Title: Walt Whitman to D. M. Zimmerman, 26 January 1881
Date: January 26, 1881
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04073
Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 3:207. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
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431 Stevens Street
Camden
Jan: 26 '81
Thanks for the '81 ticket which has come safe to hand.1 I am not certain whether I sent the enclosed slip at the time—so send it now—
Walt Whitman
1. D. M. Zimmerman, the secretary and treasurer of the Camden & Atlantic Railroad, sent the poet a railroad pass (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). [back]