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Walt Whitman to David Bogue, 14 December 1881

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to David Bogue, 14 December 1881
  • Date: December 14, 1881
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: tex.00424
  • Source: T. E. Hanley Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 257. 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 David Bogue, 14 December 1881." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 22 November 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: tex.00424.xml (TEI)
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America Dec: 14 '81 Dear Sir1

I wish you would have a little circular printed—(or some special paragraph inserted in your regular list, & marked)—announcing the new Osgood 1882 edition of Leaves of Grass with your place as the London agency & depository—and send to the names on the accompanying list2—all special friends of the book—

Walt Whitman

Notes

  • 1. See the letter from Whitman to James R. Osgood & Company of December 8, 1881. [back]
  • 2. The "list of names in Eng[land]" is not with the letter (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). [back]
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