Richard Maurice Bucke (1837-1902)
March 18th, 2009 | by Squire | published in Associated Figures, Writers
The remarkable career of Richard Maurice Bucke ended suddenly on the cold morning of February 19, 1902. In his 65 years, Bucke had been many things to many people: an innovative doctor of psychiatry, a prospector, a confidant and literary executor to Walt Whitman, but to Emily Chesley, Bucke was a mystic with one foot. [...]