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Walt Whitman to Harry Stafford, 5 August [1881]

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Harry Stafford, 5 August [1881]
  • Date: August 5, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: med.00647
  • Source: The location of this manuscript is unknown. Miller's transcription is derived from Sotheby & Company (13 May 1935). The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 235–236. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kirsten Clawson Nima Najafi Kianfar Stefan Schöberlein Nicole Gray
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Harry Stafford, 5 August [1881]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 19 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: med.00647.xml (TEI)
New York City. Aug.​ 51

. . . have been (a little) at Long Branch and Rockaway, but most of the time down on Long Island exploring the place where I was born (& the Whitmans &c for 250 years)—had a good time—am now here in New York—am going on to Boston very soon to print book...

Notes

  • 1. Whitman noted sending a "postal" to Stafford. While he was at West Hills, he spent one day at Long Branch and another at Far Rockaway (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). [back]
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