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New York1
May 2d./82
Mr. Walter Whitman
Camden N.J.
Dear Sir,
The Publisher and senior
Editor of Demorest's Illustrated
Magazine requests me to ask you
for a Poem of sixty lines from your
pen for which he offers fifty dollars.
It is for an Anniversary number,
and must be sent before the fifteenth
of May.
Any social or retrospective topic
Respectfully Yours
Mrs J. C. Croly
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Notes
- 1. This letter was crossed out
and repurposed by Whitman. On the back he drafted some lines that would end up
in the article titled "Walt Whitman in Camden" and attributed to George Selwyn
(The Critic 3 [28 February 1885],
97–98). [back]