Feinberg/Whitman
Box 11 Folder 4
General Correspondence
Harte, Bret 
Apr. 4-13 1870
DCN 181ROOMS OF
The Overland Monthly
San Francisco, Apl 13th 1870

My dear sir,
I fear that the
"Passage to India" is a poem
too long and too abstract for
the hasty and material minded
readers of the O.M.
With many  thanks, I am
Your obt svt.,
F. Bret Harte
Ed. O.M. 

Mr. Walt Whitman
Washington
D.C.sent April 4 '70

Attorney General's Office.
Washington April 4, 1870
Editor Overland
Monthly:
Would the accompanying
piece, "Passage to India"
be available to you,
to be printed as leading
article in either the
June or July number
of the "Overland"?
The price is $200,
an I should like
20 copies of the number.
--I reserve the right
to print it in future
book. My address is at this office
Very respectfully.
Overland
Monthly
sent April 4 '701870 Apr. 4   WHITMAN TO THE EDITORS OF OVERLAND MONTHLY 
[BRET HARTE]; from Washington. A.L., draft (1p. 20½ x 13 cm.)

Offering Passage to India as leading article to the Overland Monthly, San 
Francisco for $200 and 20 copies of the number -- if accepted.

With this:  A.L.s. (with envelope) by Bret Harte, editor of Overland 
Monthly, from San Francisco, dated April 13, 1870:  "I fear that the Passage 
to India is a poem too long and too abstract for the hasty and material minded 
readers of the O.M."                                                                                         {181}The Overland Monthly

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April 2 1888
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SAN FRANCISCO CAL.
APR
14

Mr. Walt Whitman
Attorney General' s Office
Washington
D.C.CARRIER
APR
21
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