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SCAMMEL BROTHERS,
29 BEAVER STREET.
NEW YORK.
MAGEE BLOCK, WATER ST.,
SAINT. JOHN, N.B.
AGENTS AT SAINT JOHN
FOR THE
ANCHOR LINE
TRANS-ATLANTIC PENINSULAR & MEDITERANEAN
STEAM PACKET SHIPS.
J. WALTER SCAMMELL.
J. H. SCAMMELL.
FRED. E. SCAMMELL.
CABLE ADDRESS:
"SCAMMELLS"
NEW YORK. ST. JOHN. N.B.
New York, Oct 18th
1886
Walt Whitman Esq
Dear Sir
On my return to New York agreeable to promise I beg to forward you the Catalogue
spoken of & hope its perusal
will afford pleasure1
Mssrs Bangs & Co have lately sold about ⅓ of Autograph & Manuscript poems
belonging to estate of Lewis J. Cist Esq—3000 lots in catalogue of nearly 300
pages, if Mr Whitman would like to look it over will be pleased to forward it when
fully priced.
With best wishes,
Yours Truly
W. I. Whiting
Care Scammell Bros
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WI Whiting
Correspondent:
As yet we have no information about
this correspondent.
Notes
- 1. See the letter from Whiting
to Whitman of June 14, 1886, listing prices
obtained at auction for a Whitman letter and a first edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman forwarded the letter to the Critic on June 17. [back]