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Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger to Walt Whitman, 5 January 1878

 loc_ej.00628_large.jpg Mr. Whitman, Dear Sir:

Please send, in addition to the copies of Leaves of Grass, ordered by mail this morning, one copy of The Two Rivulets.

Will you kindly state on the bill, the1

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Notes

  • 1. The rest of this letter has been cut away. Whitman repurposed this letter, writing on the back a series of notes toward his lecture on the death of Abraham Lincoln. [back]
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