Title: Walt Whitman to Sampson, Low, & Company, 1 February 1875
Date: February 1, 1875
Whitman Archive ID: med.00436
Source: The location of the original manuscript is unknown. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 6:12. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Janel Cayer, Kenneth M. Price, Elizabeth Lorang, Kathryn Kruger, Zachary King, and Eric Conrad
1.
Sampson, Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, London booksellers, handled the
English distribution of Leaves of Grass and Democratic Vistas.
According to the auction record (Parke-Bernet, February 7–8, 1944),
Whitman addressed the letter to "Messrs. Samson Low & Co." [back]