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Walt Whitman to Whitelaw Reid, 8 May [1879]

My Dear Reid

Can you use this for Saturday's paper?1 (Will make a column & a third or half about)—If put in type please have me the proof (which I will return forthwith) sent to-morrow afternoon any time before 7 o'clock to above address—

Walt Whitman

Notes

  • 1. "Broadway Revisited" appeared in the New York Tribune on May 10, 1879, and, rearranged, in Specimen Days (ed. Floyd Stovall [New York: New York University Press, 1963], 16–21, 338–339). This was the first of three chatty (and, in the view of Edwin Haviland Miller, embarrassingly trite) letters Whitman submitted to the Tribune in May (Walt Whitman: The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77] 3:153 n39). See also the letter from Whitman to Whitelaw Reid of May 12, 1879. On May 29, 1879, Whitman received from D. Nicholson $45 for the three articles. [back]
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