Walt Whitman to Edmund Routledge, 17 January 1868 a machine readable transcription Walt Whitman Kenneth M. Price Ed Folsom Transcription and encoding The Walt Whitman Archive Staff Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Iowa National Historical Publications and Records Commission 2010 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 loc.01569 The following are responsible for particular readings or for changes to this file, as noted: Kenneth M. Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt WhitmanEdwin Haviland Miller The Correspondence New York New York University Press 1961–19772 2 13–14 Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Edmund Routledge, 17 January 1868 January 17, 1868 MSS18630, Box 15 The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Walt Whitman Edmund Routledge added schematron declaration blessed checked encoded extracted transcription from Major Authors cd Sent Jan 17, '68 probably left N. Y. Jan 18, '68 Edmund Routledge: Dear Sir:

In compliance with request in your name in letter from George Routledge & Sons, New York, of December 28th & my own reply thereto of December 30th, I send you herewith a poem for the Magazine, if found acceptable. For my own convenience & to insure correctness I have had the MS. put in type, & thus transmit it to you in the shape of a printed proof. The price is $120 in gold, payable here, and I should like 30 copies of the Magazine, sent me here. It is to be distinctly understood that I reserve the right to print it in any future editions of my book. Hoping success to the Magazine, & that my piece may be found acceptable for it, I remain

Respectfully &c yours, Walt Whitman

My address is at Attorney General's Office, Washington City, U.S.A.