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Camden, N.J. , February 1, 1875 [WW requests an accounting for the previous year.]
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Sampson, Low, & Company, 1
Hampden, Ohio, March 1, 1875 Kind sir, I received your card was glad to here hear from a soldiers friend
to from eny one anyone write again my respects and good wishes Manville Wintersteen to Walt Whitman, 1
April 1 Dear John, I have look'd looked over the Emerson notes —read them all over once—am precluded
, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Ashley Lawson Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 1
1[Before 1890?]
Queensbury February the 1 1875 Dear friend your ever welcom welcome letter has reached me all right and
Smith Bethuel's mother Feb. 1. '75 sent postal card, April 21, '75 he died the 4 of april in the year
are wating waiting forthe for the letter to cary carry to the village Maria Smith to Walt Whitman, 1
Is the $1 the right sum?
Sunday July 1 8—sitting in the extra d, airy hall or ope n s itting room common to the ed log buildings
stopped erge d a er growth young hickories are no vi suggestion of the presence of the great river 1
Postscript—Page 1 Did you ever have to pay postage because of a foolscap sheet being too maybe it is.
address 1 Toriano Torriano Gardens Camden Road, N.W.
1 Torriano Gardens Camden Rd. London Dec 4, 1875.
Falls iwent I went to meeting one Sunday evening and enjoyed my meting meeting firstrate there was 1
Philadelphia : November 1, 1875.