Sidney H. Morse to Walt Whitman, [9 August 1879] a machine readable transcription Walt Whitman Kenneth M. Price Ed Folsom Transcription and encoding Grace Thomas Alicia Bones Eder Jaramillo Nicole Gray Stefan Schöberlein Elizabeth Lorang Marie Ernster Amanda J. Axley 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.03156 Walt Whitman Sidney H. Morse to Walt Whitman, [9 August 1879] August 9, 1879 MSS18630, Box 13, Reel 8 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms004014.mss18630.00284 The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Walt Whitman Sidney H. Morse Walt Whitman revised notes added callno and DOI added schematron declaration annotations added checked, corrected Checked and Corrected checked and corrected encoded Dear friend

I've been "vacating", &c, &c,—down the harbor loafing. So your letter enclosing "phiz" that came some days ago was not attended to. Thanks for the presentment! A right fine looking fellow—but if he could cross the Rocky Mountains or go on a whaling voyage & get a touch of worldliness into him, he'd be all the better. You mustn't enjoy nature too much, but roll in the dirt & tear your britches. Ask your sister if this isn't so!

You must have had a sweltering time in Phila—or Camden—this last month—We have been fairly done brown some days.

It is 6 o.c. Sat. P.M. I'm tired & fidgety to get out of doors. Have been clearing up my studio, so I can feel a little decent on Sunday.

Did I write you I had moved?—my shipingshipping apartments, I mean. I'm staying in one part of my studio for a few weeks. So direct all your letters here.

12 Coast St. Room 11
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I send you a paper with report of Concord lecture.

If this letter goes tonight so you can get it Monday, I must go down towndowntown with it, when I get .

So goodbye. Have a good vacation—standing on your head & drinking better milk!!!!!

Yours ever Morse SH Morse