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Walt Whitman to Katharine Hillard, 8 March [1877]

 loc.02312.001_large.jpg Dear Miss Hillard

Come by all means—I shall be in at 8 p m Saturday, expecting you—& failing then (any thing preventing you) shall be in at 11 a m on Sunday—

If you come Saturday afternoon we will promise not to make company of you—Mrs. Johnston & all will be delighted to receive you too—(& you shall have a cup of tea & a biscuit to refresh)—Come—

Walt Whitman  loc.02312.002_large.jpg  loc.02312.003_large.jpg  loc.02312.004_large.jpg

Notes

  • 1. Whitman was staying with John H. Johnston in March, 1877; see the letter from Whitman to Anne Gilchrist on March 4, 1877, and the letter from Whitman to John Burroughs on March 13, 1877. Mrs. Amelia Johnston, John H. Johnston's first wife, died on March 26, 1877; see the letter from Whitman to Anne Gilchrist on March 23. [back]
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