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 Miller would have been thought insufferably vulgar if he had not been a notoriety: as it was, everyone paid court to him." But various letters and references in Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden show that Miller returned Lord Houghton's courtesies in America, in 1875, and attempted to bring about a meeting between his English friend and Whitman. Furthermore, Miller speaks of traveling with Lord Houghton in Greece; and in a note of the Bear Edition he gives interesting hints at the sort of figure that he himself made in English country life:

With so much cordiality manifesting itself abroad and so little at home, it is not strange that Miller,