Walt Whitman to Mrs. Vine Coburn, 7 March 1882

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Title: Walt Whitman to Mrs. Vine Coburn, 7 March 1882
Date: March 7, 1882
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: prc.00111
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Notes for this letter were created by Whitman Archive staff and/or were derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller, 6 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), and supplemented or updated by Whitman Archive staff.
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Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Mrs. Vine Coburn, 7 March 1882." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 19 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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prc_km.00010.jpg Camden New Jersey March 7 '82 Dear Madam

Returning here last evening I have mailed to you the two Volumes of my books.1 Would you please notify me soon as they reach you safely?

Walt Whitman

Correspondent:
Mrs. Vine Coburn was a member of a distinguished Maine family; see Walt Whitman Review 15 (1969): 59n.

1. Whitman sent the two-volume set after a two-week stay with the family of Harry Stafford (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). [back]