Title: Walt Whitman to Mary Whitall Smith, 11 December [1883]
Date: December 11, 1883
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01338
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.
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Camden
Dec 11
Dear friend
Your father's kind note & yours recd—Yes with pleasure—I'll be there by 6 Saturday, Evn'g,1
Walt Whitman
1. Whitman was with the Smiths from December 15, Saturday, to December 17 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). [back]