Walt Whitman to Frank H. Ransom, 6 January 1881

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 Camden New Jersey Jan: 6 '81 Dear Sir

Yours of 4th rec'd​ .1 Will send you the books with pleasure—& would mail them now, only I suppose it w'd​ better for me to notify you first of the price, which is $10—

Walt Whitman

I prefer a P.O. money order

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Notes

• 1. Whitman made the following note in his Commonplace Book on February 2: "Sent a set Two Vols: to Frank H Ransom of D Ransom Son & Co: Medicine Warehouse, Buffalo N Y.—He writes (letter rec'd to day), that he sent me a p.o. order for $12.50 on Jan: 22—I write to-day that I have not seen or heard of any such order, but consider it my loss, & send." Below this entry, Whitman added in blue pencil: "the books—rec'd—paid (12.50)" (Daybooks and Notebooks, ed. William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 224). See also Whitman's letter to Ransom of February 2, 1881. [back]