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Title: Bret Harte to Walt Whitman, 13 April 1870
Date: April 13, 1870
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02301
Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
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ROOMS OF The Overland Monthly
San Francisco.
Apl 13th 1870
My dear sir,
I fear that the "Passage to India" is a poem too long and too abstract for the hasty and material minded readers of the O. M..
With many thanks, I am
Your obt svt
F. Bret Harte
Ed. O. M.
Mr. Walt Whitman
Washington D.C.