C. B. Burr to Walt Whitman, 22 January 1881

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Title: C. B. Burr to Walt Whitman, 22 January 1881
Date: January 22, 1881
Creator(s): C. B. Burr
Whitman Archive ID: loc.07086
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: Jeannette Schollaert Nicole Gray
Cite this page: Burr, C. B.. "C. B. Burr to Walt Whitman, 22 January 1881." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 13 December 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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loc_af.00209_large.jpg Eastern Michigan Asylum1 Pontiac, Mich. Jany 22 1881 Walt Whitman Esq My Dear Sir:

I take great pleasure [cut away] acknowledging the receipt of your [cut away] Volume of "Leaves [cut away]2

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Correspondent:
C. B. Burr became medical superintendent of the Eastern Michigan Asylum in 1889, after working as an assistant physician and an assistant superintendent.

Notes

1. On the envelope pasted to this letter is the following return address (associated with a different letter): "Return to D. RANSOM, SON & CO., | BUFFALO, N. Y., | If not delivered within 10 days. [back]
2. The signature to this letter has been cut away, but Whitman made the following note in his Commonplace Book for January 18, 1881: "Sent "Leaves of Grass" to C B Burr M D. | Asylum for the Insane Pontiac Mich: | recd | paid" (Daybooks and Notebooks, ed. William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 1:220). [back]