Richard A. Stuart to Walt Whitman, 15 October 1885

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Title: Richard A. Stuart to Walt Whitman, 15 October 1885
Date: October 15, 1885
Creator(s): Richard A. Stuart
Whitman Archive ID: loc.03697
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loc.03697.001_large.jpg RICHARD A. STUART, Lecture & Dramatic Agent,
TOURS ARRANGED. 66 WASHINGTON PLACE.
New York, Oct 15 1885 Walt Whitman Camden, N. J. Dear Sir—

The writer desires to get up a course of lectures & readings to be given in this city this Winter by some of our prominent authors and desires to know if you would consider a proposition to read at one of the meetings several loc.03697.002_large.jpg loc.03697.003_large.jpg of your short poems?

Should the foregoing in any way meet your views I shall be pleased by future correspondence to discuss dates—terms and any other detail.

Trusting this will find you in good health, and thanking you in advance for an early & favorable reply—I am

Your Obt Servant Richd A. Stuart

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