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 med.00681 Walt Whitman Edwin Haviland Miller The Correspondence New York New York University Press 1961–1977 3 334–335 Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 29 March [1883] March 29, 1883 The current location of this manuscript is unknown. Walt Whitman John Burroughs added schematron declaration checked, corrected, updated orgName updated ID proofed checked, corrected encoded Camden March 29

I have run over the Carlyle proof & being in the mood have thought best to mark (of course for your consideration—you may have something behind which I do not see) out certain passages just as they summarily imprest me—clearly though rapidly feeling as I went along that the article would be bettered & more unitary without them. What you set out mainly to say & have to say, seems to me very well said indeed, & I like the article—What you have to offer as the Carlyle-foil, in defence of America, I dont don't like so well—(besides it is unnecessary any how—Unless one has got something outsmashing C himself—a battery-ram that batters his ram to the dust)—

Write when you can—Do you want me to send you papers or any thinganything?—always yours

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