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John Phillips Street to Walt Whitman, 16 July 1891

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  • Title: John Phillips Street to Walt Whitman, 16 July 1891
  • Date: July 16, 1891
  • Creator(s): John Phillips Street
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.04752
  • Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.

    Notes for this letter were created by Whitman Archive staff and/or were derived from Walt Whitman, The Correspondence, ed. Edwin Haviland Miller, 6 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977), and supplemented or updated by Whitman Archive staff.
  • Contributors to digital file: Ian Faith Amanda J. Axley Marie Ernster Stephanie Blalock
  • Cite this page: Street, John Phillips. "John Phillips Street to Walt Whitman, 16 July 1891." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 13 October 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.04752.xml (TEI)
 loc_gt.00227_large.jpg John Phillips Street New Brunswick, N.J. July 16, 1891 Walt Whitman, Esq.,— Dear Sir:—

Your advertising circular which you send me gives me much of the information I want & I thank you for it.1 However my pocket-book just at present is in such a condition that I will have to content myself with a cheaper edition. If it is not troubling you too much, can you not recommend to me some cheaper edition of your complete poems, sold for $2 or $3.20

Yours very truly, John Phillips Street  loc_gt.00228_large.jpg  loc_gt.00229_large.jpg  loc_gt.00230_large.jpg

Correspondent:
John Phillips Street (1869–1938) earned a B.S. at Rutgers College in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1889 and worked at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station; he wrote on agricultural science.

Notes

  • 1. According to a note Whitman wrote at the top of Street's July 13, 1891, letter, Whitman sent Street a circular listing his books and their prices. Whitman also wrote Street on July 14, 1891, recommending Walt Whitman (1883), a biography of the poet by the Canadian physician Richard Maurice Bucke. [back]
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