After correcting "Prayer of Columbus," please—the editor consenting—take two impressions, (proofs) similar to this & send me in this envelope for my private use for future preservation
Whitman December 15, 1873. | Walt WhitmanCorrespondent:
Harper's Monthly
Magazine (sometimes Harper's New Monthly
Magazine or simply Harper's) was established in
1850 by Henry J. Raymond and Fletcher Harper. The magazine became successful by
reprinting British novels before eventually publishing American authors. Six of
Whitman's poems were published there between 1874 and 1892. For more information
on Whitman's relationship with Harper's, see Susan
Belasco's Harper's Monthly Magazine.