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.
Contributors to digital file: Blake Bronson-Bartlett, Ian Faith, Alex Ashland, and Stephanie Blalock
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.
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]