The Walt Whitman Archive
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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]