Autograph Note Signed, Walt Whitman to Courtland Palmer

by Walt Whitman

$3,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Oblong 12mo. Postcard, autograph text recto and verso, franked. Light toning along right edge, with small crease lower right corner. Addressed to Lewes in London. Correspondence 1886-1889, #1650. Item #373592 Whitman declines an invitation to either attend or to speak, most likely at the 19th Century Club in in New York City: My best respects & thanks to you, & to the Club – but I am Disabled & cannot avail myself of the kind

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