Title: Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Correspondent, 28 November 1882
Date: November 28, 1882
Whitman Archive ID: ucl.00003
Source: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 3:317–318. 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
431 Stevens Street
Camden New Jersey
Nov:
28 '82
Dear Sir1
I have just come up from a three weeks' visit2 down in the Jersey woods, & find your card of 26th—The only copies of my complete poems "Leaves of Grass," in my control, are of a special autograph & portrait edition, 1882, including everything to date—384 pages, 12 mo—price $3—I can furnish you with this. If you wish it, send p. o. order, & I will forward by mail immediately.
Walt Whitman
I also supply, when desired, my prose volume "Specimen Days & Collect"—price $2.—374 pages 12 mo—
1. This letter may have been sent to L. O. Bliss of Iowa Falls, Iowa, to whom Whitman sent a "gilt-top L of G" on December 18 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.). [back]
2. Whitman was inaccurate, perhaps deliberately: he was with the Staffords at Glendale from November 18 to 27 (Whitman's Commonplace Book). See Whitman's letter to William Sloane Kennedy of November 28, 1882. [back]