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Walt Whitman to Richard Watson Gilder, 13 June 1878

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Richard Watson Gilder, 13 June 1878
  • Date: June 13, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: prc.00058
  • Source: According to Miller, this telegram is held in the private collection of Rosamond Gilder. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1964), 120. 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 Anthony Dreesen Kevin McMullen
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Richard Watson Gilder, 13 June 1878." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 29 December 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: prc.00058.xml (TEI)
Penna Depot W Phila June 13 1878

TELEGRAM.

To Watson Gilder | at Scribner | 743 Bway​

Am coming on to B[ryant]'s funeral1 Come to Johnstons Jewelery Store one fifty Bowery at nine oclock a m for me if convenient

Walt Whitman

Notes

  • 1. The decision to go to New York was impromptu (Specimen Days, ed. Floyd Stovall [New York: New York University Press, 1963], 165–167). William Cullen Bryant was buried on June 14. After the funeral Whitman attended a reception and tea given by Gilder (Specimen Days, 329). [back]
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