FEINBERG/WHITMAN    NOTES and NOTEBOOKS   NOTES--Printing & Pub 1890(?) John Johnston's Photographic Plate

Includes verso letter from William F. Prosser, Sept. 18, 1890.


State of Washington,
Harbor Line Commission,
Personal
Seattle, Washington, Sept 18th 1890
Walt Whitman, Esq.
Camden, N.J.
Dear Sir,
I enclose herewith a
copy of an Address delivered by me
at the Annual Reunion of the
Pioneers of the State of Washington
In that address I took the liberty of quoting
a few appropriate stanzas from
your poem, entitled the "Pioneers" and
regretted that space did not permit
me to make use of all of them as
I wished to do. I shall be pleased
if the address referring as it does
to the early history of the settlers on
our north west coast, should afford
any interest whatever to the author
of the stirring and patriotic poem
referenced.  With best wishes for your
health and happiness. I am
very truly yours. Wm. F. Prosser

photo - Celluloid Plate
head of WW
[?]s from Dr. Johnston
Bolton, Lancashire
England

Plate herewith is 
described [on]
on celluloid & is used
in the same way as a 
glass negative



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1890 ? Note on plate (Head of WW). A.MS. (1p. 21 1/2 x 13 1/2 cm.)

Written in ink on the back of a piece of discarded lined stationery,
folded and pasted together so that reading inside cannot be
seen, 32 words:

photo--Celluloid plate head of WW
Is from Dr: Johnston
Bolton, Lancashire England
Plate herewith is described [on] on celuloid, & is used in same
way as a glass negative

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