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the 1850s (Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 1:
Camden Wednesday Evn'g Evening Dec: December 1— 1880 Dear Hank Nothing very new with me the last two
Love to your father & mother, not forgetting your share dear son— Walt Walt Whitman to Harry Stafford, 1
is blowing a south west gale around here—I suppose it is pretty cold at Atlantic —It is now ¼ after 1—
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Nov 1 '80 According to your letter just rec'd received I forward
Williams & Company, 1 November 1880
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: Tuesday, January 1, 1878 CHICAGO IN 1877.
Propellers 15 4,912 Steam canal-boats 27 2,491 Tugs 62 1,863 Barks 13 4,486 Brigs 3 1,016 Sloop-yacht 1
not far from 6 per cent higher, as measured against gold; so that we have an actual increase of above 1
Ingram to Walt Whitman, 1 August 1880
Lakes of the Thousand Islands St Lawrence River Aug 1 I am here in a handsome little steam yacht (owned
Quebec—then to the Saguenay river—back in London Aug 14— W W Walt Whitman to Thomas Jefferson Whitman, 1
Woodland Villas Totley nr near Sheffield. 1-July-1880 Dear Walt, I had a call a week or two ago from
Yours, dear friend, E Carpenter Edward Carpenter to Walt Whitman, 1 July 1880
I now enclose order for £1. for "Leaves of Grass" which please direct to "Miss Macdonald, c/o Professor
Will you send me a copy of your "Leaves of Grass" (I enclose P.O.O. for £1), address it to "Miss Macdonald
I hope yet before I die to see the whole book published at about $1. and in the hands of the every where
March 1, 1880. Mr.
Ferguson to Walt Whitman, 1 March 1880
please find a draft for twenty ($20.) dollars for which please send me 3 copies of "Leaves of Grass" and 1
engaging & pretty in his ways every day—rapid indeed is the opening of the little bud at that age—between 1
.00534Whitman's "Emerson's Books, (Shadows of Them)," [n.d.], galley proof with holograph corrections, [1]