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Title: Samuel W. Green to Walt Whitman, 3 May 1876
Date: May 3, 1876
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01723
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S. W. GREEN,
Printer, Stereotyper, Electrotyper, and Binder,
OFFICE, 18 JACOB STREET, CORNER FRANKFORT,
New-York,
3 May, 1876
Walt Whitman, Esq
431 Stevens St. Camden, N. J.
Dear Sir:
I have your letter of yesterday,1 and the "Leaves of Grass" with corrections. The making of the corrections, Paper like the sample [indeed?], and printing of 600 copies, 348 pages, will come to $157. If I have an order to that effect from you day after tomorrow morning, I will have the 600 copies ready for the Binder, as you ask, three weeks from to-day, 24 May, in unfolded sheets.
I am also ready to bind them as you may direct, and will give figures if you indicate the style.
Yours truly
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 letter has not been located. [back]