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Walt Whitman to Sidney Lanier, 27 May [1878]

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Sidney Lanier, 27 May [1878]
  • Date: May 27, 1878
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: jhu.00002
  • Source: Lanier Collection, The Johns Hopkins 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. Ted Genoways (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004), vol. 7, and supplemented or updated by Whitman Archive staff.
  • Contributors to digital file: Alicia Bones Nima Najafi Kianfar Eder Jaramillo Nicole Gray
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Sidney Lanier, 27 May [1878]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: jhu.00002.xml (TEI)
 jhu.00002.001_large.jpg Camden New Jersey1

May 27—I have to-day sent by mail, same address as this card, my Volume Leaves of Grass—Please notify me (by postal card will do) soon as it reaches you safely2

Walt Whitman  jhu.00002.002_large.jpg

Notes

  • 1. This post card bears the address: Sidney Lanier | 33 Denmead Street | Baltimore | Md: It is postmarked: Camden | May | 27 | N.J. [back]
  • 2. On May 5, 1878, Lanier informed Whitman that he had discovered a copy of Leaves of Grass in Bayard Taylor's library and had "spent a night of glory and delight upon it." Now "among your most earnest lovers," he ordered a copy of the book (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Friday, May 25, 1888, 208). Lanier's ardor was short-lived. [back]
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