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Herbert J. Bathgate to Walt Whitman, 2 July 1880

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  • Title: Herbert J. Bathgate to Walt Whitman, 2 July 1880
  • Date: July 2, 1880
  • Creator(s): Herbert J. Bathgate
  • Whitman Archive ID: man.00045
  • Source: Charles Sixsmith Collection at the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Alicia Meyer Eder Jaramillo Nima Najafi Kianfar Nicole Gray Stefan Schöberlein
  • Cite this page: Bathgate, Herbert J.. "Herbert J. Bathgate to Walt Whitman, 2 July 1880." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 15 February 2026. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: man.00045.xml (TEI)
 man_ej.00118_large.jpg Oakenholt Hall nr​ Flint: England 2nd July 1880 Dear Walt Whitman

I am very grateful for your kindness in sending me so many interesting papers from time to time.1 The article on Emerson has touched me very nearly. It is great and good—

My object in writing now is merely to thank you for your thoughtfulness & to call your attention to my change of address.

With affection & respect Herbert J. Bathgate  man_ej.00119_large.jpg

Notes

  • 1. Herbert J. Bathgate was a British author and friend of the art critic John Ruskin. His essay "Ouida" was advertised in the 1881 Trübner & Co. reprint of Whitman's preface to his first edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman commented on Bathgate later in life: "Bathgate writes genuinely, considerately: he has no affectations" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Monday, January 28, 1889). [back]
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