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John Camden Hotten to Walt Whitman, 8 April 1868

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  • Title: John Camden Hotten to Walt Whitman, 8 April 1868
  • Date: April 8, 1868
  • Creator(s): John Camden Hotten
  • Whitman Archive ID: yal.00294
  • Source: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Cite this page: Hotten, John Camden. "John Camden Hotten to Walt Whitman, 8 April 1868." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 19 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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 yal.00294.001.jpg from J C Hotten 74 & 75 Piccadilly W London 8 Ap. 1868 Dear Sir:

I am in receipt of your kind letter. The portrait of yourself we have given in the English Edition of "Poems" will be superseded by one from the very fine photograph wch​ Mr. Moncure Conway has lent me to be engraved. Should our second attempt not be satisfactory, I will cheerfully avail my self of your offer.

Mr. Swinburne was very pleased to hear that his mention of  yal.00294.002.jpg yourself and literary labours had given satisfaction. He is now busy upon "Bothwell"—a new poem wch​ may be regarded as a sequel to his "Chastelard".

I am a little puzzled as to a good agent for the sale of our English selection from your "Poems" in America. Any suggestions you may make will be thankfully received.

Pray excuse the hasty scrawl—hasty to catch the post.

Yrs very truly John Camden Hotten W. Whitman  yal.00294.003.jpg

☞ You will have received some newspaper notices of the English Edition by this time I posted them a few days since. Enclosed is from John Bright's paper

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