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Contradictory statements about when Bucke met Whitman
This article contains two statements which contradict each other.

The paragraph titled "Cosmic consciousness experience" begins with this statement:

"In 1872, after an evening of stimulating conversation with his friend Walt Whitman in the countryside, Richard M Bucke was traveling back to London in a buggy."

A later paragraph titled "Involvement with poetry and literature" includes this statement:

"In Cosmic Consciousness, he notes that his cosmic consciousness experience occurred following a night reading Whitman and Romantic poets.[13] Later, he met Whitman in 1877 in Camden, New Jersey, and the two developed a lasting friendship."

Please clear this up; did he know Whitman in 1872, or not meet him until 1877?