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Walt Whitman to Louisa Drewry, 1 July 1890

In accordance with the note of June 20 (recd. with pay, thanks) I send same mail, same address as this the two Vols. requested. Soon as they arrive wd. you kindly send me word?1

Walt Whitman

Correspondent:
Louisa Drewry (1834–1916) of Middlesex, England, began teaching Greek and Latin classes for women in the early 1860s. She became a founding faculty member of The Working Women's College in 1864. She continued teaching classes for women in literature, composition, and history until approximately 1910, and she had amassed a library of 2,000 books by the time of her death in 1916. She was a member of the Browning Society, a contributor to the English Woman's Journal, and is author of A Simple Method of Grammatical Analysis (London: George Bell & Sons, 1891).


Notes

  • 1. On June 20, 1890, Louisa Drewry, whom H. Buxton Forman mentioned in his letters of June 4, 1890 and June 16, 1890, requested copies of Complete Poems & Prose and the pocket-book edition of Leaves of Grass, published in 1889 in honor of Whitman's seventieth birthday, and sent £2.8. [back]
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