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books sent
—FROM—1
JNO. S. STOTT,
Stationery, Blank Books,
AND FANCY GOODS,
244 STATE ST.—CHICAGO.
Nov 10th 1880
[cut away]
Paid | write from the author
Dr Sir
Enclosed find chk for ten dollars for which please send me by express the two volumes of the Centennial or Authors editions of your collected poems—the edition I mean is [cut away]
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Notes
- 1. This letter was cut up and
reassembled, pasted together with other pieces of paper. On the back Whitman
wrote part of a prose draft titled "Poetry in America—Shakspere—the
Future." [back]