Walt Whitman to Charles A. Dana, 2 April 1882

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Title: Walt Whitman to Charles A. Dana, 2 April 1882
Date: April 2, 1882
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
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), 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 Nicole Gray
Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Charles A. Dana, 2 April 1882." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 20 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
Source File: prc.00076.xml (TEI)

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

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]