Walt Whitman to an Editor, 29 December 1864

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Title: Walt Whitman to an Editor, 29 December 1864
Date: December 29, 1864
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00837
Source: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 245. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
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Dec 29 1864 Private note to Editor:1

Sir, I send you a communication which I hope you will publish for sake of the soldiers dying & suffering in Southern prisons—Would it be convenient also to say a few words editorially? I have taken the liberty to send you a few lines myself—if they are not acceptable, substitute something else—

Walt Whitman

122 Portland av near Myrtle Brooklyn

Notes

1. Whitman evidently sent "The Prisoners" to other newspapers in addition to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and the New York Times. Later in life he sometimes sent a communication to as many as twelve newspapers. [back]