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Walt Whitman to Rudolf Schmidt, 8 October 1882

Your handsome "Buster og Masker"2 has safely reach'd​ me—best thanks—I will soon send you a copy of my prose "Specimen Days"3—Dr Bucke's book is not printed yet—My volumes are now published in Philadelphia & are selling fairly—I rec'd.​ & acknowledg'd​ g'd Thorsteinsson's poems4—I am well as usual—

Walt Whitman

Notes

  • 1. This letter is addressed: Rudolf Schmidt | Baggesen's Gate 3 | Copenhagen | Denmark. It is postmarked: Camden | Oct | 8 | 6 PM | N.J.; K | Omb 1 | 3 10 82. [back]
  • 2. Buster og Masker contains a revised version of Schmidt's essay on Whitman originally published in 1872. Schmidt's book, inscribed, is now in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. [back]
  • 3. See the post card from Whitman to Schmidt of October 13, 1882. [back]
  • 4. See the letter from Whitman to Schmidt of December 18, 1881. [back]
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