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there & back—Love, love, love, Your old Walt I still make my headquarters in Camden— Walt Whitman to Peter
him a visit this fall—& now good bye for this time, my own loving boy— Your Old Walt Walt Whitman to Peter
—Love to Mr and Mrs Nash—Love to you my darling son, & here is a kiss for you— WW Walt Whitman to Peter
All work seem'd seemed play to him.
, Whitman introduced the Gilchrists to Joaquin Miller and took them on December 27 to see Miller's play
Whitman himself had attended the opening of the play on December 24; see Miller's December 1877 letter
taken in 1877, then Whitman may have been referring to this image when he wrote from Philadelphia to Peter
.☞ They scared me tho' , and made me think "God" would rather do so than not—to "play the Devil with"