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Henry Romeike to Walt Whitman, 10 September 1891

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  • Title: Henry Romeike to Walt Whitman, 10 September 1891
  • Date: September 10, 1891
  • Creator(s): Henry Romeike
  • Whitman Archive ID: bpl.00036
  • Source: The Walt Whitman Collection, Boston Public 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.
  • Contributors to digital file: Ryan Furlong Amanda J. Axley Stephanie Blalock
  • Cite this page: Romeike, Henry. "Henry Romeike to Walt Whitman, 10 September 1891." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 11 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: bpl.00036.xml (TEI)
 bpl.00002.001.jpg Henry Romeike Branches: London, Paris, Berlin, Washington D.C. 110 Fifth Avenue New York Sept 10—1891 Mr Walt Whitman Dear Sir:—

Your work is attracting considerable attention. Will you allow me to send you all notices concerning it that may appear in the papers of the United States and Canada.?1

Yours faithfully, Henry Romeike  bpl.00002.002.jpg

Correspondent:
Henry Romeike (1855–1903) was born in Prussia and educated in Germany. He began his career as an employee in a dry goods firm, but he later traveled to Paris and became interested in newspapers. He began a press clipping bureau business in London and established an agency in New York. He then moved to New York to oversee his press clipping business in that city, while also establishing branches in Berlin and Paris. His clients included politicians, lawyers, and actors, among others who applied to Romeike to learn what the national and international press had to say about them and others in their professions ("Death of Henry Romeike," The New York Times [June 4, 1903], 9).

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