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Walt Whitman to the Editor, Cincinnati Commercial, 12 February 1876

Private Editor Commercial. Dear Sir:

Wouldn't these articles be available for the paper. The price is $60. for the two. Of course they are hitherto unpublished—(my book in which they go, will not be out for at least three or four weeks.)1

Walt Whitman

Notes

  • 1. On March 16, 1876, Walt Whitman noted receipt of $50 from Marst Halstead of the Cincinnati Commercial (Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). The newspaper had printed "extracts" from Memoranda During the War on February 16, 1876. [back]
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