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No 66 Spring 2000

Walt Whitman (1819-1892), Letter, 1 November 1891, to Bernard O'Dowd. 'The Doctor says I have progressive paralysis, wh- is eligible to have a fatal termination any hour ... write me soon as you can'. MS 6237, Box 257/1. La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection. [photographs: envelope front]

Walt Whitman (1819-1892), Letter, 1 November 1891, to Bernard O'Dowd. ‘The Doctor says I have progressive paralysis, wh- is eligible to have a fatal termination any hour …write me soon as you can’. MS 6237, Box 257/1. La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection.