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Title: Walt Whitman to Alma Calder Johnston, 10 October 1881
Date: October 10, 1881
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02429
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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RAND, AVERY & CO., PRINTERS.
BOSTON,__________188
Monday noon
Oct:
10 '81
My dear friend
Yours rec'd, & thanks—I still linger along here—the printing of my book is finished—but one or two little things I want to see too—& then I am in no hurry—Shall probably finish up altogether this week—& then shall come on to your house1—shall send you word a day beforehand—I am well as usual—Have had a very pleasant time here, & the book printed &c. to my entire satisfaction—Best love to John, Ally, & the dear girls—
Walt Whitman
Notes:
1. Whitman did not leave Boston until October 22 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). [back]