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Walt Whitman to Unidentified Correspondent, 16 June 1888

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Unidentified Correspondent, 16 June 1888
  • Date: June 16, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: med.00834
  • Source: The location of this manuscript is unknown. Miller derives his transcription from a transcript of the letter printed in the Swann Auction Galleries Catalog of October 1, 1942. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 174. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Ryan Furlong Ian Faith Stefan Schöberlein Stephanie Blalock
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Unidentified Correspondent, 16 June 1888." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 24 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: med.00834.xml (TEI)
Camden, June 16, 1888

I am sitting up a couple of hours at a time, pretty feeble—It looks now as though I wd drift back to abt the stage of three weeks ago—such as it was.

Correspondent:
As yet we have no information about this correspondent.

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