431 Stevens Street
Camden New Jersey
Oct 22 p m1
Dear Sir
Thanks for your kind letter, just rec'd & read with greatest interest & pleasure—I sell my books, Centennial or author's edition, myself—Circular enclosed—will I think give you the information you ask—
Walt Whitman
Notes
- 1. Isaac Hull Platt
(1853–1917) was a New York attorney, a Baconian, and an early biographer
of Whitman (1904). In his Commonplace Book Whitman noted sending a circular to
Platt on October 22, but on the following page, on Platt's calling card, he
wrote: "Oct 23—Letter from, very warm ab't poems,
& asking ab't books—I sent circular . . . (I sent the letter to Dr
Bucke)." The poet sent the 1876 Leaves of Grass on
October 27 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the
Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington,
D.C.). [back]