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328 Mickle Street
Camden New Jersey
April 18 '87
Dear Sir
Yes—I have a couple of the two Vol. edition (Leaves of
Grass and Two Rivulets) and will sell one of
them— the price is $10—
A photo-lith portrait (I sell for the benefit of the Orphan Home here) is $11
If you send for them, please send me p o order here—& please give your full
address—
Walt Whitman
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Notes
- 1. Walt Whitman's entry in
his notebook (Daybooks and Notebooks [1978], 3 vols., ed.
by William White) for November 17, 1876, reads: "commented furnishing Children's
Home Matron with the pictures, (& selling some myself) for the benefit of
the orphans" (48). Walt Whitman gave signed copies of the Pearsall photograph to
the Camden Children's Home on Haddon Avenue to sell for $1.00 each. See "The
Poet Aids an Orphanage," Walt Whitman Review 6 (September
1960), 58–59. [back]