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Title: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger to Walt Whitman, 5 January 1878
Date: January 5, 1878
Whitman Archive ID: loc.05692
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.
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Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger,
Publishers, Booksellers, Importers & Stationers,
Nos. 624, 626 & 628 Market Street.
Philadelphia,
Jan. 5th 1878
Mr. Whitman,
Dear Sir:
Please send, in addition to the copies of Leaves of Grass, ordered by mail this morning, one copy of The Two Rivulets.
Will you kindly state on the bill, the1
Notes:
1. The rest of this letter has been cut away. Whitman repurposed this letter, writing on the back a series of notes toward his lecture on the death of Abraham Lincoln. [back]