Letter to Dr. Le Baron Russell, December 3, 1863

Whitman, Walt. "Letter to Dr. Le Baron Russell, December 3, 1863." Walt Whitman: The Correspondence 1, (1961): 188.

Type

manuscript

Genre

correspondence

Abstract

A short transcript from Whitman to Dr. Le Baron Russell accounting for Whitman’s desire to continue helping wounded soldiers.

To Dr. Le Baron Russell
[12.3. 1863]
Transcript.

. . . I have told you how young & how American they mostly are—so on my own account I shall continue as a Missionary among them as surely as I live—& shall continue for years . . . I reject none of course—not a rebel wounded nor blacks nor any when I find them suffering and dying.