Title: Walt Whitman to Frederic Almy, 30 October 1880
Date: October 30, 1880
Whitman Archive ID: buf.00001
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Camden New Jersey
Oct: 30 '801
I to-day forward by mail (same address as this card) my two Vols: according to your letter (enc rec'd: thanks)2—Will you please send me a postal notifying me on their safe arrival?
Walt Whitman
Correspondent:
Frederic Almy was a graduate of
Harvard College, a friend of Jane Addams, and the founder in 1885 of the Saturn
Club in Buffalo.
1. This postcard is addressed: Frederic Almy | 151 Pawtucket street | Lowell Mass:. It is postmarked: CAMDEN | OCT 30 | N.J. ; LOWELL MASS | NOV [1?] | 9AM | CARRIER. [back]
2. Almy sent $10 to Whitman on October 27. [back]