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So Boston Mass. from CB Whitman | Boston Feb 1 '78 C.B. Whitman to Walt Whitman, 31 January 1878
Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be 1 What thou art promised: 2 yet do I fear thy nature; Mrs.
the one would shrink in horror from the other See Sir Henry Elliot's famous despatch, Blue Book No. 1,
We got our baby just as the heat began, July 1 st , & we have had our hands full.
I've thought lately these pieces would make a good, orderly arranged little book by itself. 1—Carol of
Axe Poem escaped me till lately (it is grand) I have a young, poor farmer (of 26) new acquaintance, 1¼
I wish to keep J.B.s book, and I sent part pay ($1) in my Feb-letter.
taken at Morand's cor Arch & 9th Phil: for Michener, cor Arch & 10th" (Daybooks and Notebooks, vol. 1,
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America Oct 1 '78— Dear Sirs Yours of Sept 14 with $14 for Two
Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Trübner & Company, 1 October 1878
Walt Whitman to Edward Carpenter, 1 September [1878]
Camden Aug. 1 I will send only a line this time—as I have written to Herb at some length, & ab't about
dear friend, of any literary utterance or personal news— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 1
Camden Sunday Sept 1 5 p m Still keep real well & hearty considering—Anticipate visiting Wash[ington]
Very hot here to-day—bad for yellow fever if prevalent, & continuous— W W Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 1
Tribune New York, July 17, 1 [Whit]man: I thought we ha cheque on last Sa inquiry that it I hasten to
The poem had first appeared in the London Athenaeum, on 1 April 1876.
(No. 1), under the heading A Fine Winter Day on the Beach.
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