1309 Fifth av. 2d house south
of 86th street
New York
June 26 P M
Dear John & 'Sula
I got in all right before sundown—Still keep well, (& all the better for my
Esopus trip—& the berries, &c.)1
—Yesterday went on a sail down the
bay to Sandy Hook with some Sorosis ladies & only a few men—a real
sea-sail, sea-breeze &c—(I went up in the Pilot house most of the time
with the pilots)—had dinner on board—I enjoyed it, but was pretty
tired—got in before dark—
—Shall stay here a few days longer—find it hard to get away,—John, I
send you a slip cut from the Tribune—
Walt
Notes
- 1. Whitman went to New
York to attend the funeral of William Cullen Bryant on June 14, 1878, and stayed
with John H. Johnston, a jeweler and old friend. As the letter indicates,
Whitman paid a visit to John Burroughs before he returned to New York, where he
remained until July 10. See Walt Whitman, The
Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York
University Press, 1964), 3:120–128. [back]