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Walt Whitman to E. H. Hames & Co., 16 January 1881

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to E. H. Hames & Co., 16 January 1881
  • Date: January 16, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: bow.00001
  • Source: Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Stefan Schöberlein Kirsten Clawson Nima Najafi Kianfar Nicole Gray Elizabeth Lorang
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to E. H. Hames & Co., 16 January 1881." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 04 December 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: bow.00001.xml (TEI)
 bow.00001.001_large.jpg 431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Jan: 16 '81 E H Hames & Co: Dear Sirs

Thanks for your kind invitation to write an article on Longfellow for the World—but I shall have to decline—I cannot get my wits to work to say any thing on that subject that I should like to have go forth, satisfactory to myself. Please see an article by me in the forthcoming number of the N A​ Review for February, in which I have ventilated some of my notions on Poetry in America. The article from the London Times (June '78) there alluded to & partially extracted from, ought to be printed here in this country in full—how would you like to do it?—would make ¾ or less of one of your pages close—if yes I will send you the Times with it in.

Walt Whitman  bow.00001.002_large.jpg
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