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Title: Editor of The New York Morning Journal to Walt Whitman, 28 July 1890

Date: July 28, 1890

Whitman Archive ID: loc.07385

Source: The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1842–1937, 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.

Related item: Whitman drew a line through this partial letter in black ink and wrote a series of notes and calculations on the back regarding the length of short and long columns in the Critic.

Contributors to digital file: Blake Bronson-Bartlett, Ian Faith, Breanna Himschoot, and Stephanie Blalock



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EDITORIAL ROOMS
OF
The Morning Journal
Room 25, Tribune Building,
New York
July 28 1890

Dear S [illegible]

[illegible]d feel that [illegible] ha [illegible] a great [illegible] upon us [if you would?] consent to write, for [illegible] S [illegible]'s Journal, a [short?] article on some such topic as "Old B[rooklyn?] Days."

W [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]th [illegible] brief essays [illegible] feature of the Sunday [illegible] printing them as " [illegible]ed [editorial?]," with [facsimile?] of autograph [illegible] [pel?] [illegible]

[We?] have had [illegible] excellent names on our contributors'1


Correspondent:
The New York Morning Journal was founded in 1882 by Albert Pulitzer (1851–1909), the younger brother of the newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer (1847–1911). Within a few years Pulitzer sold the paper to John R. McLean (1848–1916), and, later, it was transferred to the newspaper publisher and businessman William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951).

Notes:

1. The rest of the letter is missing. [back]


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