Elmer E. Stafford to Walt Whitman, 9 November 1877

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Title: Elmer E. Stafford to Walt Whitman, 9 November 1877
Date: November 9, 1877
Creator(s): Elmer E. Stafford
Whitman Archive ID: loc.03954
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loc_jc.00371_large.jpg Nov. 9, 1877. Dear sir.

I am well and hope you the same1 I would be very glad to see you as i did expect to come down [damage] you to day or i would of wrote sooner. and if nothing hapins I will be down next wensday night and stay until thursday night I would like very much to see you you must rite right a way and tell me how you are a getting along I would like to be with you all the time if i could i would like very much to go with you on your trip to washington. we are very buisy husking just now and will be fore a few days and we will have nothing to do for a while)

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I am in a hurry i cant rite any so it is good by i hope you well

Elmer E. Stafford Glendale To Walt. Whitman NJ

Notes

1. Elmer E. Stafford (1861–1957) was Harry Stafford's cousin (see Daybooks and Notebooks, ed. William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978], 1:76 n232). [back]