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                <author>Walt Whitman</author>
                <editor>Kenneth M. Price</editor>
                <editor>Ed Folsom</editor>
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                <salute>Dear Harry</salute>
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            <p>I wrote Bart Bonsall a note yesterday about getting you a situation, &amp; stopt there <choice><abbr>ab't</abbr><expan>about</expan></choice> noon to see him <choice><orig>to-day</orig><reg>today</reg></choice>—but they told me he was away &amp; would not be back <choice><orig>to-day</orig><reg>today</reg></choice>—There is no news to write—all goes on pretty much the same with me—Harry, I send you a couple of <choice><orig>to-day</orig><reg>today</reg></choice>'s papers—Things rather dull with me—I am only middling well—(have probably banged around too much the last three months &amp; too much excitement)—</p>
          
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                <p>I will be down Saturday in the 4½ p m train<ptr target="nyp.00410_n3"/>—</p>
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