Walt Whitman to Editor or Superintendent, 19 April 1890

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Title: Walt Whitman to Editor or Superintendent, 19 April 1890
Date: April 19, 1890
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: har.00040
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Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Editor or Superintendent, 19 April 1890." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 09 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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har.00040.001_large.jpg 328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey1 April 19 '90 To the Editor or Superintendent:2

The printed slip seems to me more or less flat & erroneous—at a venture I send you in the MS sheet what I think would be a better brief biographical note for the book—wh' sheet I hope you will substitute & cancel the other

yr's respectfully Walt Whitman

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Notes

1. Stamped on the upper left corner of this letter is "1918 Bequest of E. J. Wendell." [back]
2. This letter may have been addressed to Dodd, Mead, & Co, a publishing house in New York City, regarding their April 15, 1890, letter requesting Whitman's contribution to a projected volume on Abraham Lincoln. [back]