328 Mickle Street
Camden New Jersey
June 11 1884
Dear Sir1
In answer to yours of yesterday recd (with enclosed check, pay for the
Vol.—thanks—) I send you a copy of the $3 edition of Leaves of Grass—Would you kindly send me a word notifying me of its
receipt?
Walt Whitman
Correspondent:
As yet we have no information about
this correspondent.
Notes
- 1. Early in June, Bartlett
wrote to Whitman for his autograph, and received in reply a printed card
advertising an autographed edition of Leaves of Grass for
$3; the card and envelope as well as Bartlett's notation are in the Clifton
Waller Barrett Collection, University of Virginia. On June 10 Bartlett sent the
money for the book (The Library of Congress), which on the following day Whitman
sent to Chicopee Falls, Mass. (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E. Feinberg
Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C.). [back]