Title: Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 4 September [1875]
Date: September 4, 1875
Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00371
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), 2:340. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Kenneth M. Price, Elizabeth Lorang, Kathryn Kruger, Zachary King, and Eric Conrad
431 Stevens st. Camden
N. Jersey
Sept. 4.1
Nothing new or different with me. Want to come on to Wash[ington] before long, for two or three days.
WW
1.
This piece of correspondence is addressed, "Pete Doyle | M street South, bet
4½ & 6th | Washington, D.C." It is postmarked: "Camden | Sep | (?)|
N.J.; Carrier | Sep | 5 | 9 AM."
The year is assumed because Whitman did not seriously plan to return to
Washington until 1875. [back]