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Title: Louis Karpstyin to Walt Whitman, 4 November 1881

Date: November 4, 1881

Whitman Archive ID: loc.07437

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 crossed out this letter, pasted it together with another piece of paper, and on the back wrote part of "All about a proof reader" (see Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, ed. Edward F. Grier [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 3:1134–1135).

Contributors to digital file: Jeannette Schollaert and Nicole Gray