Walt Whitman to Harry D. Hughes, 12 February 1887

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Title: Walt Whitman to Harry D. Hughes, 12 February 1887
Date: February 12, 1887
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: med.00752
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Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Harry D. Hughes, 12 February 1887." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 09 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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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]