Walt Whitman to Unidentified Correspondent, 16 December 1884

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Title: Walt Whitman to Unidentified Correspondent, 16 December 1884
Date: December 16, 1884
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: med.00761
Source: This letter is in the private collection of Kendall Reed. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Ted Genoways (Iowa City: Iowa University Press, 2004), 77. 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 Stefan Schöberlein Ian Faith Kyle Barton Nicole Gray
Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Unidentified Correspondent, 16 December 1884." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 19 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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Camden NJ Dec. 16 '84 Dear friend

Please convey to the Marquis de Leuville1 my thanks for his beautiful book just received—& to you also thanks for your kindness.

Walt Whitman

1. The Marquis de Leuville was William Redivivus Oliver de Lorncourt, born in 1841; he enjoyed some notoriety as a poet who wrote in French and English. His Poems and Aelia from "Entre-Nous" appeared in 1884 (London: Chapman & Hall), and the introduction, called "Entre-Nous," begins, "I had therefore better make some apologies for my 'French-English.'" [back]