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Please send us,1
as before, a copy of the
two volume edition of your
Poems—enclose memo. of cost
& we will remit.
Yours very truly,
A. Williams & Co.
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Notes
- 1. Whitman pasted this letter
together with a piece of another letter, and on the back wrote part of a prose
draft titled "Poetry in America—Shakspere—the Future." What remains
of this letter is not dated, but surrounding letters are dated 1880, so it is
likely also from that year. [back]