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Walt Whitman to Richard Watson Gilder, 17 November [1880]

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Richard Watson Gilder, 17 November [1880]
  • Date: November 17, 1880
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: prc.00060
  • Source: 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), 195. 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 Anthony Dreesen Grace Thomas Kevin McMullen Nicole Gray
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Richard Watson Gilder, 17 November [1880]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 29 December 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: prc.00060.xml (TEI)
431 Stevens street Camden New Jersey1 Nov:​ 17 My dear friend

I do myself the real pleasure of presenting you with a set of my books—which are sent by same mail with this—I have inscribed Mrs G's name with yours on the fly leaf, & please show her this as a testimony of my remembrance & affection to you both2—

Walt Whitman

I am well for me—have been down two weeks in the Jersey woods—return'd last evening—

Notes

  • 1. This letter is addressed: R W Gilder | office Scribner's Magazine | 743 Broadway | New York City. It is postmarked: Camden | Nov | 17 | N.J.; New-York | Nov 17 | 8 PM | Rec'd. [back]
  • 2. Mrs. Gilder thanked Whitman for the books on November 20 (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Friday, August 10, 1888, 118–119). [back]
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