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                <author>Walt Whitman</author>
                <editor>Kenneth M. Price</editor>
                <editor>Ed Folsom</editor>
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                    <name>The Walt Whitman Archive Staff</name>
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                <sponsor>Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of
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                <sponsor>University of Iowa</sponsor>
                <funder>National Historical Publications and Records Commission</funder>
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            <p>I wish to send a little box of grapes to Nelly—please go down to the Central Produce store on the N. side Avenue bet. 10th &amp; 11th sts &amp; get them when you go to dinner—</p>
            
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