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Correspondence

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Title: Walt Whitman to Horace Howard Furness, 26 January 1881

Date: January 26, 1881

Whitman Archive ID: med.00759

Source: The location of this 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), 6:24. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.

Contributors to digital file: Alex Kinnaman and Nicole Gray




431 Stevens Street,
Camden,
Jan: 26 '81

My dear friend

I am sorry to have to send you word that I am not feeling in good trim at all to-day, & shall be unable to meet you & the other friends at dinner—

I send you herewith a couple of pictures (I call it my Quaker picture)—one is for your father—also the books herewith1—also my love to you—


Walt Whitman


Notes:

1. Whitman sent Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets on the same day; see William White, "Unrecorded Whitman Letter to H. H. Furness," Walt Whitman Review 18 (December 1872): 141–42. [back]


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