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Title: Emma Riley to Walt Whitman, 23 November [1883]
Date: November 23, 1883
Whitman Archive ID: loc.03630
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SOUTH HEATH,
HAMPSTEAD. N.W.
London,
Nov 23rd/[83?]
Dear Sir
Will you also send me "Leaves of Grass" the same edition as "Specimen Days" that I may have your works complete. I have not yet seen it but have read several of the poems—"Lines on a Locomotive" I cut out of a newspaper years ago before I knew your name thinking it very forcible & grand. Trusting that you still enjoy life & that as sometimes happens the paralysis is decreasing & that you are surrounded by kind friends; & surely you must be for are not you the friend of every man!
I feel the [confidence?] of me of those [friends?] that you will find no presumption in my writing thus, & again thanking you for the assurance of that brotherly feeling
Believe me
Sincerely yours
Emma Riley