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Walt Whitman to Josiah Child, 8 December 1881

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Josiah Child, 8 December 1881
  • Date: December 8, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.04928
  • Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Stefan Schoeberlein Nima Najafi Kianfar Nicole Gray Eder Jaramillo
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Josiah Child, 8 December 1881." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 21 November 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.04928.xml (TEI)
 loc_vm.01681_large.jpg 431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America Dec: 8 '811

First, thanks, heartfelt thanks, my friend, for your good will & deeds—finding a publisher, &c—I wish to know specifically whether Mr Bogue will take the Leaves & is content to be the London publisher in permanence as far as can be told at present. Please send me a circular of his publications—(you may show him this letter)—As far as I am concerned, I shall leave the matter entirely to you. If you think him the proper man & he is willing to take the book let him & his place—if Osgood & Co. say so—be the settled London publication office & depository

Walt Whitman  loc_vm.01682_large.jpg

Notes

  • 1. Whitman noted this letter in his Commonplace Book (Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). See the letter from Whitman to James R. Osgood & Company of December 8, 1881, and the letter to David Bogue of December 14, 1881. [back]
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