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Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, [4 September 1877]

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I have just been reading your Monday's note for the second time—& will write a line in rejoinder, with my French water pen, moistened out of the gurgling brook, just as I sit here, half shade, half in the warm sun, as I sit here after my lavations.

I am still pretty well,—Still enjoy my natural days here, by the creek—(but they are now drawing to a close)—Nothing new.

—The papers have all arrived I think—the News, with the Plevna battle letter, &c. I have here to day, & am reading with interest. Herby is well & brown—Shall be up in  upa.00030.002_large.jpg good time to be with with my dear neices​ & all of you—I wonder if you have the same splendor of days & nights as we here the week past.

I suppose you will have Edward Carpenter's letter to Herby by this time & will find it indeed cheery & interesting.2

Love to all W. W.

Notes

  • 1. This letter was written shortly before Whitman's return to Camden on September 10, probably on Tuesday, September 4. On September 3 the New York Tribune noted the fighting between the Turks and Russians near Plevna. [back]
  • 2. Carpenter returned to England late in June (see Whitman's letter to John Burroughs on June 22, 1877). [back]
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