Title: Walt Whitman to Albert Johnston, 27 March 1882
Date: March 27, 1882
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02428
Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt
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March 27 '82
Dear Al1
First—Love to you and all, May, Bertha, Grace, Kittie & Harry—Second, sorry to hear your mother has been down sick & hope the Florida jaunt will help her, (as it probably will)—
—Third, it was I no doubt that sold the Cumberland Street Brooklyn house to Wineburgh2—What is it your friend wants me to do?—Send me word when the coast is all clear, & every thing lovely, & I will come on to Mott Haven for a week's visit—I am well as usual
Walt Whitman
I write this down in the woods in Jersey but go up to Camden to-morrow3—
1. The son of the jeweler, John H. Johnston (see the letter from Walt Whitman to Mannahatta Whitman of June 22–26, 1878). [back]
2. Whitman deleted the following words: "& will do any thing." On the Cumberland Street house, see the letter from Whitman to Frederick Baker of April 24, 1860. [back]
3. But see the letter from Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist of March 31, 1882. [back]