Feinberg/Whitman
Box 10 Folder 5
General Correspondence
Fresligrath, Ferdinand
Jan. 26m 1869
DCN179Sent to Freiligrath

Attorney General's Office,
Washington.

sent Jan 26, 1869.

[I have seen your
piece about me, and
A  I]
I have sent you to=day
by ocean mail a copy
of my Leaves of Grass --
not knowing whether you
have received a package
sent you by a friend of mine
some ten weeks since.

I should be well pleased
to hear from you -- 
My address is -- 
Sent to Freiligrath 
with book.
Jan. 26, 1889.1869 Jan. 26  WHITMAN TO FERDINAND FREILIGRATH, German poet;
from Washington.  A.I. draft. (1p. 24 1/2 x 13 cm.)

Announcing that he sent a copy of Leaves of Grass.  The letter had been
started with the words: "I have seen your piece about me, and"; these lines
were crossed out.  They probably referred to a review of Leaves of Grass by
Freiligrath in a German periodical (see The Complete Writings of Walt
Whitman, N. Y., Putnam, 1902, v. 1, p. lxv).  The letter was reproduced in
With Walt Whitman in C., v. 2, p. 326.
{179}1871 Aug. 12  WHITMAN TO F. S. ELLIS, publisher, London, England; 
from Washington, A.L. draft (2p. 25 x 19½ cm.)

[Proposing to Ellis an English publication of a new edition of Leaves of 
Grass.  Referring to Rossetti's selection of his poems he writes:  "I make this 
proposition not only to get my poems before the British public, but more 
because I am annoyed at the horrible dismemberment of my book there 
already and possibility of something worse."  In case Ellis should decide on 
printing Leaves of Grass, everything would be left to him "Only the text 
must be sacredly perserved verbatim."]