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Walt Whitman to William C. and Francis P. Church, 19 May 1871

 loc.01291.001_large.jpg Messrs. Church,1 My friends,

If convenient, please remit to me, here, a check for $25 in pay for "O Star of France".

Yours truly Walt Whitman  loc.01291.002_large.jpg

Notes

  • 1. William Conant Church (1836–1917), journalist and publisher, was a correspondent for several New York newspapers until he founded The Army and Navy Journal in 1863. With his brother Francis Pharcellus (1839–1906), he established the Galaxy in 1866. Financial control of the Galaxy passed to Sheldon and Company in 1868, and it was absorbed by the Atlantic Monthly in 1878. W. C. published a biography of his life-long friend U.S. Grant in 1897, and F. P. wrote for the New York Sun the unsigned piece "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." See E. F. Grier, "Walt Whitman, the Galaxy, and Democratic Vistas," American Literature, 23 (1951–1952), 332–350; D. N. Bigelow, William Conant Church & "The Army and Navy Journal" (New York: Columbia University Press, 1952); J. R. Pearson, Jr., "Story of a Magazine: New York's Galaxy, 1866–1878," Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 61 (1957), 217–237, 281–302. [back]
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