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Title: Walt Whitman to the Editor of The North American Review, ? December 1886
Date: December ?, 1886
Whitman Archive ID: med.00749
Source: The location of this 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), 4:61. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
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If the War Memoranda piece is in Jan. number, please send me three numbers.1
Walt Whitman
Camden, New Jersey
Correspondent:
The North
American Review was the first literary magazine in the United States.
The journalist Charles Allen Thorndike Rice (1851–1889) edited and
published the magazine in New York from 1876 until his death. Whitman's friend
James Redpath joined the North American Review as
managing editor in 1886. After Rice's death, Lloyd Bryce (1852–1915)
became owner and editor. At the time of this letter, William Rideing
(1853–1918) was assistant editor of the magazine.
Notes:
1. Since "Some War Memoranda. Jotted Down at the Time" appeared in the January 1887 issue of The North American Review, this note was probably written in December 1886. [back]