Ticknor & Fields, for The Atlantic Monthly, to Walt Whitman, 6 March 1860

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Title: Ticknor & Fields, for The Atlantic Monthly, to Walt Whitman, 6 March 1860
Date: March 6, 1860
Creator(s): Ticknor & Fields | Horace Traubel
Whitman Archive ID: med.00319
Source: Location of original letter manuscript is unknown. The transcription presented here is derived from Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, ed. Sculley Bradley (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953), 77. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang Vanessa Steinroetter
Cite this page: Fields, Ticknor & and Horace Traubel. "Ticknor & Fields, for The Atlantic Monthly, to Walt Whitman, 6 March 1860." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 04 November 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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OFFICE OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY BOSTON, March 6, 1860. MR. WALT WHITMAN—

Sir. We enclose our check for thirty dollars finding your note to be quite correct.

Yours truly, Ticknor & Fields1

1. By the late 1840s Ticknor and Fields were publishing most of their trade books in a dark brown cloth; beginning in 1856 with Tennyson's The Poetical Works, Ticknor and Fields began to print books in a distinctive "blue and gold" binding. For discussion of Ticknor and Fields's "blue and gold" books see Michael Winship, American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 94121. [back]