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Walt Whitman to Unidentified Correspondent, 24 November 1891

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Unidentified Correspondent, 24 November 1891
  • Date: November 24, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: hun.00040
  • Source: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. 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.
  • Contributors to digital file: Ryan Furlong Amanda J. Axley Cristin Noonan Stephanie Blalock
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Unidentified Correspondent, 24 November 1891." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 25 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: hun.00040.xml (TEI)
 hun.00040.001_large.jpg Camden N J1— Nov: 24 '91

Best thanks my friend for y'r kind invitation,2 but I am in an almost entirely disabled condition & must decline—

Affectionate remembrances to you Walt Whitman  hun.00040.002_large.jpg Walt Whitman 1891

Correspondent:
As yet we have no information about this correspondent.

Notes

  • 1. Whitman wrote this letter on stationery printed with the following notice from the Boston Evening Transcript: "From the Boston Eve'g Transcript, May 7, '91.—The Epictetus saying, as given by Walt Whitman in his own quite utterly dilapidated physical case is, a 'little spark of soul dragging a great lummux of corpse-body clumsily to and fro around.'" [back]
  • 2. This communication has not been located. [back]
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