Walt Whitman to Ainsworth R. Spofford, [September(?) 1881]

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Title: Walt Whitman to Ainsworth R. Spofford, [September(?) 1881]
Date: September 1881
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: loc.05056
Source: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1964), 247. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
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Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Ainsworth R. Spofford, [September(?) 1881]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 04 December 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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My dear Mr Spofford1

If convenient won't you inform me soon as possible by letter here, of the dates of my copyrights on Leaves of Grass—I think they were in 1856, 1860, 1866 (or 7) and in 1876—but want to know exactly—

Walt Whitman

If you have a printed slip or abstract of the copyright laws, please enclose that also.

address me Boston care Osgood & Co: 211 Tremont Street

Notes

1. This is a draft of a letter sent to the Librarian of Congress during Whitman's Boston stay. See also Whitman's draft of a later letter to Spofford, written around August 1, 1882. [back]