Walt Whitman to Charles Eldridge, 8 December [1874]

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Title: Walt Whitman to Charles Eldridge, 8 December [1874]
Date: December 8, 1874
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: nyu.00005
Source: New York University, New York, N.Y. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 300. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Charles Eldridge, 8 December [1874]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 17 November 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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431 Stevens st.
cor West.
Camden, N. Jersey. Dec. 8.1

Yours rec'd this morning. Thanks for sending the books. Please duly send same address the Finance Rep't for 1874 when printed. Glad to get the item about Symonds's book2—shall look for it. I am better—still head wavering, & stomach qualmish, but fainter spells & at longer intervals—am having to-day, & as I write, very tolerable conditions—

W W

Notes

1.
This postcard bears the address, "Chas. W. Eldridge | Internal Revenue Bureau | Washington, D.C." It is postmarked: "Camden | Dec | 8 | N.J.; Carrier | 9 | Dec | 6 (?) AM."

This postcard deals with the same material as that in Whitman's December 2, 1874 letter to Eldridge.
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2. Whitman refers here to John Addington Symonds' Studies of the Greek Poets (London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1873–1876), in which Whitman was lauded as "more thoroughly Greek than any man of modern times." [back]