Title: Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 20 August [1875]
Date: August 20, 1875
Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00370
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), 2:339. 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.
cor West.
Camden,
N. Jersey.
Aug 20.1
All yours rec'd—Still here—Still about the same—sitting here by the open window—very bright & sunny, & pretty hot—(bad head to-day).
W. W.
1.
This piece of correspondence is addressed, "Pete Doyle, | M street
South—bet 4½ & 6th | Washington, D.C." It is postmarked: "Camden |
Aug | 20 | N.J.; Carrier | Aug | 21 | 8 AM."
Dating depends upon Whitman's almost inflexible habit of sending Doyle a line
on Friday. Note also the reference to his "bad head" in this and the
following letter. [back]