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Title: Walt Whitman to Horace Howard Furness, 4 February 1881
Date: February 4, 1881
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04291
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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431 Stevens Street
Friday noon
Feb
4 '81
Thanks dear Horace1 for the warm affectionate letter & for the $10, just rec'd—
—I am kept in by the weather & a special spell of feebleness,—but the first fine day will bring me out—
Walt Whitman
Notes:
1. According to the entry in Whitman's Commonplace Book (Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.), Whitman sent Two Rivulets to Horace Howard Furness (1833–1912), the distinguished Shakespearean scholar whom the poet met in 1879. See the letter from Whitman to John Burroughs of March 27, 1879 and the letters from Whitman to Furness of April 8, 1880 and April 13, 1880; see also Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906–1996), 9 vols., 3:520. [back]