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GRAND UNION HOTEL
OPPOSITE GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT.1
Fourth (Park) Avenue, 41st and 42d Streets.
W. D. Garrison, Manager.
NEW YORK,
Sep 5 1885
Dear Mr Whitman:—
Please do not forget that are to give me a synopsis of your forthcoming work. If you
give me the material, [cut away] will be the
[cut away]2
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Notes
- 1. The left side of the Grand
Union Hotel letterhead reads: "[PASSENGERS] arriving in the city [of New York]
via Grand Central [Depot, save] $3 Carriage Hire and [Transfer of] Baggage
by stopping [at] the Grand Union Hotel, opposite said depot. Passengers arriving
by West Shore Rail Road, via Weehawken Ferry, by taking the 42d street Horse
Cars at Ferry entrance, reach Grand Union Hotel in ten minutes for 5 cents, and
save $3 Carriage Hire." The right side reads: "600 Elegant Rooms, $1 and
upwards per day. European Plan. Elevators, Restaurant, Café, Lunch and Wine
Rooms, supplied with the best. Prices moderate. Families can live better for
less money at the Grand Union than at any other strictly first class hotel in
the city. Guests' Baggage delivered to and from Grand Central Depot, free."
Missing text, indicated in brackets, has been supplied from a hotel circular
published on Making of America Books. [back]
- 2. The rest of this letter has
been torn away. Whitman crossed out the letter and wrote a series of notes on
the back. [back]