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Walt Whitman to William F. Channing, 27 September 1868

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to William F. Channing, 27 September 1868
  • Date: September 27, 1868
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: rdi.00002
  • Source: Rhode Island Historical Society. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 47. 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 Zachary King Eric Conrad Nicole Gray
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to William F. Channing, 27 September 1868." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 25 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: rdi.00002.xml (TEI)
New York, September 27, 1868. My dear Dr. Channing:

I yesterday received your kind note. I gladly accept your invitation & hospitality.1 My leave of absence continues for some time yet, & I should probably like to visit you for a few days, just subsequently to the middle of October—But I will write you a day or two before I come.

I send my best respects & love to Mrs. Channing. As I write we are having a rainy, dark sulky Sunday—after a rainy night. I am well & quietly enjoying holiday.

I wish you & wife to read my last piece2 in The Broadway London Magazine for October. You can get it at any good bookstand.

Walt Whitman.

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