Walt Whitman to Edward Carpenter, 27 November [1877]

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Title: Walt Whitman to Edward Carpenter, 27 November [1877]
Date: November 27, 1877
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: duk.00743
Source: The Trent Collection of Walt Whitman Manuscripts, Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 103. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Alicia Bones Elizabeth Lorang Anthony Dreesen Kevin McMullen
Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Edward Carpenter, 27 November [1877]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 21 November 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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Camden New Jersey1 U S America Nov 27

Your card of Nov 13 rec'd —have to-day mailed Mr Vines'2 books—Your card of a week or ten days previous rec'd —Many & sincere thanks—

I still keep pretty well, & every thing goes on with me much as usual—Geo: Stafford has been very ill with hemorrhages from the stomach (hematemesis) but is over it, & out, though feeble3—the rest well—the Gilchrists are all well—Mrs G is here with us in Camden today to dinner4—We often speak of you—

W W

Notes

1. This letter bears the address: Edward Carpenter | Cobden Road | Chesterfield | Derbyshire | England. It is postmarked: Camden | Nov | 27 | N.J.;(?) | De 10 | 77. [back]
2. On this date Whitman sent the 1876 edition to Sidney H. Vines, a lecturer at Christ's College, Cambridge (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). [back]
3. See Whitman's November 11, 1877 letter to Anne Gilchrist. [back]
4. Whitman also mentioned this visit in his Commonplace Book. [back]