Walt Whitman to John Swinton, 12 March [1875]

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Title: Walt Whitman to John Swinton, 12 March [1875]
Date: March 12, 1875
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: prc.00031
Source: Private collection of Rollo G. Silver. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 325. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to John Swinton, 12 March [1875]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 25 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
Source File: prc.00031.xml (TEI)

431 Stevens st.
cor West.
Camden,
N. Jersey. March 12.1

Yours rec'd —Come by all means—nothing very new—bad spells continued, & then a let up—(pretty much the same old story)—Telegraph to me about coming—

1.
This postcard bears the address, "John Swinton | 134 E. 38th Street | New York City." It is postmarked: "Camden | (?)| 12 | N.J."

This postcard can be plausibly assigned to 1875, since Swinton visited Whitman within a few weeks; see Whitman's April 1, 1875 letter to John Burroughs.
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