Title: Walt Whitman to Richard Hoe Lawrence, 8 March 1881
Date: March 8, 1881
Whitman Archive ID: loc.07008
Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 6:24. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Alex Kinnaman and Nicole Gray
431 Stevens Street
Camden New Jersey
March 8 '81
Dear Sir
Yours of yesterday—in response to which—without a ceremony—I forward you two books by same mail with same address1—Please send pay by P O order—
Walt Whitman
1. Whitman sent Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets on the same day (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). Lawrence lived at 81 Park Avenue, New York City. [back]