Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Correspondent, 28 March 1878

About This Item

Title: Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Correspondent, 28 March 1878
Date: March 28, 1878
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04209
Source: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1842–1937, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Ted Genoways (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004), 52. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Alicia Bones Nima Najafi Kianfar Eder Jaramillo Nicole Gray
Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Correspondent, 28 March 1878." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 19 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
Source File: loc.04209.xml (TEI)

Camden Thursday afternoon March 281 My dear friends

I am still grunting & unable to go out

1. The recipients of this letter are unknown because there are no entries in the Daybooks and Notebooks for letters sent on this day, and there are no references to this letter in the known correspondence (Daybooks and Notebooks, ed. William White [New York: New York University Press, 1978]). [back]