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Title: Walt Whitman to Susan Stafford, 31 March [1881]

Date: March 31, 1881

Whitman Archive ID: loc.03906

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.

Contributors to digital file: Stefan Schoeberlein, Nima Najafi Kianfar, Eder Jaramillo, and Nicole Gray



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Camden1
March 312

Shall come down Saturday afternoon in the 4 o'clock train—to Kirkwood—


W. W.


Notes:

1. This post card bears the address: Mrs Susan M Stafford | (Glendale) | Kirkwood | Camden County | New Jersey. It is postmarked: Camden | Mar(?) | 31 | N.J. [back]

2. Since Whitman went to Glendale on Saturday, April 2, the year appears to be correct (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). [back]


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