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Samuel B. Wright to Walt Whitman, 21 May 1885

 loc_vm.02437_large.jpg Dear Sir:

Have you any other volume published besides "Leaves of Grass" and "Specimen Days & Collect"? I have these two, and have been acquainted with your writings for some time, altho​ but a young man as yet. I will be glad to procure any other volume you may have. I have seen in some public library (I think at Minneapolis and Cincinnati) a volume of biography, altho​ it seems to me now there were two different ones.

I would be pleased also to have a large picture of yourself, if any has ever been published. A cabinet photograph, at any rate. I will remit you whatever these may be worth. I understand you have no publisher now, altho​ "David McKay Phila.​ " appears on the title page of your books—

Awaiting with interest a line from you, I am Your Young Friend & Well-wisher Samuel B. Wright To Walt Whitman: Camden N.J.  loc_vm.02438_large.jpg

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