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Walt Whitman to Edward Sprague Marsh, 11 January 1883

 yal.00118.001_large.jpg Dear Sir1

Yours of 2d just rec'd​ . The Centennial or 1876 edition of "Leaves of Grass" and "Two Rivulets" (the ed'n​ preceding the last) is in two vols​ price $6 the two—I have some copies & can furnish you with a set—Should you wish them send me p o order & I will forward them by mail—

Walt Whitman  yal.00118.002_large.jpg

Notes

  • 1. Edward Sprague Marsh (1857–?) was a lawyer in Brandon, Vermont, a collector of rare books, and the editor and publisher of the Brandon Chronicle in 1894 ("Marsh, Edward Sprague," The Encyclopedia of Vermont Biography, ed. Prentiss Cutler Dodge [Burlington, Vermont: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912], 258). [back]
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