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Title: Postcard from Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 28 October [1874 or 1875]
Date: October 28, 1874 or 1875
Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00380
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), 2:348. 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.
Cor West.
Camden, N.J.
Oct. 28.1
Every thing continues favorable—full as good as any time yet—perhaps rather better than any yet—Letter & paper rec'd.
W. W.
Notes:
1.
This postcard bears the address, "Peter Doyle, | M st. South, bet 4½ &
6th | Washington, D.C." It is postmarked: "Camden | Oct | (?) 8 | N.J.;
Carrier | 29 | Oct | (?) AM."
This postcard cannot be assigned to a specific year for obvious reasons: the
allusions to Whitman's health are vague and in fact applicable to almost any
time between 1873 and 1876; there are no concrete references to events which
would make dating possible. However, it was written on a standard government
postcard which was redesigned in 1876. [back]