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Alexander Gardner to Walt Whitman, 26 November 1866

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  • Title: Alexander Gardner to Walt Whitman, 26 November 1866
  • Date: November 26, 1866
  • Creator(s): Alexander Gardner | Horace Traubel
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.02115
  • Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The transcription presented here is derived from Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1914), 346. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang Janel Cayer Brett Barney Vanessa Steinroetter Nicole Gray
  • Cite this page: Gardner, Alexander and Horace Traubel. "Alexander Gardner to Walt Whitman, 26 November 1866." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 19 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.02115.xml (TEI)
Washington, 26 November, 1866. My dear Whitman,

I received this morning from an old friend (Mr. Robert Buchanan) in England a letter and among other things he asks me to send him Leaves of Grass, Drum Taps and any other works by the author Walt Whitman of the Attorney General's department, Washington, and a portrait if it can be got by hook or crook. I shall make a copy from each negative. Please tell me if there are any other works of yours than the above and where I can get them. He desires also that I should send him a portrait of Emerson. Can you tell me where I can get a good one?

Yours respectfully, Alex. Gardner.
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