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Walt Whitman to Richard W. Colles, 27 January 1888

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Richard W. Colles, 27 January 1888
  • Date: January 27, 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: mil.00002
  • Source: Albert M. Bender Collection, Special Collections Department, F. W. Olin Library, Mills College. 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: Blake Bronson-Bartlett Caterina Bernardini Stephanie Blalock
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Richard W. Colles, 27 January 1888." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 13 November 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: mil.00002.xml (TEI)
 mil.00002.001_large.jpg Camden New Jersey US America Jan: 27 '881

—I have been waiting to get good copies of "Specimen Days" wh' I shall have shortly, & will then immediately send one—I mail "Leaves of Grass" now—the price of the two vols. is one pound, wh' I wish you to send me here by p o order (328 Mickle Street)—Nothing very new or different—arctic cold here for the last fortnight—best regards to you & my Irish friends2—

Walt Whitman  mil.00002.002_large.jpg

Correspondent:
Richard W. Colles was probably one of the many students of Edward Dowden who became fervid admirers of Whitman. For more, see Philip W. Leon, "Dowden, Edward (1843–1913)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998).

Notes

  • 1. This letter is addressed: R W Colles | 26 Oxford Road Ranelagh | Dublin | Ireland. It is postmarked: Camde[n] | Jan (?) 1 30 (?) M | 88; Phila[delphi]a, Pa. | Jan | 28 | 1888 | Paid. [back]
  • 2. Colles replied on February 12, 1888. [back]
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