The Walt Whitman Archive
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Correspondence
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Title: Walt Whitman to Editor or Superintendent, 19 April 1890
Date: April 19, 1890
Whitman Archive ID: har.00040
Source: Manuscripts Department, Houghton Library, Harvard 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.
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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]