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Unidentified Correspondent to Walt Whitman, [1891?]

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  • Title: Unidentified Correspondent to Walt Whitman, [1891?]
  • Date: [1891?]
  • Creator(s): Unidentified Correspondent
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.04913
  • 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: Marie Ernster Amanda J. Axley Stephanie Blalock
  • Cite this page: Correspondent, Unidentified. "Unidentified Correspondent to Walt Whitman, [1891?]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 11 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.04913.xml (TEI)
 loc_tb.00278.jpg The Morton C[cut-off] Portsmouth, O., J[cut-off] Walt Whitman Esq1 My Dear Sir

Please send me your autograph on enclosed card

I have written you so often for it but am very anxious for it and so persist in writing [cut-off]

 loc_tb.00279.jpg

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

Notes

  • 1. Because Whitman wrote notes about his birthday—May 31, 1891—on the back of this autograph request, the letter was likely received earlier that year. [back]
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