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Ticknor & Fields, for The Atlantic Monthly, to Walt Whitman, 6 March 1860

MR. WALT WHITMAN—

Sir. We enclose our check for thirty dollars finding your note to be quite correct.

Yours truly, Ticknor & Fields1

Notes

  • 1. By the late 1840s Ticknor and Fields were publishing most of their trade books in a dark brown cloth; beginning in 1856 with Tennyson's The Poetical Works, Ticknor and Fields began to print books in a distinctive "blue and gold" binding. For discussion of Ticknor and Fields's "blue and gold" books see Michael Winship, American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 94–121. [back]
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