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Correspondence

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Title: Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 3 February [1877]

Date: February 3, 1877

Whitman Archive ID: loc.01127

Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 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: Alicia Bones, Grace Thomas, Eder Jaramillo, Kevin McMullen, Nicole Gray, and Kenneth Price



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1929 north 22d St Phila:1
Feb 3

I send the second MS back to-day.2 The first I sent some four or five days ago. I am pretty well for me


WW


Notes:

1. This postcard bears the address: John Burroughs | Esopus-on-Hudson | New York. It is postmarked: Philadelphia | Feb | 3 | 10 PM | Pa. [back]

2. This is a reference to Burroughs's Birds and Poets (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1877). See Walt Whitman's letter to Burroughs on January 24, 1877[back]


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