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Carlyle's words

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  • Title: Carlyle's words
  • Date: Around 1888
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman | Unknown | Horace Traubel
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.03440
  • Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Notes written on manuscript: On surface 1, in the hand of Horace Traubel: "see notes Nov. 10, 1888"
  • Contributors to digital file: Lauren Grewe Ty Alyea Nicole Gray Matt Cohen Ashlyn Stewart
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt, Unknown, and Horace Traubel. "Carlyle's words." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 09 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.03440.xml (TEI)

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Textual Feature Appearance
Whitman's hand blue double overline and underline
Highlighting yellow background with top and bottom border
Paste-on gray box with black borders
Laid in white box with black borders
Erasure white text with dark gray background
Overwritten brown with strikethrough
[begin surface 1] see notes Nov. 10, 1888
Mr. Walt. Whitman, Camden, N.J. Dear Sir:—

Some four of five weeks ago I wrote you for your autograph, but have as yet received no reply. Will you not kindly favor me by early mail? It will be greatly appreciated.

Yours very truly, M. Ida Phares,
Carlyle's words: ......"this poor, diminishing, quack world" Another time "this poor muddy world."
[begin surface 2]
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