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The Daily Graphic1
January 19, 1874
Walt Whitman:
We enclose the proof of your second article; but would much prefer that you should get the copy
strait the first time. Such
very heavy corrections in proof cause great embarrassment and expense in a newspaper office. We
are quite willing to give proofs for verbal corrections; but we do not like to reset and readjust
so largely. So please have a care to fix your copy correctly before sending it in.
Yours very truly
DG Croly
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Correspondent:
David Goodman Croly (1829-1889) was the editor
of the New York Daily Graphic and, earlier, the New York World.
Notes
- 1. The New York Daily Graphic
published a number of Walt Whitman's poems and prose pieces in 1873 and 1874. In
1873, it printed "Nay, Tell Me Not To-day the Publish'd Shame" (March 5, 1873), "With All the Gifts, America" (March 6, 1873), "The Singing Thrush" (March 15, 1873; later called "Wandering at
Morn"), "Spain" (March 24, 1873), "Sea Captains, Young or Old" (April 4, 1873; later called "Song for
All Seas, All Ships"), "Warble for Lilac-Time" (May 12, 1873), "Halls of Gold
and Lilac" (November 24, 1873), and "Silver and Salmon-Tint" (November 29,
1873). In 1874, the Daily Graphic printed "A Kiss to the Bride" (May 21, 1874), "Song of the Universal" (June 17, 1874), and "An Old Man's Thought of School" (November 3, 1874). On November 25,
1873, a picture of Whitman and a review of his work (excerpted by Richard
Maurice Bucke, Walt Whitman [Philadelphia: David McKay, 1883], 209–210)
occupied an entire page of the paper (as Whitman alludes to in his November 28, 1873, letter to Peter Doyle). An
editorial in the same issue added biographical details, probably supplied by
Whitman himself, and announced the forthcoming publication of the sixth edition
of Leaves of Grass. For more on Whitman's relationship
with the Daily Graphic, see Susan Belasco, "The New York Daily Graphic." [back]