Asylum, London,
March 12, 831
I have yours of 9th2 &
proofs down to galley No
183—If 1st batch
proofs not reached you yet go on without it, no important corrections as far as I
remember—You need not send O'Connor's letter4 or Good Gray Poet to me in proof
I will leave them to you &
him—I will mail 3d &
4th batches back to you
tomorrow morning—I am well satisfied on the whole so far
R M B.
Notes
- 1. This letter is addressed:
Walt Whitman | 431 Stevens Street | Camden | New Jersey U.S.A. It is postmarked:
LONDON | PM | MR 12 | 83 | CANADA; CAMDEN, N.J. | MAR | 14 | 2 PM | RECD. [back]
- 2. Whitman's letter to
Bucke of March 9, 1883, is recorded among the lost letters (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller [New York:
New York University Press, 1961–1977], 3:438). [back]
- 3. Whitman made the
following entries in his Commonplace Book: 6 March 1883: "Dr Bucke's book now in
the hands of the printers—Sherman & Co: Phila." 9 March 1883:
"—sent to Dr B galleys 13 to 17–18—in mail 1 o'c also letter"
(Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919,
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). [back]
- 4. Bucke is referring to
the letter O'Connor wrote as a preface to The Good Gray
Poet ("Mr. O'Connor's Letter, 1883," Walt
Whitman [Philadelphia: David McKay, 1883], 73–98). [back]