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Walt Whitman to William C. Church and Francis P. Church, 2 November 187[1]

I offer the enclosed Poem "The Mystic Trumpeter" for the January number, 1872, of Galaxy.2 The price is $40. . . .

Walt Whitman

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  • 1.

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    William Conant Church and Francis Pharcellus Church, editors of the Galaxy, printed several of Whitman's poems beginning in 1867. The first notice of Walt Whitman to appear in the magazine was John Burroughs' 1866 review of Drum-Taps.

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  • 2. Apparently the Churches rejected "The Mystic Trumpeter," which appeared in the Kansas Magazine in February 1872; Whitman wrote of his relationship with the magazine in his January 26, 1872 letter to Thomas Jefferson Whitman. [back]
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