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Camden NJ1
Jan: 2 '91
The sun is just out the first in four days—(has been very glum)—
—y'r good letter came this mn'g2 & was welcomed—Matters continue on
much the same with me—
—try to while away the time reading & writing,—am preparing a 2d
annex & completion to L of G.3 Am sitting here in my 2d story room
same—
affectionate uncle
Walt Whitman
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Correspondent:
Jessie Louisa Whitman
(1863–1957) was the second and youngest daughter of Whitman's brother
Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Whitman (1833–1890) and Jeff's wife Martha
Mitchell Whitman (1836–1873).
Notes
- 1. This postal card is
addressed: Miss Jessie Louisa Whitman | 2437 2d Carondelet Av: | Saint Louis
Missouri. It is postmarked: Camden [illegible] | Jan 2 | 6 PM | 91. [back]
- 2. This letter may not survive. [back]
- 3. Thirty-one poems from
Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) were later
printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy 2d Annex" to 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]