2 letters from [the Rev.] Will Hayes, a Unitarian minister, who founded the Order of the Great Companions, a church promoting the search for a world religion and revering the prophets of all faiths, which took its name from a line of poetry by Whitman; Hayes was also the author of Walt Whitman: the Prophet of the New Era (1920).
Contents relate to: his hope that Wallace will one day write a book on Whitman; a forthcoming exam he is to sit; books he hopes to buy; the volume Notes and Fragments [ed. R.M. Bucke, 1899] given by Wallace as a gift; his theories about Whitman and the genesis of Leaves of Grass; the works of Thomas Traherne, the 17th-century mystic, and the parallels he finds there with Whitman; Professor [Emory] Holloway's books; his own manuscript on which Wallace has commented; a study of Whitman by Elbert Hubbard.
Dated at: Chatham [Kent].
1186/1/23/2 includes envelope.