This volume consists of Johnston's Visit to Walt Whitman and some of his friends in 1890 (first published in 1898); copies of letters and post-cards from Walt Whitman to J. Johnston and J. W. Wallace, May 29, 1887, to February 6, 1892; and three chapters by J. W. Wallace: Walt Whitman's friends in Lancashire, Visits to Walt Whitman and his friends in 1891, and Whitman's last illness and final messages.