The Walt Whitman Archive
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Title: Walt Whitman to Ellen M. Abdy-Williams, 7 January 1885
Date: January 7, 1885
Whitman Archive ID: yal.00234
Source: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book
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Notes for this letter were created by Whitman Archive staff and/or were derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller, 6 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), and supplemented or updated by Whitman Archive staff.
Contributors to digital file: Stefan Schöberlein and Kyle Barton
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328 Mickle Street
Camden New Jersey U S America
Jan. 7 '851
Yours of Dec. 25 rec'd—with £1 for books—I forward them by this mail—Leaves of Grass and Specimen Days—two Vols—
—As soon as they reach you safely will you kindly send me a card notifying me?2—
Walt Whitman
Correspondent:
Ellen Mary Abdy-Williams
(1857–1937) was a British author and journalist, who began editing the
literary periodical Time in 1885. She was married to
education reformer Bernhard Whishaw (1857–1914) and published some of her
work as "Mrs. Bernhard Whishaw."
Notes:
1. This postal card is addressed: E M Abdy-Williams | Care of Messrs. Sonnenchein | Time monthly office | White Hart Street Paternoster Square | London EC England. It is postmarked: CAMDEN | Jan | 7 | 2 PM | 1885 | N.J.; PHILADELPHIA, P.A. | JAN | (?) | (?) [back]
2. The two volumes miscarried, as Miss Abdy-Williams informed Whitman on March 18; he sent other copies on March 31 (Whitman's Commonplace Book). [back]