[6] Whitman spent the Christmas of 1883 with friends in Germantown, Pennsylvania while his brother was building a farmhouse in Burlington, New Jersey that included accommodations for the poet.

[13] Whitman later invited Mary Davis, a sailor's widow living a few blocks away, to serve as his housekeeper in exchange for free rent in the house.

The two writers shared elderberry wine and Wilde later reflected, "There is no one in this great wide world of America home I love and honor so much".

[17] Another international visitor, an admirer named John Johnston, described meeting Whitman on a hot summer day in 1890, sitting cross-legged on a large rocking chair with his shirt open and sleeves rolled up above his elbows.

One was a sonnet published in the February 22, 1885, issue of the Philadelphia Press called "Ah, Not This Granite Dead and Cold" which commemorated the completion of the Washington Monument.

[15] Some of Whitman's writing was done in his bedroom, which visitors noted was similar to a newspaper office, piled with stacks of paper.

[13] Whitman's health had been failing since before he moved into the home, worsened by another stroke he suffered in 1888,[17] and he began making preparations for his death.

At the end of 1891, he wrote to a friend: "L. of G. at last complete—after 33 y'rs of hackling at it, all times & moods of my life, fair weather & foul, all parts of the land, and peace & war, young & old".

[23] In January 1892, an announcement was published in the New York Herald in which Whitman asked that "this new 1892 edition... absolutely supersede all previous ones.

[20] A public viewing of Whitman's body was also held at the Camden home; over one thousand people visited in three hours.

[28] The surrounding area was designated in 1970 as the Walt Whitman Neighborhood (ID# 935)[27] within the state, and the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 (NR reference #: 78001752).