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Title: Charles F. Wingate to Walt Whitman, 5 October 1886
Date: October 5, 1886
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04500
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.
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CHARLES F. WINGATE,1
CONSULTING SANITARY ENGINEER,
NO. 119 PEARL STREET,
[Hanover Square.]
New York Oct 5 1886
Dear Sir,
Poet of Democracy have you no message to the struggling masses, [illegible] for Henry George2 in New York—
Speak with no uncertain sound
Yours
C F Wingate
Correspondent:
In March 1870, Charles Frederick Wingate
(1848–1909) was serving as a New York correspondent for the Republican of Springfield, Massachusetts. In the 1880s
and 90s, he became Sanitary Engineer in New York City, delivering lectures and
writing newspaper columns about the city's sanitation practices and
problems.
Notes:
1. This letter is addressed: Walt Whitman Esq | Camden | NJ. The return address is: CHARLES F. WINGATE, | CONSULTING SANITARY ENGINEER, | Expert Examination of Plumbing, Heating and Ventilation, | NO. 119 PEARL STREET, NEW YORK. It is postmarked: NEW YORK | OCT 5 | 1 PM | 86; CAMDEN, N.J. | OCT | 6 | 7 AM | 1886 | REC'D. [back]
2. Henry George (1839–1897) was an American writer and political economist whose writings inspired a variety of reform movements in the Progessive Era. [back]