Oscar Tottie to Walt Whitman, 11 August [1878]

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Title: Oscar Tottie to Walt Whitman, 11 August [1878]
Date: August 11, [1878]
Creator(s): Oscar Tottie
Whitman Archive ID: loc.08463
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Cite this page: Tottie, Oscar. "Oscar Tottie to Walt Whitman, 11 August [1878]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 09 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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loc_es.01394_large.jpg 64, Seymour Street,
W. Sun, Aug. 11. Dear Sir,

I am much obliged to you for the two vols. received yesterday.1

Yrs. Sincerely Oscar Tottie

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

1. Whitman mentioned sending these books to Tottie at 64 Seymour Street, London (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). See also Whitman's postal card to Tottie of July 26, [1878]. [back]