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Walt Whitman to Gordon Lester Ford, 23 August 1867

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Gordon Lester Ford, 23 August 1867
  • Date: August 23, 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: pml.00023
  • Source: The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 336–337. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Gordon Lester Ford, 23 August 1867." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 23 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: pml.00023.xml (TEI)
Washington, August 23, 1867. Mr. Ford.1  
  Dear Sir,

Your note has been received.

I have a vague impression, or memory, of some copies of the first edition of Leaves of Grass being for sale at Dion Thomas's Bookstore, in Nassau st. near Spruce, New York, some time since.

Andrew Rome, printer, now in Fulton st. opposite City Hall, Brooklyn, did the printing of the first edition.

Walt Whitman

Notes

  • 1. Ford practiced law in New York and lived in Brooklyn. [back]
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