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Title: Walt Whitman to George M. Williamson, 22 September 1887

Date: September 22, 1887

Whitman Archive ID: loc.04493

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: Alex Ashland, Stefan Schöberlein, Caterina Bernardini, and Stephanie Blalock



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328 Mickle Street
Camden New Jersey
Sept: 22 '87

Dear Sir

Yours rec'd with the $5 in advance for "November Boughs"1—The book is not printed yet, but is contemplated before long. Thank you for the papers that come occasionally, always acceptable & new—I do not know what "letter" you allude to in a late "Tribune"

I send some scraps, MS. and autographs.

Thanks & good bye for the present—


Walt Whitman


Correspondent:
George M. Williamson (b. 1850) was a New York book collector who contacted Whitman several times about purchasing manuscripts, and later published Catalogue of A Collection of Books, Letters, and Manuscripts written by Walt Whitman, in the Library of George M. Williamson, Grand View on Hudson (New York: The Marion Press, 1903). Other items in Williamson's collection, which was sold at auction in 1908, included George Washington's copy of Don Quixote, a presentation copy of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Evangeline," Nathaniel Hawthorne's annotated copy of The Scarlet Letter, and "a very remarkable collection of Walt Whitman's works" (The George M. Williamson Collection [Anderson Galleries, Inc., 1908]).

Notes:

1. The letter appears to be lost. [back]


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