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Jersey City,
Aug. 19th. 1891.
Mr Walt. Whitman,
Camden, N.J.
Dear Sir:—
Please send me by express, C.O.D. or as you may choose, a copy of your
Farewell.1
Very sincerely yours,
B. A. Watson,
108 York st.
Dictated.
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Correspondent:
As yet we have no information about
this correspondent.
Notes
- 1. Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it
included both poetry and short prose works commenting on poetry, aging, and
death, among other topics. Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as
"Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass
(1891–1892), the last edition of Leaves of Grass
published before Whitman's death in March 1892. For more information see, Donald
Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt
Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New
York: Garland Publishing, 1998). [back]