Title: Walt Whitman to Richard Watson Gilder, 9 December [1880]
Date: December 9, 1880
Whitman Archive ID: prc.00056
Source: The location of this manuscript is unknown. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 3:200. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
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Camden N J1
Dec: 9
Dear G:
Don't bother ab't that matter2—it is in hands that have already put it in fair train—You have my best sympathies—Am coming to New York before long, & shall notify you or call—
W. W.
1. This letter bears the address: R W Gilder | Scribner's Magazine office | 743 Broadway | New York City. It is postmarked: Camden | Dec | 10 | N.J.; D | 12–10 | 3 P. [back]
2. For more on the Worthington matter (see the letter from Whitman to Gilder of November 26, 1880). [back]