The Walt Whitman Archive
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Title: Walt Whitman to James Scovel, [1878?]
Date: 1878
Whitman Archive ID: loc.03572
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 derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller, 6 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), and supplemented, updated, or created by Whitman Archive staff as appropriate.
Contributors to digital file: Kirsten Clawson, Eder Jaramillo, Stefan Schöberlein, and Nicole Gray
Notes:
1. The only reason for assigning this note to 1878—and it is far from conclusive—is that during this and the following year Whitman frequently had Sunday breakfast with Scovel; it became a kind of ritual when he was in Camden. [back]