Yours of yesterday rec'd 1—In answer: please send me, soon as convenient, a typewritten copy—or, (better still) a good proof, of the article, to which I could make additions or emendations—Yes, I "leave its publication to your convenience"—I shall consider your Magazine the owner of the article—I reserving the right to print in future book, but only after its publication by you—(some months after at least—probably a year after)—
Walt WhitmanThe enclosed slip returned having probably got in your yesterday's letter to me by mistake
loc.02069.002_large.jpg Walt WhitmanCorrespondent:
A note on this letter in an
unidentified hand suggests that the letter was written to Dana H. Ferreu of The
Century Company. As yet we have no additional information about this
correspondent.