Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Editor, 13 April 1879

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Title: Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Editor, 13 April 1879
Date: April 13, 1879
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: yal.00448
Source: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The transcription presented here is derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), 152. 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: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Editor, 13 April 1879." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 18 April 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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April 13 '79 My dear Sir

To break the tedium of my half-invalidism—& as an experiment—I have come on to N Y to try a lecture—Can't you give me a little lift in to-morrow's paper—Something like the below?1

Walt Whitman

Notes

1. Probably Whitman sent an account of his lecture to this unidentified editor similar to the one mentioned in his letter to Whitelaw Reid of April 14, 1879. [back]