FEINBERG/WHITMAN
BOX 45 FOLDER 5

MISCELLANY.

BUSINESS & FINANCIAL PAPERS         STOCK CERTIFICATE

Includes A.M.S. S note and letter from Robert 
Pearsall Smith, Feb. 23, 1883.THIS CERTIFICATE ENTITLES
Walt. Whitman,
NUMBER 5044     Two hundred.  Shares.    SHARES 200
CAPITAL STOCK                     400,000 SHARES
$10,000,000.                              PAR VALUE
                                                      $25 EACH.
OF THE CAPITAL STOCK OF
THE SIERRA GRANDE MINING COMPANY.
MINES LOCATED AT
LAKE VALLEY, NEW MEXICO

full paid and unassessable, transferable only on the Books of the Company in person or
by Attorney on the surrender of this Certificate.
In Testimony Whereof the said Company has caused this Certificate to be signed 
by its President and Secretary and sealed with its Common Seal.

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Philadelphia, Pa.  23rd. Feby 1883

Geo. L. Smedley, Secretary.

Benj. H. Shoemaker, President.

INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF NEW MEXICO.

KENDALL BANK NOTE CO. NEW YORK

COUNTERSIGNED AND REGISTERED BY
THE GUARANTEE TRUST & SAFE DEPOSIT CO.
THIS   24   DAY OF    FEB   1883
[?W W Gilroy???] Secy
Registrar.Know all Men by these Presents that 
I Walt Whitman 
for value received, have bargained, sold, as 
signed and transferred, and by these presents 
do bargain, sell, assign and transfer unto 
Robert Pearsall Smith 
Two hundred shares 
of the Capital Stock of 
the Sierra Bella Mining Co. 
standing in my name on the books of the said 
Company, and do hereby constitute and appoint 
Robert Pearsall Smith 
my true and lawful attorney irrevocably for me 
and in my name and stead, but to 
use, to sell, assign, transfer and set over all or 
any part of the said Stock and for that purpose 
to make and execute all necessary acts 
of assignment and transfer and one or more 
persons to substitute with like full power 
hereby ratifying and confirming all that 
the said, Attorney or his substitute 
or substitutes shall lawfully do by virtue 
hereof      In Witness Whereof I 
have hereunto set my hand and seal the 
23d day of April 1883 
Walt Whitman
Sealed and delivered 
in the presence of 
Louis A WhitmanThis certificate of Sierra Grande Mining Stock
is to be returned to Robert Peersall Smith at my death.
                   Walt Whitman
April 24, 1883.Whitall, Tatum & Co
Glass Manufacturers
Nos. 410 & 412 RACE ST.
P.O. Box P.

Philadelphia 2,Mo 23 1883

Walt Whitman
Camden N.J.

My dear friend
   I claim the privileges of the 
name I claim of you - a friend - in sharing 
with you the means which have come to me 
in silver mining.  I send certificate of stock 
of 200 shares of the Sierra Grande Mining
Company made out in your name.  So far 
very regular dividends of twenty five cents per share 
per month have been made to the shareholders, but 
whether they will continue for twelve months only 
or for a course of years, none can say.  The 
Experts predict a long course of years.  In any 
case you will receive from the Treasurer by mail, 
sent about the first of each month, a cheque for 
fifty dollars till the mine shall work out.
    As it is a personal matter between our two 
selves, you will kindly, as you proposed, devise 
it back to me in the final disposition of your 
means - may the which be in a far distant 
future!
     And may its use prove of as much pleasure
to you as it gives me to ask[ing] to place the income 
at your disposal.
Yours faithfully
R. Pearsall SmithPOSTAL CARD
PHILADELPHIA PA
MAR 24 83
1 PM

NOTHING BUT THE ADDRESS CAN BE PLACED ON THIS SIDE

Walt Whitman
431 Stevens St
Camden
   N.J.

Camden N.J.
MAR 24 4 PM 
RECDTHE SIERRA GRANDE MINING COMPANY
                         OF
LAKE VALLEY, NEW MEXICO.

TRANSFER OFFICE,
  18 EXCHANGE BUILDING.
Philadelphia, March 20th, 1883.

DIVIDEND No. 6.
   The Board of Directors have this day declared a dividend
(Number 6) of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), being 
twenty-five cents per share, payable at the Transfer Office of the 
Company on and after April 2d, 1883, to the stockholders then 
of record.  Transfer books close on March 24th, at 3 P.M. and 
reopen April 3d, at 10 A.M.
By order
BENJAMIN H. SHOEMAKER
PRESIDENT.

Attest: - GEO. L. SMEDLEY, Sec.Walt Whitman Fellowship: International
PRESIDENT:
DANIEL G. BRINTON.

VICE-PRSESIDENTS:
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL,           THOMAS B. HARNED,
JOHN BURROUGHS,                  FRANCIS HOWARD WILLIAMS
RICHARD MAURICE BUCKE,      ISAAC HULL PLATT.
COUNCIL:
CHARLES G. GARRISON,             MRS. L.N. FAIRCHILD,
HORACE L TRAUBEL,                  MISS CHARLOTTE PORTER,
JOHN H. JOHNSTON                    HENRY  L. BONSALL,
FRANK H. MACINTIRE                  WAYLAND HYATT SMITH,
THOMAS EARLE WHITE,               JOSEPH FELS.

Horace L. Traubel, Secretary and Treasurer,
Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Mar 9 1895
Among the last of [that]
Walt's letters which I
sorted [x] the other day
I found the enclosed.
Shall I return it to
Smith?
H. L. T.
Return to Mr. Smith,
It has no value