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Walt Whitman to Charles Eldridge, 8 December [1874]

Yours rec'd​ this morning. Thanks for sending the books. Please duly send same address the Finance Rep't​ for 1874 when printed. Glad to get the item about Symonds's book2—shall look for it. I am better—still head wavering, & stomach qualmish, but fainter spells & at longer intervals—am having to-day, & as I write, very tolerable conditions—

W W

Notes

  • 1.

    This postcard bears the address, "Chas. W. Eldridge | Internal Revenue Bureau | Washington, D.C." It is postmarked: "Camden | Dec | 8 | N.J.; Carrier | 9 | Dec | 6 (?) AM."

    This postcard deals with the same material as that in Whitman's December 2, 1874 letter to Eldridge.

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  • 2. Whitman refers here to John Addington Symonds' Studies of the Greek Poets (London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1873–1876), in which Whitman was lauded as "more thoroughly Greek than any man of modern times." [back]
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