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Title: Melville Philips to Walt Whitman, 21 May 1891
Date: May 21, 1891
Whitman Archive ID: loc.03505
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.
Editorial note: The annotation, "see notes May 22 1891," is in the hand of Horace Traubel.
Contributors to digital file: Andrew David King, Cristin Noonan, Alex Ashland, and Stephanie Blalock
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THE PHILADELPHIA PRESS.
THE PRESS COMPANY, Limited,
Proprietors,
SEVENTH AND CHESTNUT STREETS.
Philadelphia, May
21st
1891
My dear Mr. Whitman:
Thanks. I know no speedier way to get you the $10 than by the enclosed cheque.
Remember your visit to me.
Faithfully yrs
Melville Philips
Correspondent:
Melville Phillips was an
editor at Munyon's Illustrated World and visited Whitman
in Camden to request that Whitman contribute work to the journal. He also
reviewed November Boughs in the Philadelphia Press, where he served as literary editor, in
1888.