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Walt Whitman to Franklin B. Sanborn, 25 July [1880]

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Franklin B. Sanborn, 25 July [1880]
  • Date: July 25, 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: med.00643
  • Source: The location of the original manuscript is unknown. Miller's transcription is drawn from a transcript by the American Art Association, November 4–5, 1923. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1964), 185. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Alicia Bones Grace Thomas Eder Jaramillo Kevin McMullen Nicole Gray
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Franklin B. Sanborn, 25 July [1880]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 31 January 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: med.00643.xml (TEI)
July 25.1

Should be delighted to accept it [an invitation] and be with you all—but I start to-morrow morning on a three weeks' trip over the Lakes, the St. Lawrence & up the Saguenay—I have been pretty ill but am now better & the doctor thinks the trip will do me good.

Notes

  • 1. Whitman noted sending this post card in his Commonplace Book (Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). [back]
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