Life & Letters

Correspondence

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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]


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