
Luke Batterham
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WALT WHITMAN BASKS IN PRAISE: Harry D. Hughes, his correspondent had written of his Prose Works of Walt Whitman in the February number of Leisure Moments 'in superlatives' (Edwin Haviland Miller, Walt Whitman: The Correspondence, iv, 1964, p. 67 fn; where a brief summary only of the card is given). Edward Stratton Holloway, who sent Whitman Hughes's appreciative review, was a painter specializing in coastal views, who also worked for forty-six years as Art Director of the publishers J.B. Lippincott & Co, designing and decorating many of their books himself.