Benjamin Ticknor to Walt Whitman, 14 November 1881 a machine readable transcription Benjamin Ticknor Kenneth M. Price Ed Folsom Transcription and encoding Kirsten Clawson Stefan Schöberlein Nima Najafi Kianfar Nicole Gray Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Iowa National Historical Publications and Records Commission 2013 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 loc.05171 Benjamin Ticknor Benjamin Ticknor to Walt Whitman, 14 November 1881 November 14, 1881 The Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1842–1937, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Benjamin Ticknor Walt Whitman added schematron declaration added image references, updated transcription annotations added checked, corrected proofed checked Transcribed and Encoded 211 Tremont Street. Boston, Nov. 14 1881. Dear Mr. Whitman:

The book starts well and is already receiving the correct mingling of voices in the chorus that is arising over it.

I want to ask, if you could, by way of a latter day benefaction to some survivors of the army that you devoted your labors of love to nearly twenty years ago—let me have some little thing for the paper to be published during the Fair of which I enclose a circular?

It's a noble object to get the remaining poor fellows out of the almshouses and into a home of their own. I am doing what little I can & among other things, helping to get contributions for "The Sword and the Pen,"—so the paper is to be called.

If you can help me, it will please me much and aid the cause more.

With best regards Very Truly Yours: B. H. Ticknor Walt Whitman Esq

PS. The first edition is all gone & we are binding up the second.