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Walt Whitman to Richard J. Hinton, 3 November 1866

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Richard J. Hinton, 3 November 1866
  • Date: November 3, 1866
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: khs.00001
  • Source: Richard Josiah Hinton Collection, Kansas State Historical Society. Miller's publication was based on a transcription by Professor Carroll Hollis. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 289-290. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang Brett Barney Vanessa Steinroetter Alyssa Olson
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Richard J. Hinton, 3 November 1866." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 26 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: khs.00001.xml (TEI)
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, Nov. 3, 1866. Dear Hinton,

The bearer, my friend, Mr. Shambaugh,1 was showing me a letter he has received, (he is on a Committee of Sold. & Sail. Union League)—I think it ought to be published in full. You make a brief introduction to it & let it go in a Sunday Chronicle.2 Let him have a proof when it is set up, to bring to me.

Yours &c

Walt Whitman

Notes

  • 1. Shambaugh has not been identified. [back]
  • 2. Probably Whitman wanted the letter printed in the Washington Sunday Chronicle. [back]
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