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                <author>Walt Whitman</author>
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                <editor>Ed Folsom</editor>
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                    <name type="place">Camden New Jersey—</name>
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                            <abbr>Nov:</abbr>
                            <expan>November</expan>
                        </choice> 13 '81</date>
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            <p>I gratefully thank your paper &amp; the writer of the Boston Literary Letter in <choice>
                    <abbr>Nov:</abbr>
                    <expan>November</expan>
                </choice> 10th's issue—I have never had more comforting words—so noble
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