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Title: Walt Whitman to Ruth Stafford, 22 June [1882]
Date: June 22, 1882
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04256
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: Stefan Schoeberlein, Nima Najafi Kianfar, Eder Jaramillo, and Nicole Gray
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Camden1
June 22
Evn'g
Dear young friend
Yours rec'd to-day, & glad to hear from you—I have wanted to come down for quite a while, but business has delayed me. I am pretty well—& all goes well enough to be thankful for in my affairs.—Only a short word this time but I will be down soon & tell you all the news2—After I write this I am going out on the river for an hour or two—
W W
Notes:
1. This post card is addressed: Miss Ruth Anna Stafford | Kirkwood | Glendale | New Jersey. It is postmarked: Camden | Jun | 23 | 7 AM | N.J. [back]
2. Whitman was at Glendale from July 3 to 5 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). [back]