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Walt Whitman to Samuel B. Haskell, 9 September 1863

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Samuel B. Haskell, 9 September 1863
  • Date: September 9, 1863
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: nyh.00003
  • Source: New-York Historical Society. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 146. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Tim Jackson Vanessa Steinroetter Alyssa Olson
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Samuel B. Haskell, 9 September 1863." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 20 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: nyh.00003.xml (TEI)
Washington Sept 9 1863 Dear Sir,1

Your friendly letter acknowledging mine & telling me more of the previous life of Erastus was duly rec'd. Dear boy, death has not blotted out my love for him, the remembrance will be not sad only but sweet. You will either see me or hear of me in Brooklyn at my mother's, Louisa Whitman, Portland avenue, 4th door north of Myrtle, about two miles from Fulton ferry (Myrtle av cars)—

Walt Whitman

I send love to Erastus' mother & brothers & sisters—

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