Samuel W. Green to Walt Whitman, 9 August 1872
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Printing, Stereotyping, and Binding, of Every Description,
Promptly and Well Done at the Lowest Rates for Cash. S. W. GREEN, Successor to JOHN A. GRAY & GREEN, Nos. 16 and 18 JACOB STREET, NEW-YORK. Aug 9th 1872 Walt Whitman, Dear sir,
Your favor of 8th1 inst containing ($50xx) Fifty Dollars was received in due course from the Adams Express Co.2 I have placed the same to credit.
w/c—
Yours Resply S. W. Green
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Aug 9 '72 Rec'd to: $50 S. W.
Green
Correspondent:
Samuel W. Green was listed in Goulding's New York City Directory (1877–1878) as a
printer at 18 Jacob St., with a home at 123 Livingston St. in Brooklyn. Among his skills and services,
Green listed a "book and job department," a "stereotype and electrotype
foundry," "bookbindery," and "printing of every description" (Lawrence G. Goulding & Co.,
Directory, 1877–1878, 3:545). Green printed
the sheets of Whitman's As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free (1872)
in an edition of 572 copies, 300 of which were bound. Green later printed the
pages of the 1876 Leaves of Grass and
Two Rivulets. For more information on books
by Whitman that were printed by Green, see Ed Folsom, Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman: A Catalog and
Commentary (University of Iowa: Obermann Center for Advanced
Studies, 2005).
Notes
- 1. This communication has not been located. [back]
- 2. Founded in 1839, Adams Express Company was a delivery business that began under the name Adams & Company. Produce merchant Alvin Adams (1804–1877) started the company when he began carrying letters and parcels between the cities of Boston and Worcester in Massachusetts. The company rebranded itself as the Adams Express Company in 1854. [back]