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FREDERICK A. STOKES, Successor to
WHITE, STOKES, & ALLEN,
PUBLISHERS, STATIONERS, AND IMPORTERS,
182 Fifth Avenue, New York.
April 30th, 1887.
Mr. Walt Whitman:
328 Mickle St., Camden,
N.J.
Dear Sir:
I have your kind card of the 29th inst.,1 and in reply would say that you are indebted entirely to
Mr. Browne2 for the copy of 'Bugle Echoes' which you have received.3
I take pleasure in forwarding the card to him as you request, also in saying that in
case you desire another copy of the book for any purpose, I shall feel honored if
you will allow me to send it to you with my compliments.
Very truly yours,
Frederick A. Stokes
Dictated.
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Fredk A Stokes
Correspondent:
Frederick Abbot Stokes
(1857–1939) was a famous baritone, writer and publisher. He co-founded
White, Stokes, & Allen, a New York-based publishing house that printed highly
ornamented books.
Notes
- 1. See Whitman's letter to
White, Stokes, & Allen of April 29, 1887. [back]
- 2. Francis Fisher Browne
(1843–1913) was an American poet, critic, and editor of The Dial. [back]
- 3. Bugle Echoes
was a collection of poems of the Civil War edited by Francis F. Browne and
published by White, Stokes & Allen in 1886. The collection contained six
poems by Whitman: "Beat! Beat! Drums!," "Come Up from the Fields Father,"
"Bivouac on a Mountain Side," "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," "When Lilacs Last
in the Dooryard Bloom'd," and "O Captain! My Captain!" [back]