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Tuesday afternoon say by 2, (if convenient order it so, specifically) —It will make, I think, from 1½
to 1¾ columns—Can you use it in Wednesday's paper?
Dear Friend Settled for the winter I hope in very comfortable quarters— 1 Elm Villas Elm Row Health St
England Oct October 1: 1879 My dear Mr.
Richard Watson Gilder to Walt Whitman, 1 October 1879
I have only just heard that a foreign P O order for £1-1s (one pound, one shilling) was sent to me from
Nothing new with me—I am well, for me—I send you a Phila: paper with a letter —Cold winter here— Walt 1/
With much love John Burroughs Locusts & Wild Honey Contents Pages 1 The pastoral Bees 22 ¼ 2 Strawberries
mother is & 'Sula, also the baby, also Smith —Just got a postal from Mrs Gilchrist giving her address. 1
it all very much indeed—as I sit in the cars writing this, (have a leaf-table before me to write on) 1
She wrote at that time to you, enclosing a money order for £1-6-0 for one of your books, I think the
1 Elm Villas, Elm Row, Heath St. Hampstead, Dec. December 5, '79, London, England.