Skip to main content

Walt Whitman to Thayer & Eldridge, late 1860

...are already getting to be pretty numerous and outspoken—

Walt Whitman

Sometimes I think it would be better still to make a compact and finished Vol. of the whole issue of "Leaves of Grass," including the former ones with the new ones, for they are all of a uniform pattern.—This would afford a splendid living American Vol. that would go like the devil through the West, and among the young men everywhere.—1


Notes

  • 1. Draft fragment. [back]
Back to top