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New York
April 18, '89
Mr. Walt Whitman
Dear Sir,
In common with many others I am already under a debt of gratitude to you, but I ask
one thing further. Will you kindly[cut away]1
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Correspondent:
As yet we have no information about
this correspondent.
Notes
- 1. The rest of this letter has
been cut away, and it is uncertain if the missing part is extant. Whitman likely
wrote additional notes on the back of the bottom half of the letter. The
correspondent is unknown, but the purpose of the letter seems to be to ask for
Whitman's autograph. [back]