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Title: Walt Whitman to J. R. Osgood & Company, 23 May 1882

Date: May 23, 1882

Whitman Archive ID: loc.00533

Source: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1842–1937, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 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.

Notes for this letter were created by Whitman Archive staff and/or were derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller, 6 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), and supplemented or updated by Whitman Archive staff.

Contributors to digital file: Stefan Schoeberlein, Nima Najafi Kianfar, Eder Jaramillo, and Nicole Gray



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Received of James R Osgood & Co: one hundred ($100:) dollars in cash—and the plates, sheets, dies, &c. of "Leaves of Grass," in full of all claims for copyright or otherwise, as per our agreement of May 19 18821


W W

Camden N J May 23—1882


Notes:

1. This is a draft receipt. It is endorsed (by Whitman): "Copy of rec't sent O & Co May 23 '82." [back]


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