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Houghton, Mifflin & Company to Walt Whitman, 19 September 1885

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  • Title: Houghton, Mifflin & Company to Walt Whitman, 19 September 1885
  • Date: September 19, 1885
  • Creator(s): Houghton, Mifflin & Company
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.04626
  • 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 Kinnaman Stefan Schöberlein Ian Faith Kyle Barton Nicole Gray
  • Cite this page: Houghton, Mifflin & Company. "Houghton, Mifflin & Company to Walt Whitman, 19 September 1885." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 11 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.04626.xml (TEI)
 loc_vm.02440_large.jpg MEMORANDUM. To Mr. Walt Whitman. Camden N.J. Sept. 19th, 1885. From  
 HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY,  
 DBU.  
 Publishers, 4 Park Street, Boston.

As we cannot answer this question we take the liberty of referring this letter to you.

 loc_vm.02441_large.jpg
 loc_vm.02442_large.jpg Stamp Big Foot Prairie McHenry Co Ill Sept 15th 1885 Mess Houghton Mifflin Gentelmen​

A friend of mine in England wishing to get hold of an Copy of an original edition of Walt Whitmans "Leaves of Grass" Could you get one for me, if not would you be so kind as to give me his publishers name and Mr Whitmans address. and oblige

Yours Respfully W. B. Walton.1  loc_vm.02443_large.jpg

Correspondent:
Houghton and Mifflin, a Boston publishing company founded by Henry Oscar Houghton and George Mifflin, had merged with Ticknor and Fields in 1880, creating Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Houghton Mifflin would publish John Burroughs's Whitman: A Study in 1896.

Notes

  • 1. W. B. Walton (1826–1897) was born in Birmingham, England, and had moved to the United States with his wife Sarah Jane. [back]
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