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Walt Whitman to Frederick Locker-Lampson, 28 September [1880]

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Frederick Locker-Lampson, 28 September [1880]
  • Date: September 28, 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.03252
  • 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: Alicia Bones Grace Thomas Eder Jaramillo Kevin McMullen Nicole Gray
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Frederick Locker-Lampson, 28 September [1880]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 24 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.03252.xml (TEI)
 loc.03252.002_large.jpg Niagara Falls America1 Sept:​ 28—

I have been spendin the whole summer in Canada, mostly on the Lakes & St Lawrence river—have had a good time—& it has done me good—have leisurely traveled over 3000 miles land & water—now on my way home to Camden New Jersey, my permanent address—Am now pretty well for a half-paralytic, better than for some years2—

Walt Whitman  loc.03252.001_large.jpg

Notes

  • 1. This postal card is addressed: Frederick Locker | 25 Chesham Street | London S W | England. It is postmarked: Hamilton | Sp 28 | 80 | Canada. [back]
  • 2. Locker-Lampson noted receipt of Whitman's post card on October 13 (Thomas Donaldson, Walt Whitman the Man [New York: Francis P. Harper, 1896], 237). In January 1881, Whitman sent copies of his article in The North American Review, "The Poetry of the Future" (see Whitman's letter to Harry Stafford of January 2, 1881), one of which was to be forwarded to Tennyson. Locker-Lampson acknowledged the gift on January 31. [back]
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