Walt Whitman to Edward T. Potter, 28 December 1887

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Title: Walt Whitman to Edward T. Potter, 28 December 1887
Date: December 28, 1887
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00555
Source: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 138. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
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Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Edward T. Potter, 28 December 1887." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 09 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey1 Dec. 28 '87

Thanks, my dear friend, for your kind letter & (Christmas) contents—I am ab't as usual—

Walt Whitman

Correspondent:
Edward Tuckerman Potter (1831–1904), a native of Schenectady, New York, was a prominent American architect. He is known for designing the Mark Twain House (1871) in Hartford, Connecticut. He married Julia Maria Blatchford (1834–1922), and the couple lived abroad in London and Paris for many years, before Edward's retirement, after which they remained primarily in Newport, Rhode Island.

Notes

1. This letter is addressed: Edward T Potter | 26 S 38th Street | New York City. It is postmarked: Camden, N.J. | Dec 2(?) | 6 PM | 87; F | 12-30-87 | 6 A | N.Y. [back]