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 loc.05276 Walt Whitman Edwin Haviland Miller The Correspondence New York New York University Press 1969 5 305–306 Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to John Fraser, 27 November 1878 November 27, 1878 MSS18630, Box 10, Reel 6 The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Walt Whitman John Fraser added schematron declaration checked, corrected proofed checked, corrected encoded 431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America Nov November 27 '78 Dear Sir

Mr Child tells me you would like a piece from me for the Tobacco Plant. Will this do? The price is $12—(? two pounds eight shilshillings)—

If you print it I hope you have a good proof reader, & that he will be very particular with it—

Walt Whitman

Also please send me three copies, & direct a copy each to

Wm M Rosetti 56 Euston Sq London n w Thos: Dixon 15 Sunderland st. Sunderland Prof: Edward Dowden, Temple Rd. Winsted, Rathmines, Dublin Rafe Leycester, Toft, Knutsford, Country Cheshire Edward Carpenter, 45 Brunswick Sq. Brighton J A Symonds, Clifton Hill House, Bristol Robt Buchanan, Editor Light, London Alfred Tennyson, Eaton Square, London J Leicester Warren, 67 Onslow Sq: London s w

P S—I am not an anti-tobacconist—On the contrary have seen how important & valuable the sedative was in the extensive military hospitals of our Secession war—Still I do not smoke or chew myself—Sometimes wish I did smoke now in my old age & invalidism—but it is too late to learn—

But my brothers & all my near friends are smokers, & I am accustomed to it—live among smokers, & always carry cigars in my pocket to give special friends who prize them—