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Title: Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 12 October [1875]
Date: October 12, 1875
Source: The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman,The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 5:301–302. For a detailed description of discrepancies between this electronic edition and the print source, see our statement of editorial policy.
Location: Private collection of Dr. R. J. H. DeLoach
Whitman Archive ID: prc.00045
431 Stevens st.
cor West.
Camden,
N. Jersey,
Oct. 12
Address: John Burroughs, Esopus, Ulster co New York.
Postmark: Camden Oct 12N.J.
Since Whitman went to Washington on November 8, 1875 (see Whitman's November 3, [1875],
and November 5, [1875], letters to Peter Doyle),
1875 appears to be a plausible date.
Your good letter rec'd. I am no worse—can hardly say better, either, (though if any difference, it is that)—C. W. E[ldridge] called to see me on his way back to Wash. & has written to me from there since. O'C[onnor] is well & flourishing. I think of soon going to Wash. for a few days—
W W.