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
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]