Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 8 April [1879]

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Title: Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 8 April [1879]
Date: April 8, 1879
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02169
Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, 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.

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Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 8 April [1879]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 23 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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loc.02169.001_large.jpg Camden1 April 82

I leave here to-morrow Wednesday in the 2 p m train for N Y —to report at Mr J's 150 Bowery—All well—

W W

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1. This postal card is addressed: Herbert Gilchrist | 112 Madison Av: | New York City. It is postmarked: Philadelphia | Apr | 8 | (?); F | 4–8 | 6 P(?) | (?). [back]
2. Whitman left for New York on April 9, 1879, and remained there until June 14 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). See also Specimen Days, ed. Floyd Stovall (New York: New York University Press, 1963), 190–202. While Whitman was at John H. Johnston's home in New York, G.M. Ottinger painted his portrait; see Charles N. Elliot, Walt Whitman as Man, Poet and Friend (Boston: R.G. Badger, 1915), 150–151. [back]