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Title: Walt Whitman to J. J. Harris Teall, 5 October [1877]
Date: October 5, 1877
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04025
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: Alicia Bones, Grace Thomas, Eder Jaramillo, Kevin McMullen, and Nicole Gray
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Camden New Jersey
U S America1
Oct 52—
I have to-day sent by mail same address as this card my Volume Two Rivulets—Please notify me (by postal card will do) soon as it reaches you safely
Walt Whitman
Notes:
1. This postal card is addressed: J J Harris Teall | University Extension Lecturer | Nottingham | England. It is postmarked: (?) | Oct | 5 | N.J.; Philadelphia | Oct | 5 | Paid. [back]
2. J. J. Harris Teall taught science at Nottingham; see The Commonplace Book (Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.) and Edward Carpenter's letter to Whitman on December 19, 1877. [back]