Walt Whitman to Karl Knortz, 20 April 1883

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Title: Walt Whitman to Karl Knortz, 20 April 1883
Date: April 20, 1883
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: med.00693
Source: The location of this manuscript is unknown. The transcription presented here is derived from Edwin Haviland Miller, "An Unpublished Whitman Postcard to Karl Knortz," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 154. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
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Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Karl Knortz, 20 April 1883." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 04 December 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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431 Stevens Street1
Camden
New Jersey April 20—1883—

Thank you heartily for the German renderings2—which have been duly rec'd .

Walt Whitman

1. In 1883, Karl Knortz (1841–1918), the author of many articles on German-American affairs, was living in New York City. [back]
2. In his letters to Whitman that year Knortz frequently included "German renderings" of poems in Leaves of Grass. Later he assisted Thomas W. H. Rolleston in Grashalme (Zurich: Verlags-Magazin, 1889), a German translation of Leaves key to Whitman's influence in Germany. See Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995). [back]