FEINBERG/WHITMAN
Box 42 Folder 51 Notes and Notebooks Note--Reference Nov. 1888 Thomas Carlyle's words
Includes letter from M. Ida Phares, 1888.All notes Nov.10,1888

Mr. Walt. Whitman,
Camden, N.J.
Dear Sir:-
Some four of five weeks ago I wrote you for your autograph, but have as yet received no reply. Will you not kindly favor me by early mail? It will be greatly appreciated.
Yours very truly, 
M. Ida Phares,

Carlyle's words:
......"this poor Dimini thing, quack world: Another time "this poor muddy world."312
1888 10 November Carlyle's Words: prose. A.MS. (1p. 19 x 20 cm)

Written in ink at the bottom of a cancelled typed letter, .with letterhead and date torn off, with notation by Traubel in upper corner (See Notes Nov. 10, 1888), letter reading (Mr. Walt. Whitman, Camden, N. J. Dear Sir:- Some four or five weeks ago I wrote you for your autograph, but have as yet received no reply. Will you not kindly favor me by early mail? It will be greatly appreciated. Yours very truly, M. Ida Phares.),
13 words:
Carlyle's words:
...... "this poor, diminishing, quack world" Another time "this poor muddy world."