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Correspondence

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Title: Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Correspondent, [1876]

Date: 1876?

Whitman Archive ID: med.00452

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), 3:73. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.

Contributors to digital file: Janel Cayer, Kenneth M. Price, Elizabeth Lorang, Kathryn Kruger, Zachary King, and Eric Conrad




431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey / US America 1

Yours rec'd—Many thanks—shall be happy to supply you with the Book—the best way is by mail—the price is £2 sent me here by p. o. order—it is entirely safe and easy—


Walt Whitman

Thanks for your offer of "the Poetry of the Period"—I have not seen it—


Notes:

1. This note was sent to an Englishman to inform him of the price of the 1876 edition. [back]


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