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Walt Whitman to the Editor of the Springfield Republican, 13 November 1881

I gratefully thank your paper & the writer of the Boston Literary Letter in Nov:​ 10th's issue—I have never had more comforting words—so noble & glowing in themselves & in their bearing on other things than me & mine—I wish this card conveyed to the writer of them1

Walt Whitman

Notes

  • 1. Whitman also noted the "magnificent" review in his Commonplace Book (Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). On November 20 he wrote a card of "thanks" to the New York Sun after the appearance of E. P. M.'s lengthy review, "Walt Whitman and the Poetry of the Future," on the preceding day (Whitman's Commonplace Book). On November 14 Ticknor, of Osgood & Co., wrote to Whitman: "The first edition is all gone & we are binding up the second." [back]
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