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Walt Whitman to Ruth Stafford, 29 April [1881]

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Ruth Stafford, 29 April [1881]
  • Date: April 29, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.04254
  • 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 Ruth Stafford, 29 April [1881]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 25 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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 loc_gt.00003_large.jpg Camden Friday noon April 291 Dear Ruth

Yours rec'd​ & accordingly I will not come down now until I hear from you—Pretty warm dry weather here & I suppose you have the same—The woods must be coming out—have you gathered any arbutus?

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Give my love to your father & mother, & to Harry, Ed & all. I am sorry the mother is sick—hope when this comes she will be all right again—I am about half-and-half, have had several little jobs of writing to do—the hot weather makes me hanker for the country—I see Horner & Burr occasionally—How is Hinieken?2 Good by, Ruthy dear

W.W.

—I had written a postal before I rec'd yours postponing till Tuesday—but now I will postpone until I hear from you—

Notes

  • 1. Whitman referred to this letter in his Commonplace Book, "postponing visit until I hear from them" (Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). [back]
  • 2. For Horner, see the letter from Whitman to Harry Stafford of January 2, 1881, and for Hieniken (not Hinieken), see the letter from Whitman to Harry Stafford of November 12, 1880. [back]
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