Camden New Jersey1
U S AmericaOct 242—
I send you to-day, to same address as this card, my Two Volumes3—Please notify me, (by postal card will do) soon as
they reach you safely
WW
Correspondent:
As yet we have no information about
this correspondent.
Notes
- 1. This letter is addressed: H
R Ricardo | Camden Cottage Christ Church road | Hampstead N W | London England.
It is postmarked: Camden | Oct 24 | N.J. [back]
- 2. Though he addressed the
note October 24, Whitman wrote in his Daybooks and
Notebooks that it "went probably Oct 25" (Daybooks
and Notebooks, ed. William White [New York: New York University Press,
1978], 1:45). [back]
- 3. The 1876 editions of
Two Rivulets and Leaves of
Grass, inscribed "H R Ricardo | from the author" are also in the Reed
Collection. [back]