Life & Letters

Correspondence

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Title: Williamina H. De Joe to Walt Whitman, 25 February 1891

Date: February 25, 1891

Whitman Archive ID: loc.08226

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.

Related item: On the back of this autograph request, Whitman has written what appear to be notes toward a potential title: "Some bits of random talk."

Contributors to digital file: Cristin Noonan, Amanda J. Axley, Marie Ernster, and Stephanie Blalock



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Will Mr. Whitman grant the favor of his autograph to one, who not a "collector of autographs," still desires the hand writing of one of America's well known poets


Williamina H. De Joe
February 25, 1891.


Correspondent:
As yet we have no information about this correspondent.

Notes:

1. A line has been drawn through this letter in ink. [back]


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