The Walt Whitman Archive
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Title: Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Editor, [1890]
Date: [1890]
Whitman Archive ID: med.00927
Source: The location of this manuscript is unknown. Edwin Haviland Miller derives his transcription from a catalog published by the Anderson Auction Company, November 23, 1909. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 5:141. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Andrew David King, Cristin Noonan, and Stephanie Blalock
Camden1
1890
Dear Editor,
If you put this in type send me a proof without fail—put this MS. in some good compositor's hands in the printing office & he will get along well enough with it.
Correspondent:
As yet we have no information about
this correspondent.
Notes:
1. Until the manuscript appears, it is impossible to arrive at a more precise date for this note. [back]