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                <author>Walt Whitman</author>
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                <editor>Ed Folsom</editor>
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            <p>Thanks, dear Colonel,<ptr target="loc.04041_n2"/> for your kind letter &amp; for your books, which have reached me safely—many thanks—I am well as usual of late years—</p>

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