Feinberg/Whitman
Box 34  Folder 34
Literary File Prose "On Walter Scott" [1880's].  A.MS.draft. (DCN133)
Includes partial verso letter from Charles W. Dailey, undated.When WW was born, 1819, Walter Scott was at the meridian of his frame. "Ivanhoe" was just out an not long afterward "Quentin Durward" both of them masterpieces of historic and literary emotional narratives. (Scott has been throughout a great and attractive character to WW, especially in his canny personality and from this "Border Minstrelsy" Ballad.) Dr, Bucke well describes in his biography of WW the poet has been fed firstly on Long Island scenery and the real sea-shore and then on New York and Babylon city life with southern experiences in the secession was western travel; but books have had not a little to do with it. Curiously these Border Minstrelsy ballads were the first start of all.I have had the extreme
pleasure of receiving personal
autograph letters and poems from
the following poets and I should be
deeply indebted if you would favor
me with yours.
Oliver W Holmes.      John G. Whittier
Joaquin Miller.           E Clarence Steadman
Jas R Lowell.              Eugene Field
John B. OReilly          TL Stanton
Trusting that I may be so favored
I Remain
Most Respectfully Yours
Chas W Dailey[*857*]
ON WALTER SCOTT; a note. A.MS. on verso of discarded letter.
(1p. 15 x 20 cm.)
"Scott has been throughout a great and attractive character to Walt
Whitman, especially in his canny personality and from his Border Minstrelsy
Ballads. As Dr. Bucke well describes in his Biography of Walt Whitman the
poet has been fed firstly on Long Island Scenery and the real sea-shore...
but books have not had a little to do with it. Curiously those Border
Minstrelsy Ballads were the first start of all."
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