Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 27 February [1877]

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Title: Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 27 February [1877]
Date: February 27, 1877
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: uva.00383
Source: Papers of Walt Whitman (MSS 3829), Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Albert H. Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia . The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 78-9. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Alicia Bones Grace Thomas Eder Jaramillo Nicole Gray Kenneth Price
Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 27 February [1877]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 04 December 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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Camden Tuesday night Feb 27

I have gone over the chapters—got quite in the spirit of them—added & suggested a few lines or words here & there—and pruned a few passages, even pages, remorselessly.1 I like them all—they are very living—the "Beauty" chapter I think especially fine.2

Do you say the final chapter is already in print? the one about me? If so, send me the proof, which I will return by next mail. I am feeling quite well for me.

Notes

1. For Walt Whitman's emendations in Burroughs's manuscript, see the letter from Walt Whitman to John Burroughs on January 24, 1877. [back]
2. "Before Beauty" is the fifth chapter of Burroughs's Birds and Poets (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1877). [back]