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Eastern Michigan Asylum1
Pontiac, Mich. Jany 22 1881
Walt Whitman Esq
My Dear Sir:
I take great pleasure [cut away] acknowledging the receipt of your [cut away] Volume of "Leaves [cut away]2
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Correspondent:
C. B. Burr became medical
superintendent of the Eastern Michigan Asylum in 1889, after working as an
assistant physician and an assistant superintendent.
Notes
- 1. On the envelope pasted to
this letter is the following return address (associated with a different
letter): "Return to D. RANSOM, SON & CO., | BUFFALO, N. Y., | If not
delivered within 10 days. [back]
- 2. The signature to this letter
has been cut away, but Whitman made the following note in his Commonplace Book
for January 18, 1881: "Sent "Leaves of Grass" to C B Burr M D. | Asylum for the
Insane Pontiac Mich: | recd | paid" (Daybooks and
Notebooks, ed. William White [New York: New York University Press,
1977], 1:220). [back]