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328 Mickle street
Camden New Jersey
May 21
'85
Dear Sir1
As I have lost the address of the young man2 who call'd
upon me yesterday from your paper, & to whom I promised some pictures and
memoranda, I send them directly to you—If I can furnish you with any thing
else, or any information I shall be happy to do so—
Walt Whitman
the best likeness in my opinion is the big photo—
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Correspondent:
As yet we have no information about
this correspondent.
Notes
- 1. The following letter was
written to the editor of the New York Daily Graphic,
which in a birthday tribute on May 31 printed part of it in facsimile as well as
two portraits of Whitman and sketches by T. A. Teraud of Mickle Street and the
Huntington birthplace. [back]
- 2. Perhaps Andrew E. Murphy,
described in Whitman's Commonplace Book as "the attaché [of the Daily Graphic] who wrote to me May '85." [back]