Your postal2 has just come & I write to ask you for particulars before making the request of Mr. Cox.3
loc.01223.002_large.jpg loc.01223.003_large.jpgWill you kindly let me know who it is wants the negative & for what purpose.
I was sorry not to be able to grasp your hand on your birthday
Yours very truly, William Carey loc.01223.004_large.jpg loc.01221.003_large.jpg see notes June 19 1889 I wrote to W.C. 6/20/89 loc.01221.004_large.jpgCorrespondent:
William Carey
(1858–1901) worked for the editorial department of The
Century Magazine. The September 1887 issue of the monthly advertised
signed photographs of Whitman (taken by George C. Cox earlier that summer). See
also Whitman's letter to Cox of September 15,
1887.