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Titus M. Coan to Walt Whitman, 22 November 1880

 loc_jp.00186_large.jpg Titus M Coan's letter books sent $10 due from Century Club My Dear Sir,

Please send us your "author's edition" of the Poems, for the library of this club, with bill for our Treasurer to pay next month.

—I have been long on the look-out for a copy of the "Leaves of Grass," first edition, but have not yet succeeded in finding one. In  loc_jp.00187_large.jpg any edition, first or last, I believe they are to have lasting remembrance. They are the American poetry which the Old World has been challenging us so long to produce; they "stir the blood like the sound of a trumpet."

Faithfully yours, Titus M. Coan.
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