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24 May 18891
My
sir.
I am a poor letter-press labourer, that read your poems in
the selected translations of professor Gamberale.2
I desire read your poems in the original; but in Italy I not have aid for to acquire
the volume.
I pray then you to rec to my a copy. I will be fortunate in case you shall write your
name upon the volume.
I pray you to pardon to me this nonsensical letter
Yours sincerely
Laurence Galimberti
Tipografo—Cuneo.
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Correspondent:
As yet we have no information about
this correspondent.
Notes
- 1. This letter is addressed: To
Walt Whitman in | Camden, New Jersey | (Stati Uniti
d'America). It is postmarked: CUNEO | 24 | 5-89 | 12M; Torino [illegible] | No. 3 | 24 | Mae | 89|
(Ambie); New York | Jun 4 | 89; Paid |
C | All; Camden, NJ | Jun 5 | 10AM | 1889 | REC'D. [back]
- 2. Luigi Gamberale published
several translations of Whitman's poetry into Italian. Galimberti may be
referring to Gamberale's Cati Sceliti Di Walt Whitman,
published in Milan in 1887. [back]