The Walt Whitman Archive
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Title: Walt Whitman to George Collins Cox, 23 June 1889
Date: June 23, 1889
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01412
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.
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Camden New Jersey
June 23 '891
If convenient please give the bearer, for the Photo: Process Co: for me, the negative of the photo: my head (with hat) I call "the laughing Philosopher"—to be carefully cared for & return'd to you in a month or less.
Walt Whitman
Correspondent:
George Collins "G. C." Cox
(1851–1903) was a well-known celebrity photographer who had taken
photographs of Whitman when the poet was in New York to give his Lincoln lecture
in April 1887. "The Laughing Philosopher," one of the most famous photographs of
Whitman, was taken by Cox in 1887. It is reproduced in Specimen Days (1971), plate 174.
Notes:
1. This letter is addressed: Mr Cox | photographer | Broadway & Ninth st: | New York City [back]