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Correspondence

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Title: Walt Whitman to Charles A. Dana, 2 April 1882

Date: April 2, 1882

Whitman Archive ID: prc.00076

Source: According to Miller, this letter was in the private collection of Rollo G. Silver. The current location of the 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), 3:272. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.

Contributors to digital file: Stefan Schoeberlein, Nima Najafi Kianfar, Eder Jaramillo, and Nicole Gray




Camden New Jersey
April 2 '82

My dear Dana1

Yes I am willing you should make extracts—Enclosed (suggestions of the moment) two or three slips from new edition—


Walt Whitman


Notes:

1. Charles A. Dana (1819–1897) was the editor of the New York Sun (see the letter from Whitman to Robert Carter of May 7, 1875). In The Household Book of Poetry (1882) Dana included six poems from Leaves of Grass: "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night," "A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim," "Great Are the Myths," "The Mystic Trumpeter," and excerpts from "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "Song of Myself" (section 35). [back]


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