Visits to Walt Whitman in 1890-1891
By: by two Lancashire friends, J. Johnston, M.D., and J.W. Wallace. With twenty illustrations.
Contributors: Wallace, J. W.; Gable, William F., 1856-1921, former owner.; Traubel, Horace, 1858-1919, former owner.; Lloyd, J. Wm. 1857-1940, former owner.; Carolyn Wells Houghton Whitman Collection (Library of Congress); Walt Whitman Collection (Library of Congress); Charles E. Feinberg Collection of Walt Whitman (Library of Congress)
Publisher: G. Allen & Unwin, ltd.
Published: 1918
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Last years.; Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Friends and associates.; Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: "First published in December 1917; reprinted February 1918."
The present volume consists of Johnston's Visit to Walt Whitman and some of his friends in 1890 (first published in 1898); copies of letters and post-cards from Walt Whitman to J. Johnston and J.W. Wallace, May 29, 1887, to Feb. 6, 1892; and three chapters by J.W. Wallace: Walt Whitman's friends in Lancashire, Visits to Walt Whitman and his friends in 1891, and Whitman's last illness and final messages.