Camden New Jersey1
Oct 23
I am well, for me—Have been down at the old Jersey farm by the pond nearly all summer—start again to-morrow2—Am writing some—Shall come to N Y to lecture—Al: I got your letter down in the country four days after due—I return the Goethe Club ticket—
W W
H—l of a gale here this morning—great destruction—
Notes
- 1. This letter bears the
address: J H Johnston | Jeweler | 150 Bowery cor Broome St | New York City. It
is postmarked: Philadelphia | Oct | 23 | 5 PM | Pa.; New York | (?) | 24 |
12(?)M | 78 | Recd. [back]
- 2. In 1878 Whitman was with
the Staffords from October 5 to 7, 10 to 12, 16 to 21, and 24 to 28. He
mentioned "the furious gale & storm" in his Commonplace Book (Charles E.
Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of
Congress, Washington, D.C.). Herbert Gilchrist was also with the Staffords; see
the letter from Anne Gilchrist to him of October 10 (Feinberg), and the letter
from Whitman to Anne Gilchrist of November 10,
1878. [back]