Titus M. Coan to Walt Whitman, 22 November 1880
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Titus M Coan's letter
books sent $10 due from Century Club
THE CENTURY
109 EAST 15TH STREET
November 22d 1880
My Dear Sir,
Please send us your "author's edition" of the Poems, for the library of this club, with bill for our Treasurer to pay next month.
—I have been long
on the look-out for a copy
of the "Leaves of Grass," first
edition, but have not yet succeeded
in finding one. In
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any edition, first or last, I
believe they are to have
lasting remembrance. They
are the American poetry
which the Old World has
been challenging us so long
to produce; they "stir the
blood like the sound of a
trumpet."