The Walt Whitman Archive
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Title: Walt Whitman to Edward Sprague Marsh, 11 January 1883
Date: January 11, 1883
Whitman Archive ID: yal.00118
Source: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book
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Notes for this letter were created by Whitman Archive staff and/or were derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller, 6 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), and supplemented or updated by Whitman Archive staff.
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431 Stevens Street
Camden New Jersey
Jan 11 '83
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
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]