Walt Whitman to John H. Johnston, 20 December 1876 a machine readable transcription Walt Whitman Kenneth M. Price Ed Folsom Transcription and encoding Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Alex Kinnaman Cristin Noonan Erel Michaelis Stephanie Blalock Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Iowa National Historical Publications and Records Commission 2023 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 loc.02554 Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to John H. Johnston, 20 December 1876 December 20, 1876 MSS18630, Box 12, Reel 7–8 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms004014.mss18630.00249 The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Walt Whitman John H. Johnston final check, corrected checked, corrected checked, corrected, added notes added correspondent ref added annotations added schematron declaration made basic checking changes to file checked encoded extracted transcription from Major Authors cd Dec December 20 '76 My dear Johnston

Enclosed find check for $35 for which send me on immediately as good a gold watch, hunting case, middling showy in appearance & best inside you can give me for that sum. (Let me have it at wholesale price, only paying yourself what you pay for it). I want it for a Christmas present for a young man— Can't you send it by express to-night or tomorrow morning early?

Walt Whitman
431 Stevens st cor West Camden New Jersey

I might as well leave you some margin. If you think of something a little more price or different any how, better, send it along, as it can be changed, paid for, or made right when I come on in January—

I find I have no revenue stamp to put on check & cannot go out to get one—