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Rh other matters, and congratulating him that he had not been misled by the Whitman legend, after thanking me for my corrections, wrote:

Principal W. F. Gordy wrote me early in the summer of 1899:

And the edition whose preface is dated September, 1899, does not.

Mrs. A. H. Burton wrote me on October 20, 1900, as follows:

Though Prof. John Fiske had never mentioned Whitman in his books, I knew that he had in an address at Astoria, in 1892, and therefore sent him the same manuscripts as Principal Gordy, and on July 26, 1900, he wrote me as follows: