Bài 4 - Greetings & signatures in
email (Phần chào hỏi & chữ ký
trong email)-phần 3
Còn bức thư thứ hai được đề cập dưới đây là bức thư thể
hiện sự thông cảm Joaquin Miller viết cho Walt Whitman
khi nhận được tin ông bị ốm:
Revere
House,
Boston
May 27, '75.
My dear Walt Whitman:
Your kind letter is received and the sad news
of your ill health makes this pleasant
weather even seem tiresome and out of
place. I had hoped to find you the same hale
and whole man I had met in New York a few
years ago and now I shall perhaps find you
bearing a staff all full of pain and trouble.
However my dear friend as you have sung
from within and not from without I am sure
you will be able to bear whatever comes with
that beautiful faith and philosophy you have
ever given us in your great and immortal
chants.
I am coming to see you very soon as you
request; but I cannot say to-day or set to-
morrow for I am in the midst of work and am
not altogether my own master. But I will
come and we will talk it all over together. In
the meantime, remember that whatever
befall you you have the perfect love and
sympathy of many if not all of the noblest
and loftiest natures of the two hemispheres.
My dear friend and fellow toiler good by.
Yours faithfully,
Joaquin Miller.
Phần trên được trích từ "With Walt Whitman in Camden,"
do Horace Traubel. Bản quyền tác giả, 1905, 1906, bởi
Doubleday, Page
& Co.