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]