Walt Whitman to Benjamin Ticknor, 28 June 1882

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Title: Walt Whitman to Benjamin Ticknor, 28 June 1882
Date: June 28, 1882
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: loc.05081
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, 1961–1977), 295. 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 Benjamin Ticknor, 28 June 1882." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 20 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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Rees Welsh & Co.,
. . .
Philadelphia, June 28 1882 My dear Ben: Ticknor

I wish you would do me the favor to have the steel plate, (we used in L of G) properly enveloped & sent by express, directed to Rees Welsh & Co: 23 south 9th street, (as above.) I have forgotten the address of your plate printer in B[oston] who has it.1

Yours (notwithstanding) Walt Whitman

Notes

1. On May 19 Ticknor advised J. W. Daniels, of Boston, to hold the plate subject to Whitman's orders (The Library of Congress, Washington D.C.). [back]