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James Gordon Bennett to Walt Whitman, 4 May 1888

 YCAL_MSS-13-4.jpg (H.G 191) Dear Sir:

Enclosed please find $40.00, payment for services for Apl.​ 88

Please acknowledge receipt by return mail, and oblige,

Yours very truly, J. G. BENNETT. To Walt Whitman  YCAL_MSS-13-3.jpg

Correspondent:
James Gordon Bennett Jr. (1841–1918) was the publisher of the New York Herald, which had been founded by his father in 1835. For more on the paper and the many poems by Whitman that were published in it, see Susan Belasco, "The New York Herald."

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