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Everett N. Blanke to Walt Whitman, 28 January 1892

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  • Title: Everett N. Blanke to Walt Whitman, 28 January 1892
  • Date: January 28, 1892
  • Creator(s): Everett N. Blanke
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.01106
  • Source: The 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.
  • Contributors to digital file: Cristin Noonan Amanda J. Axley Stephanie Blalock
  • Cite this page: Blanke, Everett N.. "Everett N. Blanke to Walt Whitman, 28 January 1892." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 19 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.01106.xml (TEI)
 loc.01106.003_large.jpg "IF YOU SEE IT IN1 The Sun IT'S SO." ADDRESS—UPTOWN BRANCH, 1265 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, Advertisements Received until 11 P.M. Telephone Call, 1312—38th. New York, January 28 1892 Walt Whitman Esq Dear Sir:

Mr. James Gordon Bennett,2 the proprietor of The Evening Telegram desires that an interview with you be published in that paper and Mr. James Creelman3 the editor has asked me to be the interviewer. May I hope for a favorable reply to this note of inquiry by return mail? I would take pleasure in visiting you in Camden on Sunday next. Your answer will reach me more quickly at The Telegram office corner Broadway & Dey St.4

Respectfully Everett N. Blanke 1055 pm, 1/30/92 Whitman will see you briefly tomorrow morning at 12 see notes Jan 29 1892  loc.01106.004_large.jpg  loc.01106.001_large.jpg  loc.01106.002_large.jpg

Correspondent:
Everett N. Blanke (1861–1922) wrote educational pieces for The Brooklyn Daily Eagle before going on to work with the Chicago Inter-Ocean and the New York Herald. He became the secretary and treasurer of the Bankers and Lawyers Advertising Company of Manhattan. He and his wife, Isabelle Cutler Blanke, had three children. For more information on Blanke, see his obituary: "Everett N. Blanke Dies," The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (December 18, 1922), 3.

Notes

  • 1. This letter is addressed: Walt Whitman Esq | Camden | New Jersey. It is postmarked: [illegible] | JAN 23 | 630 PM | 92; CAMDEN, N.J. | JAN29 | 6AM | 92 | REC'D. [back]
  • 2. James Gordon Bennett (1841–1918) was the editor and publisher of the New York Herald, a newspaper founded by his father. Bennett also founded the entertainment and gossip paper The Evening Telegram under the guidance of his father. The paper later became the New York World-Telegram. [back]
  • 3. James Creelman (1859–1915) of Canada was a Canadian-American writer who earned a famous interview with Mexican president Porfirio Díaz in 1908. Creelman held numerous jobs in the printing and newspaper industries, moving from the print shops of New York newspapers to work as a New York Herald repoter by the late 1870s. He worked a stint at the Evening Telegram and later covered the Sino-Japanese War for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World. He died unexpectedly in Germany in 1915, where he intended to cover the first World War. [back]
  • 4. "Walt Whitman's Dying Hours" was published in the February 13, 1892, issue of The Evening Telegram. [back]
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