Title: Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 12 June [1874]
Date: June 12, 1874
Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00346
Source: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 2:305. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
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431 Stevens st.
cor West.
Camden,
N. Jersey.
June 12—5½ p.m.1
All about the same—I am standing the hot weather well—shall not go on to Boston, to the College.
W. W.
1.
This piece of correspondence is addressed, "Peter Doyle, | M st.
South—bet 4½ & 6th | Washington, D.C." It is postmarked:
"Philadelphia | Jun | (?); Carrier | 13 | Jun (?)| 8 AM."
The reference to Tufts College verifies the year. [back]