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Title: Walt Whitman to U.S. Postmaster, 9 June 1888
Date: June 9, 1888
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04344
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Walt Whitman.
Camden,
New Jersey.
June 9 1888
Postmaster Camden NJ
Please pay the within order to Mrs: Davis1 the bearer for me.
Walt Whitman
Notes:
1. Mary Oakes Davis (1837 or 1838–1908) was Whitman's housekeeper. For more, see Carol J. Singley, "Davis, Mary Oakes (1837 or 1838–1908)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998). [back]