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Title: Walt Whitman to Harry D. Hughes, 12 February 1887
Date: February 12, 1887
Whitman Archive ID: med.00752
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Notes for this letter were derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller, 6 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), and supplemented, updated, or created by Whitman Archive staff as appropriate.
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328 Mickle Street1
Camden New Jersey
Feb. 12 '87
I have rec'd the Dec. & Feb. numbers of "Leisure Moments" with your friendly articles ab't me, & wish to thank you. They are affectionately appreciated. I thank Edward Stratton Holloway2 for sending them to me.3
Walt Whitman
Correspondent:
Little is known about Harry
D. Hughes, but as an envelope with Hughes' address ("3343 North 21th street /
Philadelphia / Pa") is extant from March 21, 1888, Whitman might have written to
Hughes again at this point or perhaps even met him in person. Hughes was also an
author, who published Romances and Studies, a small
volume of essays and sketches, in 1889 (Philadelphia: Ideal Publishing
Company).
Notes:
1. This postal card is addressed: Harry D. Hughes | 3343 N 21st Street | Philadelphia. It is postmarked: Camden | Feb | 12 | 12 M | 1887 | NJ; Received | Feb | 12 | [illegible] | 1887 | Phila. [back]
2. Edward Stratton Holloway (1859–1939) was a landscape painter and book illustrator from New York. He was apparently a shared acquaintance of Whitman and John H. Johnston, the New York Jeweler. [back]
3. Hughes wrote in superlatives of "Walt Whitman's Prose Works" in Leisure Moments, 11 (February 1887), 17. [back]