The Walt Whitman Archive
Life & Letters
Correspondence
About this Item
Title: Unidentified Correspondent to Walt Whitman, [1891?]
Date: [1891?]
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.
Related item: A line has been drawn through this autograph request, and the letter has also been cut in half. Whitman used the back of the letter to write notes about his seventy-second birthday, May 31, 1891.
Contributors to digital file: Marie Ernster, Amanda J. Axley, and Stephanie Blalock
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The Morton C
[illegible]
Portsmouth, O.,
J
[illegible]
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?] [illegible]
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]