William Davidge to Walt Whitman, 14 [December?] 1880

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Title: William Davidge to Walt Whitman, 14 [December?] 1880
Date: December 14, 1880
Creator(s): William Davidge
Whitman Archive ID: loc.05779
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Cite this page: Davidge, William. "William Davidge to Walt Whitman, 14 [December?] 1880." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 03 March 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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loc_no.00020_large.jpg Buffalo NY.1 Decr 14, 1880. My dear Mr. Whitman

I am trying my best to make up for the loss of my collection of Autographs a year or two since

Will you oblige me with yours and anything you can spare either Literary, Musical or dramatic and confer a favour on

My dear Sir Yours respy Wm Davidge

PS. My address in Brooklyn is 132 Pacific St. I shall be here all this loc_no.00019_large.jpg loc_ej.01014.jpg week. Rochester N.Y next week

address W. Davidge "All the Rage" combination

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1. This two-page letter has been crossed out, and Whitman wrote on the back of both pages. One of the notes is part of a prose draft titled "Poetry in America—Shakspere—the Future." [back]