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George Heard to Walt Whitman, 25 October 1880

 loc_ej.00931.jpg Books sent Mr. Walt Whitman, Camden N.J. Dear Sir,

Enclosed herein please find New York draft for ten dollars, for which please send me the "Centennial Edition" of your works. I get the information that you sell these books yourself from a foot note to  loc_ej.00930.jpg  loc_ej.00947.jpg an article on you in the November Number of Scribners​ Monthly, by Edmund C. Steadman​ .

A reply to this in your own hand writing will be highly appreciated.

Very truly yours, Geo. Heard.  loc_ej.00946.jpg

Notes

  • 1. This letter was crossed out and cut in half. On the back Whitman wrote part of a prose draft titled "Poetry in America—Shakspere—the Future." [back]
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