The Walt Whitman Archive
Life & Letters
Correspondence
About this Item
Title: James Gordon Bennett to Walt Whitman, 4 May 1888
Date: May 4, 1888
Whitman Archive ID: yal.00475
Source: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 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.
Editorial notes: The annotation, "(H.G 191)," is in an unknown hand.
Related item: Whitman crossed out Bennett's letter, and on the back wrote a draft of the poem "As I Sit Writing Here."
Contributors to digital file: Alex Ashland, Ian Faith, Nicole Gray, Stefan Schöberlein, and Stephanie Blalock
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The Herald.
New York,
5/4 1888
Dear Sir:
Enclosed please find $40.00, payment for services for Apl. 88
Please acknowledge receipt by return mail, and oblige,
Yours very truly,
J. G. BENNETT.
To Walt
Whitman
Correspondent:
James Gordon Bennett Jr.
(1841–1918) was the publisher of the New York
Herald, which had been founded by his father in 1835. For more on the
paper and the many poems by Whitman that were published in it, see Susan
Belasco, "The New York Herald."