Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 26 July 1889 a machine readable transcription Walt Whitman Kenneth M. Price Ed Folsom Transcription and encoding Braden Krien Ryan Furlong Breanna Himschoot Ashlyn Stewart Stephanie Blalock Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Iowa National Historical Publications and Records Commission 2019 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 loc.07684 Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 26 July 1889 July 26, 1889 MSS18630, Box 6, Reel 3–4 The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Walt Whitman Richard Maurice Bucke final corrections final check, corrected Added images second check first check transcribed, encoded Camden dusk July 26 '89

A word first for Pardee—gone over then to the majority, where we are all steadily tending "for reasons"—blessed be his memory!

—have just eaten my supper, stew'd chicken & rice—feel poorly these days & nights— a shade easier this evn'g—the heat I suppose has sapp'd & Indigestion's talons are fix'd on me again—yours rec'd this P M—cooler —a rain in prospect—

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