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Camden1
Jan. 17 '87— P M
The "Press" newspaper of Philadelphia has just sent over to say to me that they would
like to have the article "New Orleans in 1848"2 (MS. sent
on by me) to print it in their columns—with your permission—Jan. 25,
giving you due credit, & saying it appears in your
columns that day—So if agreeable send them an early proof, for that purpose—address "R W Kerswell,
"Press" newspaper Philadelphia"—(I have just promised Mr K to write the
foregoing)—
Walt Whitman
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Correspondent:
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Notes
- 1. This letter is addressed:
Editor Picayune | newspaper | New Orleans | Louisiana. It is postmarked: Camden
| Jan | 17 | 8 PM | 1887 | N.J.; Philadelphia, Pa. | Jan | 17 | 9 PM | 1887 |
Transit. [back]
- 2. On January 11 Walt Whitman had received a request from
the Picayune for an account of his experiences in New
Orleans, which was to appear on January 25, the newspaper's "fiftieth year
edition" (Prose Works 1892, ed. by Floyd Stovall, 2 vols.
[1963–1964], 605). The poet sent the article on January 16 and received
$25 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the
Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington,
D.C.). [back]