Walt Whitman to Edward Sprague Marsh, 11 January 1883

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Title: Walt Whitman to Edward Sprague Marsh, 11 January 1883
Date: January 11, 1883
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: yal.00118
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Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Edward Sprague Marsh, 11 January 1883." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 15 January 2026. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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Camden New Jersey Jan 11 '83 Dear Sir1

Yours of 2d just rec'd . The Centennial or 1876 edition of "Leaves of Grass" and "Two Rivulets" (the ed'n preceding the last) is in two vols price $6 the two—I have some copies & can furnish you with a set—Should you wish them send me p o order & I will forward them by mail—

Walt Whitman

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Notes

1. Edward Sprague Marsh (1857–?) was a lawyer in Brandon, Vermont, a collector of rare books, and the editor and publisher of the Brandon Chronicle in 1894 ("Marsh, Edward Sprague," The Encyclopedia of Vermont Biography, ed. Prentiss Cutler Dodge [Burlington, Vermont: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912], 258). [back]