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Title: William H. Rideing to Walt Whitman, 9 October 1890
Date: October 9, 1890
Whitman Archive ID: loc.02916
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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Received at 10.35. a
10/9 1890
Dated Jamaica Plains Mass 9
To Walt
Whitman
Can you send your article1 by Wednesday wire our expense
William H. Riding
Correspondent:
William Henry Rideing
(1853–1918) was an American newspaper editor and author who began his
career at the New York Tribune, and worked at various
times for the New York Times, Newark
News, Springfield Republican, and Boston Journal. From 1881 to his death, Rideing was the
Associate Editor of The Youth's Companion and, in 1889,
became an assistant editor at the North American Review.
He is also author of several books, including A Little
Upstart: A Novel (Boston: Cupples, Upham, and Co. 1885), The Captured Cunarder: An Episode of the Atlantic
(Boston: Copeland and Day, 1896), and George Washington
(New York: Macmillan, 1916). For more information, see his obituary, "William H.
Rideing, Boston Editor, Dead" in The Boston Globe (August
23, 1918), 6.
Notes:
1. Whitman sent "Old Poets" to the North American Review on October 9. He returned proof on October 18 and was paid $75 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). The article appeared in the November 1890 issue. [back]