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                <title level="m" type="main">Walt Whitman to Josiah Child, 27 June 1879</title>
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                <author>Walt Whitman</author>
                <editor>Kenneth M. Price</editor>
                <editor>Ed Folsom</editor>
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                <sponsor>University of Iowa</sponsor>
                <funder>National Historical Publications and Records Commission</funder>
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                    <addrLine>319 Love Library</addrLine>
                    <addrLine>University of Nebraska-Lincoln</addrLine>
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                    <date when="1879-06-27" rend="right">June 27 '79</date>
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                <salute>Dear Mr Child</salute>       
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            <p>Upon coming back here I found the "<hi rend="underline">Tobacco</hi> <hi rend="underline">Plants</hi>" all right—Thanks to you for them, (&amp; many favors &amp; attentions)—I <choice><abbr>rec'd</abbr><expan>received</expan></choice> about a week ago the P O draft for $15.20 from Mr Fraser, for my article, &amp; immediately notified Mr F.<ptr target="loc.01265_n2"/></p>
            
            <p>I am well, for me—am taking a rest from my three months' visit to New York—our <hi rend="underline">heated</hi> <hi rend="underline">term</hi> now here.</p>
            
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