Camden New Jersey U S America1
Dec. 8 1883
In compliance with your late request & remittance2
(safely received—thanks) I forward my two Vols. poems & prose—same
mail with this—same address. Will you kindly notify me by postal card soon as
you get them safely?
Walt Whitman
Notes
- 1. This letter is addressed:
Isabella Ford | Adel Grange | Leeds | England. It is postmarked: Camden N.J. |
Dec. 8 | Philadelphia | Dec. 8 1883. [back]
- 2. Elizabeth (Bessie) and
Isabella Ford, English friends of Edward Carpenter, ordered books on June 13, 1883. On June 27, Whitman noted sending "L
of G & S.D. (two vols) to Bessie Ford" (Daybooks and
Notebooks, ed. William White [New York: New York University Press,
1977], 2:325). Six months later Isabella ordered the same books for herself.
Though no letter of receipt is currently known, Whitman marked the order "paid"
(Daybooks and Notebooks, 2:325). [back]