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Walt Whitman to Brander Matthews, 6 September [1882]

I cheerfully give permission to print "O Captain My Captain" in your book1

Walt Whitman

Notes

  • 1. Brander Matthews (1852–1929), professor of English literature at Columbia University from 1892 to 1924, included the poem in Poems of American Patriotism (1882), 268–269. [back]
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