Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 3 January [1880]

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Title: Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 3 January [1880]
Date: January 3, 1880
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: upa.00190
Source: Walt Whitman Collection, 1842–1957, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1964), 172–173. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
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Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 3 January [1880]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 21 November 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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St. Louis, Missouri U S America1 Jan 3d—evening

I leave early to-morrow (Sunday) morning to go straight through east—due in Camden Monday evening, 7:30—Have been quite well the last three weeks, & am so now—All the folks well2—

W W

Notes

1. This postal card is addressed: Mrs Gilchrist | 1 Elm Villas Elm Row | Heath Street Hampstead | London | England. It is postmarked: Saint Louis | Jan | (?). [back]
2. Anne Gilchrist replied to this post card on January 25: "Welcome was your post card announcing recovered health & return to Camden! . . . I wish one of those old red Market Ferry Cars were going to land you at our door once more! What you would have to tell us of Western scenes & life!" (The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman, ed. Thomas B. Harned [New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918], 190). [back]