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Walt Whitman to Unidentified Correspondent, (?) September(?) 1891(?)

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Unidentified Correspondent, (?) September(?) 1891(?)
  • Date: September(?) (?), 1891(?)
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: prc.00144
  • Source: Private Collection of Henry Goldsmith. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 249. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Ryan Furlong Amanda J. Axley Stephanie Blalock
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Unidentified Correspondent, (?) September(?) 1891(?)." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 18 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: prc.00144.xml (TEI)
September ?, 1891

Thank you deeply for the notice of Good–Bye1 & me generally in the paper of Sept 32—Its printed lines toss back upon me the vitality & lovingness I seek to put in L of G. & skips the poor points—I wish the writer of the notice to have this card, with my best gratitude.

Correspondent:
As yet we have no information about this correspondent.

Notes

  • 1. Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short prose works commenting on poetry, aging, and death, among other topics. Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892), the last edition of Leaves of Grass published before Whitman's death in March 1892. For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998). [back]
  • 2. Since Good–bye My Fancy was widely reviewed at this time, it is almost impossible to determine which publication WW referred to. [back]
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