The Walt Whitman Archive
Life & Letters
Correspondence
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Title: Walt Whitman to Newton Benedict and Mrs. Newton Benedict, 25 October 1868
Date: October 25, 1868
Whitman Archive ID: med.00402
Source: The location of the original manuscript is unknown. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 2:69. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Kenneth M. Price, Elizabeth Lorang, Zachary King, Eric Conrad, and Nicole Gray
[Writing from New York, Walt Whitman informed the Benedicts of the date of his return to Washington.]1
Correspondent:
The Benedicts were Walt
Whitman's landlords at 468 M North, who replaced Juliet Grayson after her death
in 1867. Whitman recorded this change in management in his February 12, 1867 letter to Louisa Van Velsor
Whitman.
Notes:
1. The summary of the letter is drawn from an auction catalog put out by the American Art Association for a 1924 sale. The location of this manuscript is presently unknown. [back]