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Walt Whitman, London, Ontario, Canada, Summer, 1880. Whitman traveled to London, Ontario, Canada on June 3, 1880 to visit his friend, physician, and eventual biographer Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke. He spent the majority of his 3-month stay at Dr. Bucke’s home, located at the London Asylum for the Insane, where Bucke was the superintendent. He visited the studio of the Edy Brothers and had 7 photographs made, this being one of them.