. . . last letter—I wrote to H1 day before yesterday—I am at
my 2d annex for L of G.2 (to conclude it)—Sold two books
Friday—God bless you all—
Walt Whitman
Correspondent:
As yet we have no information about
this correspondent.
Notes
- 1. "H" may be Horace
Traubel, Thomas B. Harned, or Harry Stafford, probably the last named. Although
Whitman was at work on his final edition in 1890, this letter may have been sent
in the following year. [back]
- 2. Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it
included both poetry and short prose works commenting on poetry, aging, and
death, among other topics. Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as
"Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass
(1891–1892), the last edition of Leaves of Grass
published before Whitman's death in March 1892. For more information see, Donald
Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt
Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New
York: Garland Publishing, 1998). [back]