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Elizabeth Ford to Walt Whitman, 13 June 1883

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  • Title: Elizabeth Ford to Walt Whitman, 13 June 1883
  • Date: June 13, 1883
  • Creator(s): Elizabeth Ford
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.02092
  • Source: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. 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 Stefan Schöberlein Nima Najafi Kianfar Nicole Gray
  • Cite this page: Ford, Elizabeth. "Elizabeth Ford to Walt Whitman, 13 June 1883." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 03 March 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.02092.xml (TEI)
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  —Leeds—England 13th June 1883 Dear Mr. Whitman

I am writing to ask you to send me the two volumes of your writings which you sent my sister a few months ago. They are "Specimen Days & Collect" & "Leaves of Grass". I enclose a post office order, if it is not the right sum please tell me. I hope  loc.02092.004_large.jpg  loc.02092.002_large.jpg it is not troubling you to ask you to send them. Edward Carpenter told us it was the best way to get them.

I have had the English Rossetti edition a long time, but this one I want is beautiful, & I feel as if I cannot do without it, for I can't say what your words have been to me nor how glad & thankful I am that I have known them. I hope you are better than you were. I am very sorry that you should suffer.

Believe me Yours Bessie Ford

The P.O. order is payable from Bessie Ford, the above address.

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