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328 Mickle Street
Camden New Jersey April 19 '87
By request of J H Johnston1 I send you (same mail with this, same address) a copy of
Leaves of Grass—special ed'n—The price is $3
wh: please remit me here by p o order—
Walt Whitman
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Correspondent:
Andrew D. Chandler
(1854?–1919) worked in the circulation department for several periodicals,
including the Independent, the Christian Union, and the Outlook. He also
served as the circulation manager for Harper's for
fifteen years. He died in Orange, N.J.
Notes
- 1. John H. Johnston (1837–1919) was a New York
jeweler and close friend of Whitman. Johnston was also a friend of Joaquin
Miller (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Tuesday, August 14, 1888). Whitman visited the Johnstons for the
first time early in 1877. In 1888 he observed to Horace Traubel: "I count
[Johnston] as in our inner circle, among the chosen few" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Wednesday, October 3, 1888). See also Johnston's letter about
Whitman, printed in Charles N. Elliot, Walt Whitman as Man,
Poet and Friend (Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1915), 149–174. For
more on Johnston, see Susan L. Roberson, "Johnston, John H. (1837–1919) and Alma Calder," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and
Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998). [back]