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Title: William J. Bok to Walt Whitman, 18 October 1890
Date: October 18, 1890
Whitman Archive ID: loc.04976
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.
Related item: Whitman drew a line in black ink through Bok's letter and the enclosed information about the contributors to Bok Syndicate press. On the back, he wrote a note regarding "Mr. Bourquin," perhaps intending to present the Bok materials to Bourquin.
Contributors to digital file: Andrew David King, Cristin Noonan, Brandon James O'Neil, and Stephanie Blalock
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EDWARD W. BOK.
WILLIAM J. BOK.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
THE BOK SYNDICATE PRESS
No. 23 Park Row, New York
Cable Address:
BOK, NEW YORK."
October 18, 1890.
Walt Whitman. Esqre.—
My dear Mr. Whitman:—
May I not be favored with your literary plans for the balance of the Autumn and the coming Winter? Also if you are engaged in doing Christmas work? I will be greatly obliged to you for this courtesy, let me assure you.
Allow me to enclose one of our recent literary letters. I earnestly hope to be honored with a line or two from you e're long.
With respect,
Heartily yours,
William J. Bok.
Correspondent:
William John Bok (born
Willem Joannes Bruno Eduard Hidde Bok, 1861–1928) was a journalist and
newspaper columnist born at Den Helder in the Netherlands. The Bok family
immigrated to the United States in 1870, where his father found work in New York
as a linguist and translator. In 1886, Bok and his brother
Edward(1863–1930)—later Editor of the Ladies' Home
Journal—founded the Bok Syndicate Press that contributed to
newspapers around the U.S.