Feinberg/Whitman
Box 14 Folder 7
General Correspondence
Oldach, Frederick
Feb. 1889-Nov. 1890
Includes financial accounts.Philadelphia, Feby 21, 1889

Mr. Walt Whitman

FO OLDACH & CO. DR.
Book Binders,

1215 FILBERT STREET AND 114 SOUTH THIRD STREET.

January 25     Binding 1 Poems & Prose s/3  Calf g. type [*128*]          1.28
Feby 8                    "      5      "      &      "       "        "               128                 6.40
         12                   "    21     "      &      "       "        "               128               26.88
         21                   "    24     "      &      "       "        "               128               30.72     65.28
Paid 3/26/89
Oldach & Co
wPhiladelphia, May 15, 1889
Mr Walt Whitman
TO OLDATCH & CO. DR.
BOOKBINDERS
1215 FILBERT ST. and 114 S. THIRD ST.

Side Stamps Leaves of Grass &c  7 00
2 Tuck Samples  increase    75            1 59       8. 50328 Mickle Street
Camden  May 16  '89

Dear Sir

This sample of your
binding (old fashion pocket: book
style with ordinary tongue or tuck: flap,
all holding snug, but not too tight or
stiff) is satisfactory & suits me
best.  The dark green morocco, if
you have it already, will do - but
if you have to get it get a lighter
green.  Bind the whole ed'n alike,
no variety.  Make a stout paper pocket
- (see last page, as written on in sample) -
- In trimming the plates &c. (if yet to be done)
trim them especially No: 1 and No: 4, leaving a little more white paper
at bottom, & less at top, the trimming in this sample seems to me to be the very reverse - The plates are all
put in right in this sample - the stamp
on cover is right - & altogether the job looks satisfactory.
I particularly want 50 copies (or 100) in a week.
Walt WhitmanCamden New Jersey
328 Mickle street
Aug: 27 1890

Mr Oldach, binder,
        Dear Sir,
                        I want you to 
make up fifty(50) sets in sheets, 
folded &c: of the big book (complete works) 
with the plates, autograph sheet, and 
every thing entire & ship-shape, & send to David McKay 23 S 9th St
-- I believe you have all the plates, 
but I think I have to send you 
from here the 50 autograph sheets.
                                              Walt Whitman.[*see notes May 13 '90*]
                           
                      Mr Oldach Binder


WALT WHITMAN,
CAMDEN,
           New Jersey.97 In Box  }
6 HLJ          }
Sample already changed

Received from Oldach
May 29,894Binderies: 1215 Filbert Street                           OFFICE OF
AND                                                                       OLDACH & CO.
114 S. Third Street.                                               BOOK BINDERS,
                                                                                 No. 1215 FILBERT STREET.

                                                                             Philadelphia, Oct 29 1890

Mr Walt Whitman
Dear Sir.
     We delivered Mr McKay
50 Walt Whitman.  sheets
as per Bill Enclosed.
if this book is to be sold
this way, it will be very
unprofitable to us to carry
the sheets, which take up
some very valuable room,
to get out a few copies now
& then. Costs us 3 or 4 times
as much as we can charge
you. if you do not intend
to Bind up any of these in
a reasonable time, we wish
you would store them
elsewhere.
Yours truly
Oldach & Co.
11/5/90
See notes

Oldach & Co:
       BookBinders
 12/5 Filbert Street
                    Philadelphia
WALT WHITMAN,
CAMDEN, 
            NEW JERSEY.328 Mickle street Camden NJ
Nov: 5 1890

Messrs : Oldach Bookbinders
       Please find bound up in the same style 
as formerly, exactly same & sort (copy herewith) 
one hundred and fifty 150 copies big book 
complete works with plates &c: & the rest the sheets, 
fold up, with plates put in all carefully 
done, & each copy neatly tied with good 
cord so as to be ready at once when wanted, 
you have there all the plates I believe. 
 I will furnish you the first sheets, for the whole with 
autograph, wh' I have here - will also furnish 
you with back labels.     Walt WhitmanOldach & Co.
Bookbinders, 
1215 Filbert Street, Philidelphia.

Mr Walt Whitman
328 Mickle Dr. 
Camden N.J.CAMDEN N.J.
Dec
8 PM[*664*]

1890 13 May  Envelope for Mr Oldach. A.MS. (1p. 7 3/4 x 13½ cm.)

Written in ink on an envelope (letterhead, lower corner, WALT 
WHITMAN, CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY.), with Traubel's notation in upper 
corner (see notes May 13 '90), 3 words:

Mr Oldach
Binder