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328 Mickle Street
Camden New Jersey1
April 19 '90
To the Editor or Superintendent:2
The printed slip seems to me more or less flat & erroneous—at a venture
I send you in the MS sheet what I think would be a better brief biographical
note for the book—wh' sheet I hope you will substitute & cancel the other
yr's respectfully
Walt Whitman
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Correspondent:
As yet we have no information about
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Notes
- 1. Stamped on the upper left
corner of this letter is "1918 Bequest of E. J. Wendell." [back]
- 2. This letter may have been
addressed to Dodd, Mead, & Co, a publishing house in New York City,
regarding their April 15, 1890, letter requesting
Whitman's contribution to a projected volume on Abraham Lincoln. [back]