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Title: Alman H. Fogg & Co. to Walt Whitman, 27 October 1880

Date: October 27, 1880

Whitman Archive ID: loc.05788

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.

Editorial note: The annotation, "books sent," is in the hand of Walt Whitman.

Contributors to digital file: Natalie O'Neal, Alex Kinnaman, and Nicole Gray



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Alman H. Fogg & Co.,1
Commission Merchants,
Jobbers and Retailers of
Hardware, Paints & Oils,
Houlton, Me
Oct 27 1880

Walt Whitman

[illegible]


Notes:

1. This letter was crossed out and repurposed by Whitman. He cut it in half, pasted it to other sheets, and on the back wrote part of a prose draft titled "Poetry in America—Shakspere—the Future." [back]


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