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Walt Whitman to C. Oscar Gridley, 30 August 1886

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to C. Oscar Gridley, 30 August 1886
  • Date: August 30, 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.02240
  • 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.
  • Contributors to digital file: Stefan Schöberlein Ian Faith Kyle Barton Nicole Gray
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to C. Oscar Gridley, 30 August 1886." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 09 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.02240.xml (TEI)
 loc.02240.001_large.jpg 328 Mickle street1 Camden New Jersey U S America Aug: 30 '86—

Thanks for "Notes on America"—safely rec'd & read with interest by me. I consider your Carlyle to be as much a democrat as anybody—more than a good many accepted ones—I am much the same as when you saw me last—pulled a little lower down perhaps

Walt Whitman  loc.02240.002_large.jpg

Correspondent:
C. Oscar Gridley of London was the secretary of the Carlyle Society and had called on Whitman in April 1884. He had contributed to William Michael Rossetti and Herbert Gilchrist's fundraiser for Whitman in 1885. The poet called Gridley a "friend of L of G. and W. W." in a letter to Gilchrist of September 15, 1885.

Notes

  • 1. This postal card is addressed: C Oscar Gridley | 9 Duke Street | London Bridge | London | s e | England. It is postmarked: CAMDEN | AUG | 30 | [illegible] | 1886 | N.J.; PHILADELPHIA, PA. | AUG | 30 | 1886 | PAID. [back]
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