Feinberg/Whitman  Notes and Notebooks Notes--Reference Undated  Literature as a Creative Power 
Box 42 Folder 72  (Conversations) 
Includes verso letter from Jugersoll Lockwood, undated.

440
? May Conversations: notes. A.MS. (1p. 26 1/2 x 21 cm.)

Written in pencil on the back of a discarded letter ('May [cor-
ner containing rest of date missing] Mr Walt Whitman My dear 
Sir: In the July issue of the Bookmaker of which I send you two 
copies, we purpose publishing  a very fine pen and ink head of 
you, specially made for us by Mr. Frank Fowler the well-known
artist, with a sketch of your life. Will you be kind enough to 
write on the enclosed card a few words about books which I will 
place under your portrait in facsimile. I shall take pleasure 
in sending you copies for your friends. Yrs very truly Ingersoll 
Lockwood), 30 words: 

"Yes," said W.W. " [I should] one might consider literature 
in its high sense--the best books-- a second manifestation of the 
Creative Powers: as Nature is the first.--Conversations & c. 

(The letterhead reads: The American Bookmaker: A Journal of 
Technical Art and Information...Howard Lockwood & Co., Publishers, 
126 and 128 Duane Street, New York.)

The American Bookmaker. 
A Journal of Technical Art and Information, 
For Publishers, Printers, Lithographers, Bookbinders, 
Blank-Book Manufacturers, and all others con-
nected with or interested in Bookmaking

HOWARD LOCKWOOD & CO., PUBLISHERS
126 and 128 Duane Street, New York.

Ma[?]
Mr. Walt Whitman
My dear Sir: In the July issue
of the Bookmaker of which I 
send you two copies we propose
publishing a very fine pen and 
ink head of you, specially made
for us by Mr. Frank Fowler
the well known artist, with a
sketch of your life. 
Will you be the kind enough to 
write on the enclosed card a
few words about books which


"yes" said W.W." [I should] one might consider literature
in its high sense--the best books-- a second manifest-
ation of the Creative Power; as Nature in the first
Conversations VC. 

I will place under
your portrait in fac
simile. 

I shall take pleasure 
in securing you copies
for your friends. 
Yrs very truly
Ingersoll Lockwood

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