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Walt Whitman to [G. W. Harris], 31 March 1881

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to [G. W. Harris], 31 March 1881
  • Date: March 31, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: hyb.00012
  • Source: University of Buffalo; Cornell University. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Ted Genoways (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004), 61. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kirsten Clawson Nima Najafi Kianfar Stefan Schoeberlein Nicole Gray
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to [G. W. Harris], 31 March 1881." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 26 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: hyb.00012.xml (TEI)
431 Stevens Street  
 Camden New Jersey March 31 '81​ Dear Sir1—

In compliance with your request in letter of 28th2 I this day send you by mail to same address as this card my two Volumes Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets (Memoranda of the war embodied in latter Vol:​ ) The price is $10, which please send me here by p.o. order.

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Notes

  • 1. Whitman recorded an order of $10 filled on March 30 for "G Wm Harris, Ass't Lib: Cornell University"; this is the only order on that approximate date (Daybooks and Notebooks, ed. William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:235). [back]
  • 2. This letter is now lost. [back]
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