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Walt Whitman (1819-1892) to Abraham Paul Leech (1815-1886), September 9, 1840Transcription>> Return to exhibition object
. . .'O how my spirit springs and grows elastic at the idea of leaving this diabolical, and most particularly cursed locality! . . . old school-room, dirty-faced urchins, and moth eaten desk, I bid ye all a long farewell |
. . . my purgatory here is just finishing--In a few days more
I shall be unbound and unloosed-- 