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Edward Sprague Marsh to Walt Whitman, 14 June 1890

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  • Title: Edward Sprague Marsh to Walt Whitman, 14 June 1890
  • Date: June 14, 1890
  • Creator(s): Edward Sprague Marsh
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.03262
  • 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.
  • Contributors to digital file: Ian Faith Ryan Furlong Breanna Himschoot Stephanie Blalock
  • Cite this page: Marsh, Edward Sprague. "Edward Sprague Marsh to Walt Whitman, 14 June 1890." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 11 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.03262.xml (TEI)
 loc.03262.001_large.jpg Brandon, VT.1 June 14/90. sent circ June 16 Walt Whitman, Camden, N. J. Dear Sir:

Have you any copies of the first edition of "Leaves of Grass"? Or of any subsequent unabridged edition? If so, and you can spare me a copy, please name price, and I will remit at once.

If you would kindly inscribe your name in the copy (should I be fortunate enough to get one) you would add materially to its value for me.

Respectfully Yours, E. S. Marsh.  loc.03262.002_large.jpg

Correspondent:
Edward Sprague Marsh (1857–?) was a lawyer in Brandon, Vermont, a collector of rare books, and the editor and publisher of the Brandon Chronicle in 1894 ("Marsh, Edward Sprague," The Encyclopedia of Vermont Biography, ed. Prentiss Cutler Dodge [Burlington, Vermont: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912], 258).

Notes

  • 1. Whitman wrote in the upper right-hand corner of this letter "sent cvr's June 16." He occasionally had circulars printed to send out to potential buyers of his various books. He had circulars printed for his Complete Poems $ Prose (1888). [back]
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