431 Stevens Street
Camden, New Jersey
Jan 14 '80
After I left you1 I went to Colorado, & there & in Missouri have spent the time since—came back here about a week ago—I sent you a little Volume—also two little pictures—You take the one you prefer & give the other to Linton—Send me word if they come safe. I am all right in health.
Walt Whitman
Notes
- 1. John P. Usher, Jr., was
the son of Judge Usher, with whom Whitman had stayed at Lawrence, Kansas (see
the letter from Walt Whitman to Louisa Whitman of September 12–13, 1879). On the same day he sent to the son a
copy of Memoranda During the War and two photographs, one
of which was intended for Linton J. Usher, probably the brother of Judge Usher
(Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of
Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). [back]