Autograph letter signed from Walt Whitman, Camden, N.J., to Edward Dowden, Dublin [manuscript], 1876 January 14.
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Title
Autograph letter signed from Walt Whitman, Camden, N.J., to Edward Dowden, Dublin [manuscript], 1876 January 14.
Description
1 leaf ; 24 x 14 cm
Scope and content
Whitman states that he finds Dowden's Shakspere "full of vitality & suggestiveness on themes that might be supposed exhausted years ago - but are not at all exhausted." Also refers a visit from John Burroughs and mentions W.M. Rossetti and M.D. Conway. With envelope addressed to Dowden at Temple Road, Winstead, Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland.
Note
Date from pencil annotation on letter.
Source of acquisition
Purchased from Walls, December 14, 1922.
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Place of creation/publication
United States -- New Jersey -- Camden.
Ireland -- Dublin.
Ireland -- Dublin.
Item Details
Call number
Y.c.2538
Folger accession
cs1107