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thanks for the beautiful Vols Volumes and the autographs and postal card and the letters in the London Journal
The very day the Journal —containing your letters—arrived, part of the letter was quoted in the S.F.
Thanks for the Journals which have reach'd reached me— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William Torrey Harris
I am an etcher and I enclose a few notices from The Times and other journals in case you have never seen
He published some remarks of yours on "Music" in his Broadway Journal ; with a few words of approval,
The paper in our opinion is a good one well Edited rather more spicy than our journals The boys read
While I am about it, would you give me room to correct "The Genesis of Walt Whitman" in Appleton's Journal
The Journal speaks of Walt Whitman as habitually wearing, while living in New York, a red flannel shirt