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Walt Whitman to Jeannette L. and Joseph B. Gilder, 25 January 1883

My dear friends

Would "the Bible as Poetry" suit you for paper of Feb: 3d or 10th?1 The price is $15—I would like 50 copies of the W W head with motto &c about same size as your issue, printed on heavier paper, with the "Critic" imprint left off—will pay (for paper & print) 4 cents a copy—$2.00—If put in type send proof of "Bible" here early in week—

Walt Whitman

Notes

  • 1. "The Bible as Poetry" appeared in The Critic on February 3. On February 8 Whitman sent copies to Anne Gilchrist, Edward Dowden, Thomas W. H. Rolleston, Rudolf Schmidt, and G. C. Macaulay (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). [back]
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