George Heard to Walt Whitman, 25 October 1880

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Title: George Heard to Walt Whitman, 25 October 1880
Date: October 25, 1880
Creator(s): George Heard
Whitman Archive ID: loc.05763
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Cite this page: Heard, George. "George Heard to Walt Whitman, 25 October 1880." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 15 February 2026. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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loc_ej.00931.jpg Books sent GEO. HEARD,1
BROKER IN PETROLEUM OIL CITY, PA., Oct. 25th 1880 Mr. Walt Whitman, Camden N.J. Dear Sir,

Enclosed herein please find New York draft for ten dollars, for which please send me the "Centennial Edition" of your works. I get the information that you sell these books yourself from a foot note to loc_ej.00930.jpg loc_ej.00947.jpg an article on you in the November Number of Scribners Monthly, by Edmund C. Steadman .

A reply to this in your own hand writing will be highly appreciated.

Very truly yours, Geo. Heard.

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Notes

1. This letter was crossed out and cut in half. On the back Whitman wrote part of a prose draft titled "Poetry in America—Shakspere—the Future." [back]