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Title: William C. Church to Walt Whitman, 25 March 1868
Date: March 25, 1868
Whitman Archive ID: loc.05013
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 struck through this letter and used the verso side to write notes about "Hind's army reminiscences," which he learned of during a vist to Colonel James M. Scovel's home on January 11, 1885.
Contributors to digital file: Marie Ernster, Paige Wilkinson, Noelle Bates, Amanda J. Axley, and Stephanie Blalock
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AN
ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE
of Entertaining Reading.
Published Monthly.
OFFICE OF THE GALAXY,
NO. 39 PARK ROW,
New York,
March 25 1868.
My Dear Sir
Your proof came to late for us to make the corrections & I return it so that you can transfer them to this proof before sent. Our type has been cast with plates. We are printing a large edition of the May no & have been forced to [illegible] things
Truly Yours
W. C. Church
Correspondent:
William Conant Church (1836–1917), journalist
and publisher, was a correspondent for several New York newspapers until he
founded the Army and Navy Journal in 1863. With his
brother Francis Pharcellus Church (1839–1906), he established the Galaxy in 1866. Financial control of the Galaxy passed to Sheldon & Company in 1868, and it
was absorbed by the Atlantic Monthly in 1878. William
published a biography of his life-long friend Ulysses S. Grant in 1897. See
Edward F. Grier, "Walt Whitman, the Galaxy, and Democratic Vistas," American
Literature, 23 (1951–1952), 332–350; Donald N. Bigelow,
William Conant Church & "The Army and Navy
Journal" (New York: Columbia University Press, 1952); J. R. Pearson, Jr., "Story
of a Magazine: New York's Galaxy, 1866–1878," Bulletin
of the New York Public Library, 61 (1957), 217–237,
281–302.