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Camden and Atlantic Railroad Company to Walt Whitman, 25 January 1881

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  • Title: Camden and Atlantic Railroad Company to Walt Whitman, 25 January 1881
  • Date: January 25, 1881
  • Creator(s): Camden and Atlantic Railroad Company
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.05170
  • Source: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1842–1937, 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: Nicole Gray Stefan Schöberlein Kirsten Clawson
  • Cite this page: Company, Camden and Atlantic Railroad. "Camden and Atlantic Railroad Company to Walt Whitman, 25 January 1881." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 25 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.05170.xml (TEI)
 loc.00082.002.jpg Office of the Secretary and Treasurer,1 CAMDEN & ATLANTIC RAILROAD CO. Camden, N. J., Jany 25 1881. Walt Whitman Esq Dear Sir:

Enclosed herewith please find Complimentary Pass over this Road for the present year.

Please acknowledge receipt, and oblige2

 loc.00082.001.jpg

Notes

  • 1. Whitman composed a draft of the poem "As Consequent, Etc." (first published in the 1881 Leaves of Grass) on the back of this form letter. [back]
  • 2. The rest of the letter has been cut off. [back]
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