The Vault at Pfaff's
Whitman, Walt. "Letter to Dr. Le Baron Russell, December 3, 1863." Walt Whitman: The Correspondence. New York: New York University Press. (1961-1-1).
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.