so ago—so reserve most of what I have to say for another letter.—
—If you have them to spare, can you send copies by mail to following?
- Wm M Rossetti, 5 Endsleigh Gardens London N W Eng
- Prof. Edward Dowden, Temple Road, Winstead, Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland.
- T W Rolleston, Dalgany, County Wicklow, Ireland
- Lord Alfred Tennyson, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, Eng.
- J. Addington Symonds, Davos, Platz, Switzerland
- Edward Carpenter, Millthorpe near Chesterfield, Eng.
- Ernest Rhys, 59 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, Eng
- Dr Karl Knortz, 540 East 155th St, New York City
- G. C. Macaulay, Rugby, England.
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- Richard Watson Gilder, Century office, Union Square, New York City
- Wm D O'Connor, Life Saving Service, Washington D C
- John Burroughs, West Park, Ulster Co. New York
- Edmund C Stedman, author, New York City
- Dr. R M Bucke, Asylum, London, Ontario, Canada
- James Knowles, 1 Paternoster Square, London E C Eng:
—I am getting along middling well. Eyesight improved again ab't as well as of late years—Walking power quite gone—Spirits buoyant & hearty—
—The December sun is shining out wistfully as I finish, & I am going out in my wagon, for a two or three hours drive—
Walt Whitman