Walt Whitman to Charles F. Blanch, 4 June 1869

Attorney General's Office Washington, June 4, 1869 Dear Sir:1

Your letters have been received. I cordially accept your appreciation & sympathy.

I send you, same mail with this, a copy of my book, as requested—Also a copy of Mr. Burroughs's "Notes," which I have procured. Also a late photograph, accompanied by a picture taken in 1855, very good at the time. Also a late newspaper.

Since the book, there have been several pieces of mine, in magazines.2 I will endeavor to procure them, (or some of them,) & forward you.

I send you my thanks & good will. Walt Whitman

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Notes

• 1. See also Walt Whitman's January 20, 1869 letter to Blanch. [back]
• 2. After Whitman's January 20, 1869 letter to Blanch, only "Proud Music of the Sea-Storm" had appeared in a magazine. For the publication of "Proud Music of the Sea-Storm," see Whitman's December 8, 1868 letter to James T. Fields. [back]