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Walt Whitman to Edward P. Clark, 13 June 1874

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Edward P. Clark, 13 June 1874
  • Date: June 13, 1874
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: prc.00094
  • Source: Private collection of Dr. Kendall Reed. A facsimile of the manuscript is in Ted Genoways, "The Correspondence of Walt Whitman: A Third Supplement with Addenda to the Calendar of Letters Written to Whitman," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 18 (Summer/Fall 2000), 3–59. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Ted Genoways (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004), 40. 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 Jonathan Y. Cheng Elizabeth Lorang Nima Najafi Kianfar Nicole Gray
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Edward P. Clark, 13 June 1874." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 09 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: prc.00094.xml (TEI)
431 Stevens st.  
 cor West. Camden, N. Jersey June 13. '74 Edward P. Clark Dear Sir,

In answer to your note I send enclosed a copy of my poem for Tuft's College on the 17th—which you are at liberty to publish on the 18th.1 I am not well enough to journey to College Hill, but have sent the piece & requested that it be read in its place on the programme, 17th, exactly the same as though I were present—which doubtless will be done.

Walt Whitman

Correspondent:
Edward P. Clark was the managing editor of the Springfield Republican. He appears to have written, in a letter now lost, to Whitman to request permission to publish the poem, "Song of the Universal," which Whitman was originally scheduled to deliver before the Mathematician Society of Tufts College on June 17. See the letter from Whitman to J. C. Mann of March 25, 1874.

Notes

  • 1. Per Whitman's request, "Song of the Universal" appeared in the Springfield Republican on June 18, 1874. [back]
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