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Walt Whitman to Unidentified Correspondent, 18 April 1887

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Unidentified Correspondent, 18 April 1887
  • Date: April 18, 1887
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: brn.00003
  • Source: John Hay Library, Brown University. 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.

    Notes for this letter were created by Whitman Archive staff and/or were derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller, 6 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), and supplemented or updated by Whitman Archive staff.
  • Contributors to digital file: Ryan Furlong Stefan Schöberlein Caterina Bernardini Stephanie Blalock
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Unidentified Correspondent, 18 April 1887." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 09 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: brn.00003.xml (TEI)
 brn.00003.001_large.jpg 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  brn.00003.002_large.jpg

Correspondent:
As yet we have no information about this correspondent.

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]
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