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Title: Walt Whitman to Charles Eldridge, 8 December [1874]
Date: December 8, 1874
Source: The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman,The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 5:300. For a detailed description of discrepancies between this electronic edition and the print source, see our statement of editorial policy.
Location: New York University, New York, N.Y.
Whitman Archive ID: nyu.00005
431 Stevens st.
cor West.
Camden,
N. Jersey.
Dec. 8.
Address: Chas. W. Eldridge Internal Revenue Bureau Washington, D.C.
Postmarks: Camden Dec 8N.J.; Carrier 9Dec 6(?) AM.
This postcard deals with the same material as that in Whitman's December 2, [1874], letter to Eldridge.
Yours rec'd this morning. Thanks for sending the books. Please duly send same address the Finance Rep't for 1874 when printed. Glad to get the item about Symonds's book Whitman refers here to John Addington Symonds' Studies of the Greek Poets (London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1873–1876), in which Whitman was lauded as "more thoroughly Greek than any man of modern times." —shall look for it. I am better—still head wavering, & stomach qualmish, but fainter spells & at longer intervals—am having to-day, & as I write, very tolerable conditions—
W W