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Walt Whitman to George Collins Cox, 23 June 1889

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to George Collins Cox, 23 June 1889
  • Date: June 23, 1889
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • 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.
  • Contributors to digital file: Blake Bronson-Bartlett Ryan Furlong Breanna Himschoot Stephanie Blalock
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to George Collins Cox, 23 June 1889." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 09 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.01412.xml (TEI)
 loc.01412.001_large.jpg 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  loc.01412.002_large.jpg  loc.01412.003_large.jpg  loc.01412.004_large.jpg

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 lecture on Abraham Lincoln (his Lincoln lecture) in April 1887. "The Laughing Philosopher," one of the most famous photographs of Whitman, was taken by Cox in 1887.

Notes

  • 1. This letter is addressed: Mr Cox | photographer | Broadway & Ninth st: | New York City [back]
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