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Title: Walt Whitman to Eustace Conway, 22 February [1881]
Date: February 22, 1881
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01312
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 derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller, 6 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), and supplemented, updated, or created by Whitman Archive staff as appropriate.
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431 Stevens Street
Camden New Jersey
Feb: 22 '81
My dear Eustace Conway1
I am sorry I was out when you called—have been hoping you would come again—Are you going to stay in America? If so I shall be on the look out for you & trust you will the same for me—
Walt Whitman
Notes:
1. The uncle of Moncure D. Conway; see Autobiography: Memories and Experiences of Moncure Daniel Conway (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904), 1:38. According to a jotting in Whitman's Commonplace Book, Conway was associated with Bangs & Stetson in New York (Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). [back]