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Boston
Jan. 4, 1884.
Walt Whitman
Dear Sir—
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your autograph?
Very truly yours—
Alice G. Brown.1
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Correspondent:
As yet we have no information about
this correspondent.
Notes
- 1. Whitman was quite annoyed
over the many letters he had been recieving from autograph hounds and often
complained to his disciple Horace Traubel about them: "Those fellows have one
virtue—they always use good paper: and on that I manage to do a good deal
of my writing" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in
Camden, Friday, July 27, 1888). On the back of this letter, Whitman began
drafting notes for an article about himself,
titled "Walt Whitman in Camden," which appeared in The
Critic on February 28, 1885, under the signature of George Selwyn. It
was reprinted in Authors at Home, ed. J. L. and J. B.
Gilder (1888), and in Critic Pamphlet No. 2
(1898). [back]