Title: E. C. Cheever to Walt Whitman, 20 October 1880
Date: October 20, 1880
Creator(s): E. C. Cheever
Whitman Archive ID: loc.05765
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Cite this page: Cheever, E. C.. "E. C. Cheever to Walt Whitman, 20 October 1880." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 08 December 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
loc_ej.00937.jpgbooks sent OFFICE OF LATHROP COAL AND MINING CO. MINERS AND DEALERS IN COAL. A. B. ASHLEY, Supt. E. C. CHEEVER, Cashier.Kewanee, Ills. Oct 20 18801Walt Whitman
Camden, N.J.
Dr Sir:
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a copy of this Edition to
Yours very trulyE. C. Cheever
Kewanee
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Notes
1. This letter was crossed out
and cut in half. On the back Whitman wrote part of a prose draft titled "Poetry
in America—Shakspere—the Future." [back]