Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 3 February [1877]

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Title: Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 3 February [1877]
Date: February 3, 1877
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01127
Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.

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: Alicia Bones Grace Thomas Eder Jaramillo Kevin McMullen Nicole Gray Kenneth Price
Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 3 February [1877]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 09 November 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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loc.01127.002_large.jpg 1929 north 22d St Phila :1 Feb 3

I send the second MS back to-day.2 The first I sent some four or five days ago. I am pretty well for me

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1. This postcard bears the address: John Burroughs | Esopus-on-Hudson | New York. It is postmarked: Philadelphia | Feb | 3 | 10 PM | Pa. [back]
2. This is a reference to Burroughs's Birds and Poets (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1877). See Walt Whitman's letter to Burroughs on January 24, 1877. [back]