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Walt Whitman to Albert Johnston, 27 March 1882

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Albert Johnston, 27 March 1882
  • Date: March 27, 1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.02428
  • 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.

    Notes for this letter were created by Whitman Archive staff and/or were derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller, 6 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), and supplemented or updated by Whitman Archive staff.
  • Contributors to digital file: Stefan Schoeberlein Nima Najafi Kianfar Eder Jaramillo Nicole Gray
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Albert Johnston, 27 March 1882." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 04 December 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.02428.xml (TEI)
 loc.02428.001_large.jpg March 27 '82 Dear Al1

First—Love to you and all, May, Bertha, Grace, Kittie & Harry—Second, sorry to hear your mother has been down sick & hope the Florida jaunt will help her, (as it probably will)—

—Third, it was I no doubt that sold the Cumberland Street Brooklyn house to Wineburgh2—What is it your friend wants me to do?—Send me word when the coast is all clear, & every thing lovely, & I will come on to Mott Haven for a week's visit—I am well as usual

Walt Whitman

I write this down in the woods in Jersey but go up to Camden to-morrow3—

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Notes

  • 1. The son of the jeweler, John H. Johnston (see the letter from Walt Whitman to Mannahatta Whitman of June 22–26, 1878). [back]
  • 2. Whitman deleted the following words: "& will do any thing." On the Cumberland Street house, see the letter from Whitman to Frederick Baker of April 24, 1860. [back]
  • 3. But see the letter from Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist of March 31, 1882. [back]
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