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Elmer E. Stafford to Walt Whitman, 18 January 1878

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  • Title: Elmer E. Stafford to Walt Whitman, 18 January 1878
  • Date: January 18, 1878
  • Creator(s): Elmer E. Stafford
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.03956
  • 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.
  • Contributors to digital file: Vince Moran Eder Jaramillo Alicia Bones Nicole Gray Stefan Schöberlein
  • Cite this page: Stafford, Elmer E.. "Elmer E. Stafford to Walt Whitman, 18 January 1878." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 25 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.03956.xml (TEI)
 loc_jc.00375_large.jpg from Elmer | Jan 18 '78 Jan.​ 18. 1878 Dear Walt

I have received your letter and very glad to hear from you.1 I am well and hope this letter will find you the same.

Dear Walt, I would like to see you. there is nothing very new, the W is clear & the stars is shining very bright, as you stated in your letter you would like to no​ Wesleys​ 2 address

Wesley Stafford

Dixie, Polk Co

Oregon

I would like to come down & stay all night with you I will come down as soon as I can. It is now 4 minutes after 8 oclock  loc_jc.00376_large.jpg I have been hauling wood to day we have been Clearing off the swamp & now are very near don​ . we are all well. the weather has not been very cold yet but we [damage] for snow perty​ soon. I will come down and stay with you some time just as soon as I can if it could be so I would like to be with you all the time. I must end my letter now so it is good by​ Dear Walt

Elmer E. Stafford Glendale Camden Co New Jersey

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]
  • 2. Wesley Stafford was Harry Stafford's cousin. [back]
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