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My Dearest Friend: I feel as if I didn't a bit deserve the glorious budget you sent me yesterday, for
live amongst anywhere in the world—and in this respect it has been good to give up having a home of my
outdoor life & the entirely simple, unpretending, cordial, friendly ways of Concord & its inhabitants won my
Camden Thursday afternoon March 28 My dear friends I am still grunting & unable to go out Walt Whitman
Louis, Oct 27th 1878 My dear Walt Tis a long time since I have heard from any of you—but I suppose all
well until we had a "cold wave" about two weeks ago—since that time I have felt the very best—and too my
go and get well as quick as she can—I hope to hear in a day or two that she is all well again Give my
SCOVEL, 113 Arch Street, Camden, N.J., Feby 23, 1878 Walt Whitman Esq My Dear "Old Boy" James M.
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Dec 12 My dear friend As the holidays come on I would like to make
Camden New Jersey May 27 —I have to-day sent by mail, same address as this card, my Volume Leaves of
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Nov 27 My dear Reid If convenient please send me the pay for the
Camden New Jersey U S America July 26 I have to-day today sent, same address as this card, my Two Volumes—Please
Camden New Jersey U S America July 28 '78 — I have to-day today forwarded by mail Two sets of my works—four
Camden New Jersey U S America April 29 '78 Dear Sir In answer to yours of 14th—I send by mail postpaid my
I have to-day today forwarded by mail, to same address as this card, my Two Vols.
New York July 5 Still here—still quite well—sent you a paper yesterday with my "June" letter in —Shall
thanks—and if I may impose on your generosity I should be please pleased to have a lett letter for my
I remember I sent you on the 29th of April last some circulars, slips, price-advertisements &c. of my
friend Ch: Johnson a few evenings since on the ferry—had quite a talk about you, &c— Nothing very new in my
are at Northampton, Mass:—all well—(B[eatrice] is at the Woman's Hospital Boston)—This place is still my
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America Dec 10 '78 My dear Josiah Child Yours of Nov: 23d duly
June 26 P M Dear John & 'Sula I got in all right before sundown—Still keep well, (& all the better for my
good flesh, appetite & trim generally—Only return'd last night from a long jaunt & absence down at my
(In my last letter among the names proposed was S S Cox, M C— I wish that name cancelled )—I should well
holidays—I shall send him your present address—havn't seen E's portrait yet—I am writing this up in my
and think, 'Well, this great thing has been, and all that is now left of it is the feeble print upon my
brain, the little th rill which memory will send along my nerves, mine and my neighbours'; as we live
reading them, can be attached to their opinion at page 8 of the report R OBERT S PENCER OBINSON In my
radiation, &c. as to its fitness, appropriateness, advantage (or disadvantage) with reference to me , to my
This have I thought good to deliver thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou mightest not lose
I must end my letter now so it is good by bye Elmer E.
The baby is lying on the lounge in my room as I write, I hear him nestle & see that his eyes are open
me—I am only middling well, but go about—rheumatism not yet subdued—threatens to partially disable my
He work'd worked at my father's, and had done so for two years.
reckon,’ he adds, with quaint colloquial arrogance, ‘I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my
afternoons and sitting by him, and he liked to have me—liked to put out his arm and lay his hand on my
were hurt by being blamed by his officers for something he was entirely innocent of—said ‘I never in my