The Walt Whitman Archive
Life & Letters
Correspondence
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Title: Walt Whitman to Deaf and Dumb Callers, 22 January 1889
Date: January 22, 1889
Whitman Archive ID: loc.07571
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), 4:273. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Blake Bronson-Bartlett, Ryan Furlong, Ian Faith, and Stephanie Blalock
Glad to see you—the doctor prohibits callers nearly altogether—but I suppose because they talk too much—wh' I find you do not—but I can only say Hail—& good bye—
Walt Whitman
Jan: 22 '89
Correspondent:
Little is known about these
correspondents who seemingly visited Whitman in Camden. Whitman likely wrote
this note to communicate with his visitors, who could neither hear nor
speak.