Walt Whitman to Miss Elwell, 13 August 1884

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Title: Walt Whitman to Miss Elwell, 13 August 1884
Date: August 13, 1884
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: wwh.00021
Source: Walt Whitman House, Camden, New Jersey. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 374–375. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Stefan Schöberlein Kyle Barton
Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Miss Elwell, 13 August 1884." 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 Jersey Aug. 13 '84 Dear Miss Elwell

I thank Mrs. Taylor1 heartily for her poem to me—not forgetting you too for kindly sending it—I keep about as well as usual this summer.

Walt Whitman

Correspondent:
"Miss Elwell was a friend of my sister's . . . [she] is a reader—a bright woman," Whitman later explained to Horace Traubel (With Walt Whitman in Camden, Tuesday, December 25, 1888).

Notes

1. Perhaps Mrs. Hannah L. Taylor, who wrote to Whitman on December 10, 1880. [back]