Title: Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Correspondent, [25 December] 1875
Date: December 25, 1875
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: med.00701
Source: The location of this manuscript is unknown. Genoways's
transcription is derived from a thank-you note written on a white card
about the size of a nineteenth-century calling card, which appeared in an auction at
Swann Galleries, New York, on October 11, 1990.
The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Ted Genoways (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004), 43. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Alex KinnamanJonathan Y. ChengElizabeth LorangNima Najafi KianfarNicole Gray
Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Correspondent, [25 December] 1875." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 09 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.