Title: James R. Osgood & Company to Walt Whitman, 13 December 1881
Date: December 13, 1881
Whitman Archive ID: loc.05164
Source: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1842–1937, 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.
Editorial note: The annotation, "Osgood letter Dec: 13 '81 | permission to sell the '76 edition | ☝," is in the hand of Walt Whitman.
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JR OSGOOD AND CO
211 TREMONT STREET,
Boston,
Decr
13 1881.
Walt Whitman, Esq.
Dear Sir:
We have sent you the 15 Leaves of Grass & 30 sheets as desired.
We enclose a list of editorials already sent for purposes of comparison, in case you might happen to duplicate.
We do not think the disposal of the old edition will in the least interfere with the new one; and shall be very glad if the new attention called to your writings enables you to dispose of them speedily and completely
Very truly Yours:
James R. Osgood & Co.
P.S. We find there are only 6 sets of the sheets of [new?] poems left.—these we send
Papers to which "Leaves of Grass" have been sent, by J.R.O. & Co.
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