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Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Correspondent, 28 November 1882

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Correspondent, 28 November 1882
  • Date: November 28, 1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: ucl.00003
  • Source: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 317–318. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Stefan Schoeberlein Nima Najafi Kianfar Eder Jaramillo Nicole Gray
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Correspondent, 28 November 1882." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 04 December 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: ucl.00003.xml (TEI)
431 Stevens Street  
 Camden New Jersey Nov: 28 '82 Dear Sir1

I have just come up from a three weeks' visit2 down in the Jersey woods, & find your card of 26th—The only copies of my complete poems "Leaves of Grass," in my control, are of a special autograph & portrait edition, 1882, including everything to date—384 pages, 12 mo—price $3—I can furnish you with this. If you wish it, send p. o. order, & I will forward by mail immediately.

Walt Whitman

I also supply, when desired, my prose volume "Specimen Days & Collect"—price $2.—374 pages 12 mo—

Notes

  • 1. This letter may have been sent to L. O. Bliss of Iowa Falls, Iowa, to whom Whitman sent a "gilt-top L of G" on December 18 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). [back]
  • 2. Whitman was inaccurate, perhaps deliberately: he was with the Staffords at Glendale from November 18 to 27 (Whitman's Commonplace Book). See Whitman's letter to William Sloane Kennedy of November 28, 1882. [back]
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