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Title: Walt Whitman to S. S. McClure, 25 June 1887
Date: June 25, 1887
Whitman Archive ID: loc.03105
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.
Notes for this letter were created by Whitman Archive staff and/or were derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller, 6 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), and supplemented or updated by Whitman Archive staff.
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Camden New Jersey1
June 25 '87
Yours with $25 as pay for the little piece has reach'd me—Thanks, & this is the receipt2
Walt Whitman
Correspondent:
Samuel Sidney McClure
(1857–1949) was an investigative journalist who in 1884 established the
first newspaper syndicate in the United States, which occasionally solicited and
published work by Whitman; later, he co-founded McClure's
Magazine, which published work by Whitman posthumously.
Notes:
1. This postal card is addressed: S S M'Clure | Tribune Building | New York City. It is postmarked: Philadelphia | Jun | 25 | 4 PM | Transit; P.O. | 6-25-87 | 12 P | N.Y. [back]
2. See the letter from Whitman to the S. S. McClure Syndicate, June 14, 1887. [back]