Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 20 December [1876] a machine readable transcription Walt Whitman Kenneth M. Price Ed Folsom Transcription and encoding The Walt Whitman Archive Staff Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Iowa National Historical Publications and Records Commission 2012 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 loc.02846 The following are responsible for particular readings or for changes to this file, as noted: Kenneth M. Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Edwin Haviland Miller Walt Whitman The Correspondence New York New York University Press 1961–1977 71 3 Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 20 December [1876] December 20, 1876 MSS18630 The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Walt Whitman John Burroughs added schematron declaration blessedchecked encoded extracted transcription from Major Authors cd 431 Stevens st Camden N J Dec 20

Glad to hear from you—as by your card of 17th just rec'd. Very glad to hear of S[ula] having got home "well & hearty"—Sheets you speak of, not yet come to hand.

I am better this winter, seems almost decidedly—banged bad enough yet, but the bad deathly spells are very rare, (almost unknown) the last three months—I want to go to N Y city in January—to J H Johnstons (in 10th street)—his jewelry store is at 150 Bowery, cor Broome—call & see him—quite a lull in my book selling, & in my affairs, & literary doings, generally—

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