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Title: Walt Whitman to John Swinton, 12 March [1875]
Date: March 12, 1875
Whitman Archive ID: prc.00031
Source: Private collection of Rollo G. Silver. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 2:325. 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. Jersey.
March 12.1
Yours rec'd—Come by all means—nothing very new—bad spells continued, & then a let up—(pretty much the same old story)—Telegraph to me about coming—
WW
Notes:
1.
This postcard bears the address, "John Swinton | 134 E. 38th Street | New
York City." It is postmarked: "Camden | (?)| 12 | N.J."
This postcard can be plausibly assigned to 1875, since Swinton visited
Whitman within a few weeks; see Whitman's April 1,
1875 letter to John Burroughs. [back]