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Walt Whitman to Henry Festing Jones, 12 July [1878]

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Henry Festing Jones, 12 July [1878]
  • Date: July 12, [1878]
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: tex.00433
  • Source: T. E. Hanley Collection, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1964), 128. 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 Henry Festing Jones, 12 July [1878]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 24 November 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: tex.00433.xml (TEI)
Camden New Jersey US America1 July 122

Your letter of June 20 reach'd me, with enclosure—thanks. I have to-day forwarded by mail, to same address as this card, my Two Vols. Please notify me (by postal card will do) soon as they reach you safely.

Walt Whitman

Notes

  • 1. This letter bears the address: Henry Festing Jones | 1 Craven Hill Gardens W | London W | England. It is postmarked: Camden | Jul | 12 | N.J.; London N. W. | (?) 7 | Paid | (?) 78. [back]
  • 2. See Whitman's letter to Jones of April 29, 1878. Whitman noted receipt of $9.70 from Jones on the preceding day (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). [back]
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