431 Stevens st
Camden N Jersey
July 11
My dear Philip Hale1
I have rec'd your p o order for $10 for my books—for which hearty thanks. I send by same mail with
this, One Vol.
Leaves of Grass—the other Vol.
Two Rivulets I will send soon as some copies of a new batch are
ready, (the old ones being all exhausted.) Please inform me (by postal card will do) if this Vol comes safe.
Notes
- 1. Philip Hale (1854–1934), a music
critic and program annotator for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, wrote to Walt
Whitman for the first time on September 14, 1871.
He wrote again on October 7, 1875, to praise the
"Calamus" poems and to enclose a copy of "Walt Whitman," which he published in
the Yale Literary Magazine in November 1874,
96–104. Whitman sent Two Rivulets on September 3,
1876 (Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt
Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). [back]