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Walt Whitman to Joseph M. Stoddart, 13 January 1891

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Joseph M. Stoddart, 13 January 1891
  • Date: January 13, 1891
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.04678
  • 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.
  • Contributors to digital file: Cristin Noonan Amanda J. Axley Alex Ashland Stephanie Blalock
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Joseph M. Stoddart, 13 January 1891." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 09 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.04678.xml (TEI)
 loc_gt.00177_large.jpg 328 Mickle St. Camden 11 am Tuesday My friend J. M. S. (for so I would have it)

Yours just rec'd.1 Come around right away2 & let me mix you a good generous sour mash to remove such baseless & unworthy constructions from your thought—

Affectionate respects to Mrs. S.3 Walt Whitman

Correspondent:
Joseph Marshall Stoddart (1845–1921) published Stoddart's Encyclopaedia America, established Stoddart's Review in 1880, which was merged with The American in 1882, and became the editor of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1886. On January 11, 1882, Whitman received an invitation from Stoddart through J. E. Wainer, one of his associates, to dine with Oscar Wilde on January 14 (Clara Barrus, Whitman and Burroughs—Comrades [Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1931], 235n).

Notes

  • 1. See Stoddart's letter to Whitman of January 13, 1891. [back]
  • 2. The actor Francis Wilson accompanied Stoddart on the visit to Whitman. Wilson who wrote a letter to Whitman on January 16, 1891, after the visit, expressing his thanks. The letter arrived along with a bottle of Old Crow Whiskey. [back]
  • 3. Joseph Marshall Stoddart married Isabella Herkness (1850–1900). [back]
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