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Title: Charles Parsons to Walt Whitman, 25 July 1885
Date: July 25, 1885
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02270
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Art Department.
HARPER & BROTHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE, NEW YORK.
July 25, 1885.
Dear Sir:
We wish to publish your portrait in Harper's Weekly. Will you please say where we can get a good recent photograph? We would prefer one without the hat.
Yours truly,
Charles Parsons
Sup't
Art
Dep't,
for E.D.W.
Walt Whitman, Esqre.
Correspondent:
Charles Parsons
(1820–1910) was the art superintendent of Harper & Brothers periodical
publications.