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CHARLES F. WINGATE,1
CONSULTING SANITARY ENGINEER,
NO. 119 PEARL STREET,
[Hanover Square.]
New York Oct 5 1886
Dear Sir,
Poet of Democracy have you no message to the struggling masses, [illegible] for Henry George2 in New
York—
Speak with no uncertain sound
Yours
C F Wingate
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Correspondent:
In March 1870, Charles Frederick Wingate
(1848–1909) was serving as a New York correspondent for the Republican of Springfield, Massachusetts. In the 1880s
and 90s, he became Sanitary Engineer in New York City, delivering lectures and
writing newspaper columns about the city's sanitation practices and
problems.
Notes
- 1. This letter is addressed:
Walt Whitman Esq | Camden | NJ. The return address is: CHARLES F. WINGATE, |
CONSULTING SANITARY ENGINEER, | Expert Examination of
Plumbing, Heating and Ventilation, | NO. 119 PEARL STREET, NEW YORK. It
is postmarked: NEW YORK | OCT 5 | 1 PM | 86; CAMDEN, N.J. | OCT | 6 | 7 AM |
1886 | REC'D. [back]
- 2. Henry George
(1839–1897) was an American writer and political economist whose writings
inspired a variety of reform movements in the Progessive Era. [back]