Life & Letters

Correspondence

About this Item

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.

Contributors to digital file: Alicia Meyer, Stefan Schöberlein, Kirsten Clawson, and Nicole Gray



page image
image 1
page image
image 2
page image
image 3
page image
image 4


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


Notes:

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]


Comments?

Published Works | In Whitman's Hand | Life & Letters | Commentary | Resources | Pictures & Sound

Support the Archive | About the Archive

Distributed under a Creative Commons License. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price, editors.