431 Stevens Street1
Camden New Jersey U S
America
April 9 '81
Dear Sir
Yours of March 26th rec'd .2 I send my two Vols:
Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets, by
mail same address as this note. The price is $10, which please remit by p.o.
order, if convenient. You will find autograph in the Vols:
Walt Whitman
Notes
- 1. Although no envelope is
now with the card, Whitman sent books on April 6, 1881, to Albert D. Shaw
(1857–1947), who at the time was the United States Consul in Manchester,
England; see Daybooks and Notebooks, ed. William White
(New York: New York University Press, 1978), 1:237. He was the founder and
editor of the American Review of Reviews from 1891 to
1937 and author of Abraham Lincoln (1929). [back]
- 2. Shaw's letter to
Whitman on March 26, 1881, is apparently lost. [back]