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Title: Walt Whitman to Richard W. Colles, 27 January 1888
Date: January 27, 1888
Whitman Archive ID: mil.00002
Source: Albert M. Bender Collection, Special Collections
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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.
Contributors to digital file: Blake Bronson-Bartlett, Caterina Bernardini, and Stephanie Blalock
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Camden New Jersey US America
Jan: 27 '881
—I have been waiting to get good copies of "Specimen Days" wh' I shall have shortly, & will then immediately send one—I mail "Leaves of Grass" now—the price of the two vols. is one pound, wh' I wish you to send me here by p o order (328 Mickle Street)—Nothing very new or different—arctic cold here for the last fortnight—best regards to you & my Irish friends2—
Walt Whitman
Correspondent:
Richard W. Colles was
probably one of the many students of Edward Dowden who became fervid admirers of
Whitman. For more, see Philip W. Leon, "Dowden, Edward (1843–1913)," Walt Whitman: An
Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York:
Garland Publishing, 1998).
Notes:
1. This letter is addressed: R W Colles | 26 Oxford Road Ranelagh | Dublin | Ireland. It is postmarked: Camde[n] | Jan (?) 1 30 (?) M | 88; Phila[delphi]a, Pa. | Jan | 28 | 1888 | Paid. [back]
2. Colles replied on February 12, 1888. [back]