Walt Whitman to Chatto & Windus, 21 December 1886

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Title: Walt Whitman to Chatto & Windus, 21 December 1886
Date: December 21, 1886
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01261
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loc.01261.002_large.jpg 328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey US America1 Dec. 21 '86

Thanks for the six copies of your beautiful Edition of my poems, wh' have safely reach'd me.2

Walt Whitman

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Correspondent:
Andrew Chatto (1841–1913) was the junior partner of John Camden Hotten at Hotten's publishing business. After Hotten's death in 1873, Chatto bought the business and partnered with poet W. E. Windus. See also Oliver Warner, Chatto & Windus: A Brief Account of the Firm's Origin, History and Development (1973).

Notes

1. This letter is addressed: Chatto & Windus | Publishers &c | 214 Piccadilly | London | W | England. It is postmarked: CAMDEN | DEC | 21 | [illegible]M. [back]
2. See the letter from Whitman to Chatto & Windus of November 18, 1886. [back]