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Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 3 January [1880]

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]
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