Skip to main content
  1. Home
  2. Letters
  3. Correspondence
  4. med.00762

Henry M. Alden to Walt Whitman, 22 October 1884

About This Item

  • Title: Henry M. Alden to Walt Whitman, 22 October 1884
  • Date: October 22, 1884
  • Creator(s): Henry M. Alden | Horace Traubel
  • Whitman Archive ID: med.00762
  • Source: The location of this manuscript is unknown. The transcription presented here is derived from Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1915), 218–219. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Alex Kinnaman Stefan Schöberlein Ian Faith Kyle Barton Nicole Gray
  • Cite this page: Alden, Henry M. and Horace Traubel. "Henry M. Alden to Walt Whitman, 22 October 1884." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 25 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: med.00762.xml (TEI)
Harper & Brothers' Editorial Rooms. New York, Oct. 22, 1884. Dear Mr. Whitman:

Please find enclosed Messrs Harper & Brothers' cheque for thirty dollars in payment for your poem Of That Blithe Throat of Thine. And you have the Messrs Harpers' permission to use the poem in a collection of your poems six months (or later) after our publication.1

With thanks, sincerely yours, H. M. Alden. Editor of Harpers' Magazine.

Correspondent:
Henry Mills Alden (1836–1919) was managing editor of Harper's Weekly from 1863 to 1869 and editor of Harper's Monthly Magazine from 1869 until his death.

Notes

Back to top