328 Mickle Street
Camden New Jersey1
April 29 '87
Thank you for your beautiful & interesting Bugle
Echoes2 which has just reached me—Please send
this to F F Browne3 with my best respects—
Walt Whitman
Correspondent:
White, Stokes, & Allen was a
New York-based publishing house that put out highly ornamented books. It was
founded in 1883 by Joel Parker White (b. 1857), Frank Allen, and
Frederick Abbot Stokes (1857–1939) and ran until 1887.
Notes
- 1. This letter is addressed:
White, Stokes & Allen | Publishers | New York City. It is postmarked:
Camden, N.J. | Apr 29 | 12 M | 87; C | 4-29-87 | 6 P | N.Y. [back]
- 2. Bugle Echoes
was a collection of poems of the Civil War edited by Francis F. Browne and
published by White, Stokes & Allen in 1886. The collection contained six
poems by Whitman: "Beat! Beat! Drums!," "Come Up from the Fields Father,"
"Bivouac on a Mountain Side," "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," "When Lilacs Last
in the Dooryard Bloom'd," and "O Captain! My Captain!" [back]
- 3. Francis Fisher Browne
(1843–1913) was an American poet, critic, and editor of The Dial. [back]