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Walt Whitman to Whitelaw Reid, 12 July [1878]

My dear Reid

I forward you same mail with this the little "Passage to India" we spoke of, with the "Captain" bit in.

If convenient have the pay for my letter of July 4 in Tribune ($20) sent me here.2

I am well, for me—All the better for my pleasant NY jaunt.

Walt Whitman

Notes

  • 1. Whitman mentioned in his Commonplace Book this letter and Passage to India (1871), in which "O Captain! My Captain!" appears (Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). On July 17 Reid thanked Whitman for the book. [back]
  • 2. Whitman received the payment on July 19 (Whitman's Commonplace Book). [back]
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