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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]