David McKay to Walt Whitman, 6 April 1891

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Title: David McKay to Walt Whitman, 6 April 1891
Date: April 6, 1891
Creator(s): David Hutcheson | Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: upa.00128
Source: Walt Whitman Collection, 1842–1957, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
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Cite this page: Hutcheson, David and Walt Whitman. "David McKay to Walt Whitman, 6 April 1891." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 09 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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upa.00128.001_large.jpg Successor to REES WELSH & CO.'S Miscellaneous Business OLD BOOKS IN ANY QUANTITY BOUGHT, SOLD AND EXCHANGED. David McKay, Publisher and Bookseller, 23 South Ninth Street. Philadelphia,4. 6 1891 Friend Walt

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Yours David

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Correspondent:
David McKay (1860–1918) took over Philadelphia-based publisher Rees Welsh's bookselling and publishing businesses in 1881–82. McKay and Rees Welsh published the 1881 edition of Leaves of Grass after opposition from the Boston District Attorney prompted James R. Osgood & Company of Boston, the original publisher, to withdraw. McKay also went on to publish Specimen Days & Collect, November Boughs, Gems from Walt Whitman, Complete Prose Works, and the final Leaves of Grass, the so-called deathbed edition. For more information about McKay, see Joel Myerson, "McKay, David (1860–1918)," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (New York: Garland Publishing, 1998).