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Walt Whitman to Kenningale Cook, 11 February 1886

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Kenningale Cook, 11 February 1886
  • Date: February 11, 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: brn.00011
  • Source: John Hay Library, Brown University. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.

    Notes for this letter were created by Whitman Archive staff and/or were derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller, 6 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), and supplemented or updated by Whitman Archive staff.
  • Contributors to digital file: Grace Thomas Nima Najafi Kianfar Elizabeth Lorang Nicole Gray
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Kenningale Cook, 11 February 1886." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 09 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: brn.00011.xml (TEI)
 brn.00002.001_large.jpg 328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey U S America Feb:​ 11 '86 My dear K C

I send you the two Volumes, same mail with this,1 (same address as this note)—The price is one pound two shillings, which please remit me in post office order—I am ab't​ as usual of late, bodily disabled, but in good heart.

Walt Whitman  brn.00002.002_large.jpg

Correspondent:
Kenningale Robert Cook (1845–1886) was editor of the Dublin University Magazine, and he was married to popular Victorian novelist Mabel Collins (Marion Meade, Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth [New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1980], 390). Cook was also the author of The Fathers of Jesus: A Study of the Lineage of the Christian Doctrine and Traditions, 2 vols. (London: K. Paul, Trench & Co., 1886).

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