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85 Camden New Jersey U S America Dear Herbert Gilchrist As I doubt I made some small misfiguring in my
OFFICE OF Special Agent Treasury Department, Camden NJ 5.7., 1885. 10 am My Dear Walt.
the other was lost in the mail | JR # 3 447-1928 328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey Dec: 15 '85—noon My
My Dear Walt.
All of us well—especially my two little boys, who enjoy the country life very much.
My Dear Walt Whitman: I am very, very sorry to learn that your physical condition is so low and that
It escaped me to mention in my previous letter that a Mr.
I go early in the morning (Sunday) to see Mary—my wife at Atlantic —but Monday will see you at 7 .
stands in the way won't you please state what you will ask for it, and then I shall have the matter off my
Louis, Sept. 11th 188 5 My dear Walt Enclosed please find check for $10—payable to your order This check
My Dear Walt.
All of us well—especially my two little boys, who enjoy the country life very much.
The Manhattan is going to be revived shortly and is to print my paper, called "Hamlet's Note-Book", the
the undulation of your one wave, its trick to me transfer W C ould you but breathe one breath upon my
Dec 6th 188 5 Mr Walt Whitman My Dear Old Friend.
Camden Sept. 8 '85 Just a line any how, dear Mary, to follow up the good wishes & invocations of my last
New Haven Conn: July 1, 1885 PO Box 489 My dear Whitman: I see by the papers that you may be going to
My plan is that sometime (any time) before the 1 st June John Burroughs should run down to Philadelphia
I am asked to invite you to come & read on one of the days, & I add to this my own earnest request that
Walt Whitman Esquire My Dear Sir: I take pleasure in soliciting your literary cooperation in an enterprise
Am laid up just now with a kick from my horse—luckily nothing very bad—he struck me (accidentally in
to you—to give you any notion of the good you have done me & again I think I speak for hundreds of my
"My young friend you ask me a difficult question.