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Title: Walt Whitman to the Editor of The Youth's Companion, 19 January 1891

Date: January 19, 1891

Whitman Archive ID: har.00061

Source: Manuscripts Department, Houghton Library, Harvard University. The transcription presented here is derived from The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 5:153. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.

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Received Camden
New Jersey,1
January 19 1891

Fifteen Dollars paid to me by Youth's Companion, Boston, for little poem Ship Ahoy. I reserve the right of printing in future book2


Walt Whitman


Correspondent:
The Youth's Companion, a weekly magazine for families and children, was founded by Nathaniel Willis in 1827. During its more than one-hundred-year run, the magazine published contributions by Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. For more on the Youth's Companion, see Susan Belasco, Youth's Companion.

Notes:

1. This letter is addressed: Youth's Companion | Boston | Mass:. It is postmarked: Camden, N.J. | Jan 20 | 8 PM | 91; Boston, Mass. | Jan 21 | 1—PM | 1891. [back]

2. The editors sent $15 on January 14, 1891. "Ship Ahoy!" was published in the magazine on March 12, 1891[back]


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