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Title: Walt Whitman to Harry Stafford, 13 April [1880]

Date: April 13, 1880

Whitman Archive ID: loc.03993

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.

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Tuesday evening April 131

Harry, if come up Thursday (say by the 5.13 p m train) go up to the hall by 7 oclock, and make yourself useful, if you feel like it—Give this note to the one it is address'd to2—ask for him there—(I will mention it to him—he is bossing the thing for me)—act as usher, or door keeper, or help in the box office—it will be fun for you—


Walt


Notes:

1. This letter is addressed: Harry L Stafford | (Glendale) | Kirkwood | New Jersey. It is postmarked: Camden | Apr | 14 | N.J. [back]

2. See the letter from Whitman to William Reisdell of April 13, 1880[back]


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