Samuel W. Green to Walt Whitman, 3 May 1876

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Title: Samuel W. Green to Walt Whitman, 3 May 1876
Date: May 3, 1876
Creator(s): Samuel W. Green
Whitman Archive ID: loc.01723
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loc.01723.001_large.jpg 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).

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