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Walt Whitman to Brander Matthews, 6 September [1882]

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Brander Matthews, 6 September [1882]
  • Date: September 6, 1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: col.00019
  • Source: Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, New York. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 304. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Stefan Schoeberlein Nima Najafi Kianfar Eder Jaramillo Nicole Gray
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Brander Matthews, 6 September [1882]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 04 December 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: col.00019.xml (TEI)
Camden N J Sept: 6

I cheerfully give permission to print "O Captain My Captain" in your book1—

Walt Whitman

Notes

  • 1. Brander Matthews (1852–1929), professor of English literature at Columbia University from 1892 to 1924, included the poem in Poems of American Patriotism (1882), 268–269. [back]
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