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Note: N4914 Emigrated to USA with parents and at least two female siblings.
Washington social correspondent for the Pittsburgh Post.
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Gave address as 900 19th Street, Washington, USA, on 27 July 1927, when she stayed in the UK with her cousin Colin Cameron.
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Presumably this is is about her:
“She is the daughter of the late James Hunter, MA, for quarter of a century rector of the Banff Academy, a school which prepared youths for the University of ...”
(The Part Taken by Women in American History. John A. Logan, Mary Simmerson Cunningham Logan.1912. p 865.)
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I knew Walt Whitman, although my knowledge of him was only that of a shy and wondering, albeit a worshiping, child, for I had come from North of the Tweed, where from earliest childhood we had been taught to worship our intellectuals — our Burns, our Scott and our Carlyle — as we worshipped none other of our idols.
Footnote: James Hunter (1818-1894) left his calling card with Walt Whitman some time in April or May 1887, as the poet pasted it without comment in his Daybook.
(“’I Knew Walt Whitman’ by Susan Hunter Walker (1864-1933 [sic])”, James Hunter’s daughter, first published in Walt Whitman review: Volume 27. 1980.)
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In the poet Walt Whitman’s daybook was a calling card with the following written in pencil (not in WW’s hand):
James Hunter,
Vienna, Fairfax Co.,
Va
Bothwellaugh [sic]
(Daybooks and Notebooks of Walt Whitman. NYU Press 2007. Page 417.)
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