Skip to main content
  1. Home
  2. Letters
  3. Correspondence
  4. loc.00583

Harvey Jewell and C. S. Kendall to Walt Whitman, 6 February 1861

About This Item

  • Title: Harvey Jewell and C. S. Kendall to Walt Whitman, 6 February 1861
  • Date: February 6, 1861
  • Creator(s): Harvey Jewell and C. S. Kendall
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.00583
  • Source: Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, 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 Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman, ed. Jerome M. Loving (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975), and supplemented or updated by Whitman Archive staff.
  • Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang Janel Cayer Kathryn Kruger Eric Conrad Blake Bronson-Bartlett Nick Krauter
  • Cite this page: Kendall, Harvey Jewell and C. S.. "Harvey Jewell and C. S. Kendall to Walt Whitman, 6 February 1861." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 20 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.00583.xml (TEI)
Feb. 6, 1861 My dear Sir,

Please find bill enclosed of 20.241. You are requested to pay the sum immediately and much oblige you with such,

H. Jewell C. S. Kendall2 Assignees for— tab of Thayer & Eldridge

Notes

  • 1. In a previous letter, this amount is described by Thayer and Eldridge as a "numerical sum just for appearance sake," so that Whitman would not be bothered by the bankrupt publishers' creditors. See Thayer and Eldridge's letter from December 5, 1860. [back]
  • 2. Jewell and Kendall were collecting for Thayer and Eldridge's debtors. Thayer and Eldridge was a Boston publishing firm responsible for the third edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1860). For more on Whitman's relationship with Thayer and Eldridge see "Thayer, William Wilde [1829–1896] and Charles W. Eldridge [1837–1903]." [back]
Back to top