Title: William Mills to Walt Whitman, 15 February 1880
Date: February 15, 1880
Whitman Archive ID: loc.05991
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St. Louis.1
Feb. 15th 1880
Mr Whitman
Dear Sir
I received your book and photograph, I thank you very much indeed for both of them.
I have enjoyed reading your book very much as it gave me a very different opinion of the private soldier, from that which I before possessed.
I received your book some three weeks ago when I was preparing for my half yearly examinations and as I was very busy I could not get time to read it and I didn't want to write until I had done so.
Yours affectionately
William Mills
1. This letter was crossed out and repurposed by Whitman. On the back he wrote a series of notes. [back]