John Reed (1887 1920 American journalist who observed the Russian Revolution in 1917 and wrote of it in his Ten Days That Shook the World an organizer of the Communist Labor Party in the United States fled to Russia buried in the Kremlin. Rare Tls reed on his letterhead, lp 4to [n.p.], May 23 [n.y.], to fellow author and Whitman associate Horace Traubel (1858-1919 In part sorry that I wont be able to come to the Whitman affair I am not well and the doctor has told me I must get out in the country So Im going to beat it tomorrow Thanks awfully for your hospitable letter