B. A. Watson to Walt Whitman, 19 August 1891

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Title: B. A. Watson to Walt Whitman, 19 August 1891
Date: August 19, 1891
Creator(s): B. A. Watson
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04640
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.
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loc_vm.02489_large.jpg Jersey City, Aug. 19th. 1891. Mr Walt. Whitman, Camden, N.J. Dear Sir:—

Please send me by express, C.O.D. or as you may choose, a copy of your Farewell.1

Very sincerely yours, B. A. Watson, 108 York st.

Dictated.

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Correspondent:
As yet we have no information about this correspondent.

1. Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short prose works commenting on poetry, aging, and death, among other topics. Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892), the last edition of Leaves of Grass published before Whitman's death in March 1892. For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998). [back]