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Title: Walt Whitman to William Michael Rossetti, [April (?) 1875]
Date: April(?) 1875
Whitman Archive ID: med.00434
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), 2:327–328. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang, Kathryn Kruger, Zachary King, and Eric Conrad
Still unwell and paralysed, but up and around. Post-office address at Camden, New Jersey, U. S. A.; shall probably remain there. Design to bring out a volume, mélange of prose and verse, partly fresh matter, this summer.1
Notes:
1. On April 14, 1875, William Michael Rossetti wrote to Whitman that he would include in The Academy "the substance of your last note," probably a postcard. The text given here appeared on April 17, 1875. Rossetti also observed that he had quoted from Whitman's estimate of Robert Burns in The Academy, 7 (February 27, 1875), 214–215. [back]