Title: Walt Whitman to the Librarian of Congress, 20 December 1875
Date: December 20, 1875
Whitman Archive ID: med.00440
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), 2:345. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Kenneth M. Price, Elizabeth Lorang, Kathryn Kruger, Zachary King, and Eric Conrad
431 Stevens st.
cor West.
Camden,
N. Jersey.
Dec. 20, '75
Librarian Congress:Dear Sir:
Please furnish me with Copyright for "Two Rivulets," as per title enclosed. Is the $1 the right sum?
Yours truly
Walt Whitman
If perfectly convenient—& you have a printed slip with Copyright laws, (latest) please enclose with document.