Title: Walt Whitman to Thomas Nicholson [?], [12 October 1881]
Date: October 12, 1881
Whitman Archive ID: yal.00115
Source: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book
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Wednesday Noon1
Tom here is a New York paper with an acc't of the great Cricket Match between the Canadians and Americans—I thought you might like to read
I find I have no photo: here like the one I gave Tom Bradley, but I have some home, & when I go back to Camden, I will send you one sure.
W W
1. According to the New York Times, the Canadians defeated an American cricket team on October 11. October 12 was on Wednesday in 1881. [back]