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Title: Walt Whitman to S.S. McClure Syndicate, 14 June [1887]
Date: June 14, 1887
Whitman Archive ID: loc.07193
Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 4:102. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Ryan Furlong, Stefan Schöberlein, Kevin McMullen, and Stephanie Blalock
328 Mickle Street
Camden New Jersey
June 14 P M
I am inclined to say yes to Mr McClure's proposition. Will a week or ten days from now do, to send in the piece, if at all? Please send me Mr. McClure's address, as I sh'd like to treat with him.1
Walt Whitman
Correspondent:
Samuel Sidney McClure
(1857–1949) was an investigative journalist who in 1884 established the
first newspaper syndicate in the United States, which occasionally solicited and
published work by Whitman; later, he co-founded McClure's
Magazine, which published work by Whitman posthumously.
Notes:
1. On June 25 Whitman sent McClure "The Dying Veteran," for which he received $25 (see letter from Whitman to S. S. McClure, June 25 1887). The poem appeared in McClure's Magazine in June, in the Springfield Daily Republican on July 11, and in the Pall Mall Gazette (London) on July 9. [back]