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Title: Walt Whitman to Miss Elwell, 13 August 1884
Date: August 13, 1884
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), 3:374–375. 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 and Kyle Barton
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]