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        <title level="m" type="main">Walt Whitman to William J. Linton, 28 March [1875]</title>
        <title level="m" type="sub">a machine readable transcription</title>
        <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>University of Iowa</sponsor>
        <funder>National Historical Publications and Records Commission</funder>
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              <date notBefore="1961" notAfter="1977">1961–1977</date>
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          <name type="place" rend="right">431 Stevens st. <lb/> Cor West. <lb/> Camden, <lb/> N.
            Jersey</name>. <date when="1875-03-28" rend="right">Sunday</date>, <date when="1875-03-28" rend="right">March 28</date>. </dateline>
        <salute>Dear Linton,<ptr target="n0360"/></salute>
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      <p>My note of yesterday, (or day before,) <hi rend="italic">asking for the bill</hi> was
        written in the midst of a splitting headache—&amp; without fully reading yours. </p>

      <p>To-day, better, I have just taken up yours to read a second time, (as I generally do with
        my friends' letters,) &amp; see your kind &amp; friendly gift to me of the prints<ptr target="yal.00420_n1"/>—which I accept with thanks &amp; pleasure. </p>

      <p>Two days now of fine weather—which I fancy is telling on me, as well as on the frozen
        ground &amp; sap in the trees—</p>

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        <salute>Love to you—</salute>
        <signed rend="right">Walt Whitman</signed>
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